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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=2902665

  The ascent of Major Applewhite's college football coaching career has been rocketlike in speed, if not direction. At 28, only six seasons removed from setting nearly every career passing record in the Texas record book, Applewhite has ascended to the position of offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Alabama.