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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Former FAU head coach Carl Pelini lost 15 of his 20 games in his two years at the school. (Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Former Florida Atlantic head football coach Carl Pelini said during a radio interview that his firing was unjustified and the result of a new athletic director wanting\u00A0to hire his own football coach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pelini went 5-15 over two seasons with the school when he resigned in October after\u00A0athletic director Pat Chun confronted him and defensive coordinator Pete Rekstis about reports of their alleged illegal drug use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"There is nothing I did there that I'm embarrassed about. I'm proud of what we accomplished,\" Pelini said on KFAB, via the Associated Press.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pelini, who was a former defensive coordinator at Nebraska, denied using drugs and was fired in November after his resignation withdrawal request was granted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Florida Atlantic, now coached by Charlie Partridge, opens the season against Nebraska on Aug. 30.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ELLIS: NCAA recommends change to hardship waiver policy&lt;/strong&gt;\"Ultimately, I think it boiled down to an athletic director who didn't hire me,\" Pelini said. \"We were making improvements. He came down there from Ohio State. He was their No. 1 fundraiser and made a lot of promises about money he was going to raise and changes we were going to make facilities-wise. He was not having a lot of success and we were growing as a football program. I think he wanted to hitch his reins to a new horse and get some credit for it and wanted to make a change.\"&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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