Coaching Change Thread (2024-25)

[Mvemjsunpx]

Mark Farley will retire at Northern Iowa after 24 seasons when this year concludes. His record with the Panthers stands at 181-109 with 2 games remaining. Farley won double-digit games in 7 of his first 11 seasons (including a title-game appearance in 2005), but only once since (2019). He also hasn't won more than 6 games in a season since COVID started.

https://www.kcci.com/article/uni-head-c ... s/62863039

[Mvemjsunpx]

Changes

Alabama A&M - Connell Maynor -------->
Butler - Mike Uremovich --------> Kevin Lynch
Colgate - Stan Dakosty --------> Curt Fitzpatrick
Davidson - Scott Abell --------> Saj Thakkar
Delaware St. - Lee Hull -------->
Drake - Todd Stepsis --------> Joe Woodley
East Tennessee St. - Tre Lamb --------> Will Healy
Idaho - Jason Eck --------> Thomas Ford
McNeese St. - Gary Goff --------> Matt Viator
Mississippi Valley St. - Kendrick Wade -------->
Nicholls St. - Tim Rebowe --------> Tommy Rybacki
Norfolk St. - Dawson Odums --------> Michael Vick
North Carolina A&T - Vincent Brown --------> Shawn Gibbs
North Dakota - Kyle "Bubba" Schweigert --------> Eric Schmidt
Northern Iowa - Mark Farley --------> Todd Stepsis
Prairie View A&M - Bubba McDowell --------> Tremaine Jackson
Sacramento St. - Andy Thompson --------> Brennan Marion
Stetson - Brian Young --------> Mike Jasper
Valparaiso - Landon Fox --------> Andy Waddle






Italic - denotes interim coach (offseason-only interims won't be included)

[kalm]

Mark Farley will retire at Northern Iowa after 24 seasons when this year concludes. His record with the Panthers stands at 181-109 with 2 games remaining. Farley won double-digit games in 7 of his first 11 seasons (including a title-game appearance in 2005), but only once since (2019). He also hasn't won more than 6 games in a season since COVID started.

https://www.kcci.com/article/uni-head-c ... s/62863039

And a collective sigh from ‘88, Clenz, Fiver and all the rest.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Fox went 21-42 in 6 years and only went over .500 in Spring '21.

https://valpoathletics.com/news/2024/11 ... ogram.aspx

[JALMOND]

McNeese head coach Gary Goff let go today.

https://mcneesesports.com/news/2024/11/ ... hange.aspx

[bonarae]

Bubba McDowell out at Prairie View.

https://hbcusports.com/2024/11/24/repor ... all-coach/

[Mvemjsunpx]

Abell is taking the head coach job at Rice. He went 47-28 in 7 seasons with the Wildcats after his predecessor went 7-43. Davidson won the Pioneer twice and made the playoffs 3 times under Abell (Spring '21, 2021, 2022).

https://davidsonwildcats.com/news/2024/ ... university

[Mvemjsunpx]

Odums went 63-32 at Southern, but he couldn't replicate that success with the Spartans (15-31).

https://nsuspartans.com/news/2024/11/26 ... rship.aspx

[Mvemjsunpx]

Unclear how voluntary this is, but he'll become an Associate AD. Schweigert went 66-57 in 11 seasons in Grand Forks. He shared the Big Sky title in 2016 and had 5 playoff appearances. Schweigert's teams only went 1-5 in those postseason contests, however.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports ... ball-coach

[bonarae]

Colgate: Stan Dakosty is out.

https://colgateathletics.com/news/2024/ ... rship.aspx

Alabama A&M: Connell Maynor also out.

McNeese: Matt Viator is coming back.

https://www.americanpress.com/2024/12/0 ... o-cowboys/

[Mvemjsunpx]

Rebowe went 57-56 in 10 seasons with the Colonels. That record isn't impressive on the surface, but it was vast turnaround from the 10-47 mark they had over the previous 5 seasons. Under Rebowe, Nicholls won 3 Southland titles, they went to the playoffs 4 times, and they had 2 first-round wins.

DC Tommy Rybacki has been promoted to head coach with Rebowe out.


https://geauxcolonels.com/news/2024/12/ ... coach.aspx

[bonarae]

UNI poaches Drake's HC Todd Stepsis.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story ... 739995007/

[Mvemjsunpx]

Young resigned after going 13-30 in 4 seasons with the Hatters.

https://gohatters.com/news/2024/12/3/yo ... coach.aspx

[Mvemjsunpx]

They also fired the AD. Hull went 2-21 in 2 seasons with the Hornets.

https://www.wdel.com/news/delaware-stat ... 90d57.html

[bonarae]

Uremovich was hired by Ball State after a 23-11 record at Butler.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... head-coach

[bonarae]

MVSU: Kendrick Wade is out.

https://footballscoop.com/news/source-m ... drick-wade

[Mvemjsunpx]

Brown won exactly 1 game in each of his 2 years after the Aggies had gone no worse than 5-6 in their previous 11 seasons.

https://ncataggies.com/news/2024/12/4/f ... chane.aspx

[JALMOND]

Meanwhile, at Portland State...

[Mvemjsunpx]

Meanwhile, at Portland State...

I hear PSU is officially changing their name from the "Vikings" to the "Portland State Barneyballers."

[kalm]

Meanwhile, at Portland State...

Meanwhile, in Cheney…

[kalm]

[JALMOND]

Football Scoop says he is heading to Stanford to reunite with Troy Taylor.

https://footballscoop.com/news/sources- ... ento-state

[kalm]

Football Scoop says he is heading to Stanford to reunite with Troy Taylor.

https://footballscoop.com/news/sources- ... ento-state

Makes sense. Massive pay raise even if he’s a position coach.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Meanwhile, at Portland State...

Meanwhile, in Cheney…

EWU already said they were sticking with Best, right?

[kalm]

Meanwhile, in Cheney…

EWU already said they were sticking with Best, right?

Reported in the Spokesman that his contract was extended two years without public announcement before previous AD Lynn Hickey retired. It took a public records request to get the details and facts.

Nice parting shot.

$250,000 to buy out both years. He’s likely staying unless a well heeled donor forks it up. Tougher to raise half of the $25 million for the approved stadium renovation without some new life breathed into performance on the field.

Oh well. Welcome to Cheney.