List of current NCAA Division I FCS football coaches

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (I FCS) includes 128 teams. Each team has one head coach.[1] Division I FCS is composed of 14 conferences: Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), Ivy League, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC), Northeast Conference (NEC), Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), Patriot League, Pioneer Football League, Southern Conference (Southern, or SoCon), Southland Conference, Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), and Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The WAC offered football again in the 2021 season but at the FCS level and the 15th, the ASUN Conference, is expected to launch its football league in 2022.

In the 2021 season, all schools including St. Thomas (MN) are members of one of these conferences. St. Thomas left Division III after its expulsion from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, announced in 2019, took effect and joined the Pioneer Football League after successfully receiving a waiver for a direct move to Division I in 2020.

As of the start of the 2021 season, the longest-tenured coaches in Division I FCS are Kevin Callahan of Monmouth and Jim Parady of Marist, who have been head coaches at their respective schools since 1992. In all, five FCS programs had new head coaches in 2021.

Conference affiliations are current for the ongoing 2021 season.

Coaches[]

School Conference Head coach First season Offensive coordinator(s) Defensive coordinator(s) Special teams coordinator(s)
Cal Poly Big Sky Beau Baldwin 2020 J. C. Sherritt
Eastern Washington Big Sky Aaron Best 2017 Vacant Vacant
Idaho Big Sky Vacant Vacant Vacant
Idaho State Big Sky Charlie Ragle Vacant
Montana Big Sky Bobby Hauck 2018 Timm Rosenbach Kent Baer Bobby Hauck
Montana State Big Sky Brent Vigen 2020 Vacant
Northern Arizona Big Sky Chris Ball 2019 Jerry Partridge
Northern Colorado Big Sky Ed McCaffrey 2020 Vacant
Portland State Big Sky Bruce Barnum 2015
Sacramento State Big Sky Troy Taylor 2019 Troy Taylor
Southern Utah Big Sky Vacant Vacant Vacant
UC Davis Big Sky Dan Hawkins 2017 Cody Hawkins
Weber State Big Sky Jay Hill 2014 Jay Hill Vacant
Campbell Big South Mike Minter 2013 Vacant
Charleston Southern Big South Autry Denson 2019 Greg Moss
Gardner–Webb Big South Tre Lamb 2020 Tre Lamb
Hampton Big South Robert Prunty 2018 Vacant
Kennesaw State Big South[a] Brian Bohannon 2015 Danny Verpaele Vacant
Monmouth Big South Kevin Callahan 1993
North Alabama Big South[a] Chris Willis 2016 Ryan Held
North Carolina A&T Big South Sam Washington 2018 Vacant
Albany Colonial Greg Gattuso 2014 Vacant Joe Bernard Vacant
Delaware Colonial Ryan Carty Vacant Manny Rojas Vacant
Elon Colonial Tony Trisciani 2019 Vacant
Maine Colonial Jordan Stevens Vacant Vacant Vacant
New Hampshire Colonial Ricky Santos Vacant Vacant Vacant
Rhode Island Colonial Jim Fleming 2014
Richmond Colonial Russ Huesman 2017
Stony Brook Colonial Chuck Priore 2006 / Vacant
Towson Colonial Rob Ambrose 2009 Rob Ambrose
Villanova Colonial Mark Ferrante 2017
William & Mary Colonial Mike London 2019 Vincent Brown Vacant
Brown Ivy James Perry 2019
Columbia Ivy Al Bagnoli 2015
Cornell Ivy David Archer 2013
Dartmouth Ivy Buddy Teevens 2005 Kevin Daft
Harvard Ivy Tim Murphy 1994
Penn Ivy Ray Priore 2015 Vacant Bob Benson Vacant
Princeton Ivy Bob Surace 2010
Yale Ivy Tony Reno 2012
Delaware State MEAC Rod Milstead 2018 Vacant
Howard MEAC Larry Scott 2020 Lee Hull
Morgan State MEAC Tyrone Wheatley 2019 / Jerome Smith
Norfolk State MEAC Dawson Odums 2021 Vincent Marshall
North Carolina Central MEAC Trei Oliver 2019 Vacant
South Carolina State MEAC Oliver Pough Steve Bird
Illinois State MVFC Brock Spack 2009 / Kye Stewart
Indiana State MVFC Curt Mallory 2017 Kevin Abrams
Missouri State MVFC Bobby Petrino 2020 / Ronnie Fouch
North Dakota MVFC Kyle Schweigert 2014
North Dakota State MVFC Matt Entz 2019 Tyler Roehl
Northern Iowa MVFC Mark Farley 2001 Ryan Mahaffey Vacant
South Dakota MVFC Bob Nielson 2016
South Dakota State MVFC John Stiegelmeier Vacant /
Southern Illinois MVFC Nick Hill 2016 Vacant
Western Illinois MVFC Myers Hendrickson Vacant Vacant Vacant
Youngstown State MVFC Doug Phillips Vacant
Bryant NEC Chris Merritt 2019 Vacant
Central Connecticut NEC Ryan McCarthy 2019
Duquesne NEC Jerry Schmitt Dave Opfar
LIU NEC Jonathan Gill 2021 Jim Cordle
Merrimack NEC Dan Curran Dan Curran None
Robert Morris Big South Bernard Clark 2018
Sacred Heart NEC Mark Nofri 2012
Saint Francis NEC Chris Villarrial 2010
Wagner NEC Tom Masella 2020 Darrell Wilson
Austin Peay OVC Scotty Walden 2020 / / Akeem Davis / Vacant
Eastern Illinois OVC Adam Cushing 2019 /
Murray State OVC Dean Hood 2020
Southeast Missouri State OVC Tom Matukewicz 2014
Tennessee State OVC Eddie George 2021 Vacant Vacant
Tennessee Tech OVC Dewayne Alexander 2018 /
UT Martin OVC Jason Simpson /
Bucknell Patriot Dave Cecchini 2019 Isaac Collins
Colgate Patriot Stan Dakosty 2021 / Paul Shaffner
Fordham Patriot Joe Conlin 2018
Georgetown Patriot Rob Sgarlata 2014 Rob Spence Kevin Doherty
Holy Cross Patriot Bob Chesney 2018 Justin Roper
Lafayette Patriot John Troxell Vacant Vacant Vacant
Lehigh Patriot Tom Gilmore 2019
Butler Pioneer Vacant Vacant Vacant
Davidson Pioneer Scott Abell 2018 Scott Abell
Dayton Pioneer Rick Chamberlin Vacant
Drake Pioneer Todd Stepsis 2019 /
Marist Pioneer Jim Parady
Morehead State Pioneer Rob Tenyer 2013 Rob Tenyer
Presbyterian Pioneer Vacant Vacant Vacant Vacant
St. Thomas Pioneer Glenn Caruso
San Diego Pioneer Dale Lindsey 2013
Stetson Pioneer 2021 Vacant
Valparaiso Pioneer Landon Fox 2019
Chattanooga Southern Rusty Wright 2019 Lorenzo Ward Mike Yeager
The Citadel Southern Brent Thompson 2016 Vacant
East Tennessee State Southern Vacant Vacant Vacant
Furman Southern Clay Hendrix 2017 Vacant
Mercer Southern Drew Cronic 2020 /
Samford Southern Chris Hatcher 2015 Mitch Stewart
VMI Southern Scott Wachenheim 2015
Western Carolina Southern Kerwin Bell 2021 Vacant
Wofford Southern Josh Conklin 2018 /
Houston Baptist Southland Vic Shealy 2013 /
Incarnate Word Southland G.J. Kinne Vacant Vacant Vacant
McNeese State Southland Gary Goff Vacant Vacant Vacant
Nicholls Southland Tim Rebowe 2015 Vacant
Northwestern State Southland Brad Laird 2018 Vacant Vacant
Southeastern Louisiana Southland Frank Scelfo 2018
Alabama A&M SWAC Connell Maynor 2018 Granville Eastman Vacant
Alabama State SWAC Eddie Robinson Vacant Vacant Vacant
Alcorn State SWAC Fred McNair 2016 Vacant
Arkansas–Pine Bluff SWAC Doc Gamble 2020 Don Treadwell Vacant
Bethune-Cookman SWAC Terry Sims 2015
Florida A&M SWAC Willie Simmons 2018 / Ryan Stanchek / James Spady
Grambling State SWAC Hue Jackson Vacant Vacant
Jackson State SWAC Deion Sanders 2020 / Jason Phillips Dennis Thurman Alan Ricard
Mississippi Valley State SWAC Vincent Dancy 2018
Prairie View A&M SWAC Vacant Vacant Vacant Vacant
Southern SWAC Eric Dooley Vacant
Texas Southern SWAC Clarence McKinney 2019
Abilene Christian WAC Keith Patterson Vacant Vacant Vacant
Central Arkansas WAC[a] Nathan Brown 2018 Ken Collums
Dixie State WAC Paul Peterson 2019
Eastern Kentucky WAC[a] Walt Wells 2020 /
Jacksonville State WAC[a] Rich Rodriguez Calvin Magee Vacant Vacant
Lamar WAC Blane Morgan 2020 / Vacant
Sam Houston State WAC K. C. Keeler 2014 Vacant
Stephen F. Austin WAC Colby Carthel 2019 Vacant Don Carthel
Tarleton State WAC Todd Whitten / Jonathan Beasley

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Moving to ASUN, after starting its football sponsorship, in 2022.

References[]

  1. ^ Theismann, Joe; Tarcy, Brian (2001). "Chapter 5: Coaching: Win, Get Fired, or Go on TV". The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football (2nd ed.). Indianapolis, Indiana: Alpha Books. p. 57. ISBN 0-02-864167-1. Retrieved May 10, 2010.
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