A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of – Glenn Caruso
Consider this. Glenn Caruso was named head coach at the University of St. Thomas on January 24, 2008. He took over a team that finished 2-8 the previous season. In his first year, Caruso led St. Thomas to a 7-3…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Colorado State-Pueblo’s John Wristen
When John Wristen returned to his alma mater to become head coach at Colorado State-Pueblo in 2007, he was charged with restarting a program that had been discontinued in 1984. In the course of just over a year, he had…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: Willie Fritz
During Willie Fritz’s first pre-season camp at Sam Houston State in 2010, he handed each player a T-shirt with ‘Opportunity Is Now Here’ printed across the front. The Bearkats then completed a 6-5 season that fall. After attending the FCS…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Steve Specht
When Steve Specht was a senior at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 1985, one of the assistant coaches on the staff was Urban Meyer. More than 25 years later, Meyer has won two National Championships while at Florida…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Mike Drass
The motto of Wesley College, a small Division III school with an enrollment of 1,500 undergraduates, is ‘Great Things Await.’ That is certainly true when it comes to the Wesley football program. Head Coach Mike Drass has built the Wolverines…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Bob Nielson
How about this for results – two NCAA Division II National Championships, four Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference titles, three perfect 11-0 seasons and a .790 winning percentage. This is what Bob Nielson, the head coach at the University of Minnesota-Duluth,…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Nick Bobeck
Navarro Junior College lost their first game of the regular season last fall, 16-10, to Butler Community College. The Butler Grizzlies went wire-to-wire as the #1 team among junior colleges leading up to the NJCAA championship game. Their opponent –…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Pete Fredenburg
Coach Pete Fredenburg has been the only coach the Crusaders of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor have ever had. After starting the UMHB in 1998, it took Fredenburg just four years to take his team to the NCAA Division III…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Mike White
Mike White has been coaching at his alma mater – Albany State College in Georgia – since 1997. His philosophy towards football can be summed up in one word: defense. After becoming head coach of the Rams in 2000, White’s…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Al Bagnoli
Al Bagnoli played three years of varsity football at Central Connecticut State, graduating in 1975. He went on to pursue his Master’s Degree at the University of Albany and worked the 1975 season as a graduate assistant. He was promoted…