The Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football program is a college football team that represents the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) in the NCAA's Sun Belt Conference. The Warhawks have played 758 games during 69 seasons of senior college football. ULM has had 15 head coaches since its first season of senior college football in 1951 at what was then known as Northeast Louisiana State College with the nickname Indians.
Pat Collins is the program's all-time leader in games coached (92), years coached (8), and wins (57) while leading the Indians to two Southland Conference championships and one national championship in what is now the Football Championship Subdivision. Only two other head coaches, Dave Roberts and Charlie Weatherbie, have led the program to conference titles. Roberts remains the team's all-time leader in winning percentage (.661). In terms of winning percentage, the least successful coach in program history was Bobby Keasler, with a record of 8-28 (.222) over four seasons. Todd Berry is the only coach to lead the Warhawks to a winning season and a postseason bowl in the Football Bowl Subdivision. In 2012, Berry's Warhawks finished the season 8–5 and were invited to the Independence Bowl, where they were defeated by Ohio.
Only one coach in program history has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. John David Crow, who was an All-American halfback and Heisman Award winner at Texas A&M University, was inducted as a player in 1976. No ULM coach has received National Coach of the Year honors.
The current coach is Bryant Vincent, who was hired in December 2023.
Key
edit| General | Overall | Conference | Postseason[A 1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Order of coaches[A 2] | GC | Games coached | CW | Conference wins | PW | Postseason wins |
| DC | Division championships | OW | Overall wins | CL | Conference losses | PL | Postseason losses |
| CC | Conference championships | OL | Overall losses | CT | Conference ties | PT | Postseason ties |
| NC | National championships | OT | Overall ties[A 3] | C% | Conference winning percentage | ||
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage[A 4] | ||||
Coaches
edit| No. [A 6] |
Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW [A 7] |
CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | CCs | NCs | National awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James L. Malone | 1951–1953 | 27 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 0.444 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Devone Payne | 1954–1957 | 38 | 15 | 22 | 1 | 0.408 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Jack C. Rowan | 1958–1963 | 57 | 20 | 37 | 0 | 0.351 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Dixie B. White | 1964–1971 | 77 | 31 | 45 | 1 | 0.409 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Ollie Keller | 1972–1975 | 41 | 14 | 24 | 3 | 0.378 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | John David Crow | 1976–1980 | 55 | 20 | 34 | 1 | 0.373 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Pat Collins | 1981–1988 | 92 | 57 | 35 | 0 | 0.620 | 26 | 14 | 0 | 0.650 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — |
| 8 | Dave Roberts | 1989–1993 | 59 | 38 | 19 | 2 | 0.661 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 0.758 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | — | — |
| 9 | Ed Zaunbrecher | 1994–1998 | 56 | 20 | 36 | 0 | 0.357 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Bobby Keasler | 1999–2002 | 36 | 8 | 28 | — | 0.222 | 2 | 4 | — | 0.333 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Mike Collins | 2002 | 9 | 3 | 6 | — | 0.333 | 2 | 4 | — | 0.333 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Charlie Weatherbie | 2003–2009 | 82 | 31 | 51 | — | 0.378 | 24 | 24 | — | 0.500 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| 13 | Todd Berry | 2010–2015 | 71 | 28 | 43 | — | 0.394 | 20 | 25 | — | 0.444 | 0 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Matt Viator | 2016–2020 | 58 | 19 | 39 | — | 0.328 | 15 | 24 | — | 0.385 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Terry Bowden | 2021–2023 | 36 | 10 | 26 | — | 0.278 | 5 | 19 | — | 0.208 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Bryant Vincent | 2024- |
Notes
edit- ^ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[1]
- ^ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
- ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[2]
- ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[3]
- ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
- ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Warhawks. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is counted only once.
- ^ Louisiana-Monroe did not join a conference until 1953 and was an independent from 1971 through 1981 and from 1996 through 2000.
References
edit- General
- "Louisiana-Monroe Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 19, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
- "Sun Belt Conference Standings". ESPN.com. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
- MacCambridge, Michael, ed. (2005). "Louisiana-Monroe". ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. pp. 442–445. ISBN 978-1-4013-3703-2.
- "2009 Southland Conference Football Guide". Southland Conference. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
- Specific
- ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
- ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.