List of Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks head football coaches

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 to symbols in coaches list
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

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List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 5]
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

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  1. ^ 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]
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[2]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[3]
  5. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Louisiana-Monroe did not join a conference until 1953 and was an independent from 1971 through 1981 and from 1996 through 2000.

References

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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
  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.