A part of The Analyst’s FCS school soccer sequence referred to as “By the Numbers,” which analyzes knowledge to assist inform the story of the Soccer Championship Subdivision.
With all of the retirements of FCS school soccer teaching legends which have come lately – and even in current months – it begs the query: What energetic coaches are actually the leaders for profession wins within the NCAA’s Division I subdivision?
Tim Murphy, as an example, had hit the 200-win mark at Harvard since returning to the extent in 1994 after 5 seasons teaching within the FBS at Cincinnati (he additionally had been at Maine within the late Nineteen Eighties). However after main the Crimson to an 8-2 document and a share of the Ivy League title final fall, he wrapped up his profession with 215 FCS wins. (Full listing of 2023-24 FCS head teaching modifications)
That opened the FCS profession wins leaderboard going into the 2024 season. The coaches on it could want longevity, after all, and the brand new prime 10 options simply that – in actual fact, Monmouth’s Kevin Callahan tops the listing and is the longest-tenured head coach within the subdivision following Jim Parady’s retirement at Marist after the 2023 season.
It should be famous among the many gifted coaches on the FCS stage, one who could be on this listing if not for tragedy is Dartmouth’s Buddy Teevens. He died final September as the results of accidents sustained in a bicycle accident earlier within the yr.
Teevens led Dartmouth to 117 wins and 5 Ivy League titles throughout his two stints on the faculty. He additionally hung out as an FBS head coach at Stanford and Tulane, however should you knew Teevens, you knew his coronary heart was with Dartmouth and the Soccer Championship Subdivision when it got here to soccer.
The coaches who’ve chosen to spend most or all of their careers within the FCS have made much less cash with much less highlight, however have discovered great success and training satisfaction whereas impacting hundreds of lives.
The next 10 school soccer coaches have mixed for greater than 1,300 FCS victories because the subdivision’s energetic leaders (FCS-level wins solely):
Lively Coaches With Most FCS Profession Wins (NCAA FCS Degree-Solely)
1. Kevin Callahan (182 Wins)
FCS Report: 182-142 (31 seasons)
FCS Faculty: Monmouth (1993-present)
The Skinny: Callahan is the one head soccer coach this New Jersey faculty has ever identified since its program’s begin in 1993 with an FCS (then Division I-AA) non-scholarship season. However it didn’t take lengthy earlier than the Hawks gained their first convention title (Northeast) in ‘96.
The most effective season in Monmouth historical past occurred in 2019 with a Huge South championship, an FCS playoff win within the first spherical and a No. 12 remaining nationwide rating within the Stats Carry out High 25 Ballot. The Hawks now play within the Coastal Athletic Affiliation.
2. Mark Farley (180 Wins)
FCS Report: 180-103 (23 seasons)
FCS Faculty: Northern Iowa (2001-present)
The Skinny: Farley, born in Iowa, has been on the UNI campus for a lot of the previous 40 years. As a participant within the mid-Nineteen Eighties, he began at inside linebacker and led the workforce in tackles as a junior and senior. The second his enjoying profession wrapped up, he was added to the teaching workers as a grad assistant, then because the linebackers coach, and spent the subsequent 10 years there till Kansas got here calling within the late Nineties.
Since returning to UNI as head coach, he’s guided 13 FCS playoff appearances and 19 successful seasons, fairly an accomplishment for a program that performs within the rough-and-tumble Missouri Valley Soccer Convention.
3. Greg Gattuso (147 Wins)
FCS Report: 147-93 (22 seasons)
FCS Faculties: UAlbany (2014-present) and Duquesne (1993-2004)
The Skinny: Gattuso performed at Penn State for Joe Paterno, and whereas he has had some memorable stints as an assistant coach at Pittsburgh and Maryland, he appears to have a coronary heart for the smaller faculty campuses. His first FCS stint was at Duquesne, the place his Dukes gained greater than 75% of their video games.
After a 10-year hiatus from the subdivision, he returned at UAlbany in time for the Nice Danes’ transfer into the CAA.
For the document, sure, the Gattuso household owns Nice Danes as pet Ok-9s.
4. Bobby Hauck (129 Wins)
FCS Report: 129-36 (13 seasons)
FCS Faculty: Montana (2003-2009, 2018-present)
The thin: Hauck is the Huge Sky Convention’s winningest coach, and his return to Montana virtually instantly re-introduced the Grizzles again into the nationwide championship dialogue. In his first stint, he led them to 80 wins and a convention title and playoff look in every of his seven seasons from 2003-09. (The Griz have been the winningest FCS program in the course of the 2000s decade.)
In 2023, he once more led Montana to the Huge Sky championship in addition to a 13-2 document and a nationwide runner-up end to South Dakota State.
Along with being among the many FCS profession wins leaders, his successful share of 78.2 is clearly tops among the many candidates with five-plus seasons at one faculty.
5. Danny Rocco (126 Wins)
FCS Report: 126-71-0 (17 seasons)
FCS Faculties: VMI (2023-present), Delaware (2017-2021), Richmond (2012-2016) and Liberty (2006-2011)
The Skinny: Rocco has been a constant winner: He gained 4 Huge South titles at Liberty and took Richmond (3 times) and Delaware (twice) to the FCS playoffs. Final fall, in his first season at VMI – a program that solely just lately has risen from being one of many harder locations to win video games – his workforce was just a few factors away from a successful season (the Keydets completed 5-6).
Rocco additionally has been an assistant within the NFL and at FBS applications that embody Penn State, Virginia, Maryland, Texas and Boston School.
The Subsequent Tier
6. Jerry Schmitt, Duquesne (120-64, 19 seasons – 2005-present)
7. Jason Simpson, UT Martin (115-87, 18 seasons – 2006-present)
8. Chris Hatcher, Samford/Murray State/Georgia Southern (102-88, 17 seasons – 2007-present)
T9. Brock Spack, Illinois State (101-70, 15 seasons – 2009-present)
T9. Russ Huesman, Richmond/Chattanooga (101-70, 15 seasons – 2009-present)
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