Longest-tenured FCS coaches as of 2017

[bonarae]

Some of the longest-tenured coaches are in the Ivies... xcoffeex

http://www.fcs.football/cfb/story.asp?i=20170524112746913438004&ref=hea&tm=&src=FCS


Longest-Tenured FCS Coaches

Jimmye Laycock (William & Mary), 38th season - 243-180-2 record
Mike Ayers (Wofford), 30th season - 197-136-1 at Wofford; 208-157-2 overall
Jim Parady (Marist), 26th season - 129-132-1
Kevin Callahan (Monmouth), 25th season - 135-115
Tim Murphy (Harvard), 24th season - 163-66 at Harvard; 195-111-1 overall
John Stiegelmeier (South Dakota State), 21st season - 137-94
Phil Estes (Brown), 20th season - 112-77
Jerome Souers (Northern Arizona), 20th season - 112-103
Sean McDonnell (New Hampshire), 19th season - 141-83
Buddy Teevens (Dartmouth), 18th season - 79-89-2 at Dartmouth; 113-166-2 overall

[cx500d]

Wow, 2 people on the list with losing records.


Some of the longest-tenured coaches are in the Ivies... xcoffeex

http://www.fcs.football/cfb/story.asp?i=20170524112746913438004&ref=hea&tm=&src=FCS

[caribbeanhen]

Wow, 2 people on the list with losing records.

Marist and Dartmouth ..... there probably not to worried about it in those parts

[The Cats]

Mike Ayers at Wofford has 30 years

Record
196–135–1

[GodHelpTheBears]

Marist and Dartmouth ..... there probably not to worried about it in those parts

Buddy Teevens...now that's a name I've not heard in a long time, and I only knew of it because he was at Stanford when Fox Sports Midwest would air crappy late Saturday Pac-10 games.

[Go Green]

Marist and Dartmouth ..... there probably not to worried about it in those parts

Not sure about Marist, but Teevens' overall record is lousy because he kept on taking over crappy programs (Maine, Dartmouth I, Tulane, Stanford, Dartmouth II). Every place except Stanford, he left the program better than where he found it.

And even at Stanford, there were some extenuating circumstances. http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/HIGHER-STANDARDS-Stanford-teams-finding-it-s-2589894.php

(Yes, Harbaugh improved Stanford by leaps and bounds--but Stanford had fired the admissions director and replaced her with someone more football-friendly).

[ngineer]

Losing records can be very deceiving. Lehigh's Fred Dunlap inherited the worst football program in the country in 1965 and it took him until 1969 to get a a four win season. After five seasons he was like 9-37-1. He left Lehigh after the 1975 season to become HC and AD at his alma mater, Colgate, who had suffered a rough patch. He left Lehigh with a 49-62-2 (going 40-25-1) after having turned around the program. He turned Colgate's program around, too, almost overnight and was named the national Walter Camp Man of the Year after the 1977 season. IMO, Fred was the greatest coach in Lehigh's long history, but from his record, alone, you would never know it.

[Gil Dobie]

Shows how tough it is to win a championship.

[KPSUL]

Tim Murphy from Harvard has the best winning percentage of any of these long serving FCS coaches, but due to playing no playoff games and the easiest OOC schedule in FCS football, I think I'll put a couple of asterisks after his name **.

[walliver]

Mike Ayers has actually completed 29 years at Wofford and will be starting his 30th this fall. Although one of those three decades was at the NAIA and D2 level, he did leave an FCS head coaching job (ETSU) to return to Wofford in 1987.

Of the people on the list, he is probably the only one who fought with the Marines in Viet Nam and has a black belt in karate.

[mvemjsunpx]

Fun fact: including his stint at Montana, Jerome Souers will be starting his 32nd. consecutive season as some sort of coach in the Big Sky.

[Hammerhead]

Shows how tough it is to win a championship.

Or how hard it is to be consistently above .500 over decades.

[walliver]

Or how hard it is to be consistently above .500 over decades.

Good coaches can accomplish that. On the other hand, being a consistent winner year after year usually results in a bigger more lucrative job, and therefore short tenures.

For example, how many here think Mike Houston will have a long tenure at JMU?

[Daytripper]

Good coaches can accomplish that. On the other hand, being a consistent winner year after year usually results in a bigger more lucrative job, and therefore short tenures.

For example, how many here think Mike Houston will have a long tenure at JMU?

If JMU makes a another deep run, he's gone after this year.