Presbyterian Hires New Head Coach

[acbearkat]

According to Football Scoop, Steve Engelhart is the next head coach replacing Kevin Kelley, who abruptly resigned after one season.

https://footballscoop.com/news/presbyterian-tabs-d-ii-head-coach-to-lead-program

[Libertine]

That's a really good hire for Presby. Englehart built the Florida Tech program from the ground up and had them in the D2 playoffs within a few years. Considering FIT is a private, high academic school, that's impressive. Granted, he probably had more and better resources there than he will in Clin'on but, by PC standards, this is a home run.

[Boogs]

According to Football Scoop, Steve Engelhart is the next head coach replacing Kevin Kelley, who abruptly resigned after one season.

https://footballscoop.com/news/presbyterian-tabs-d-ii-head-coach-to-lead-program

I wonder if he was forced out? Enough people came down hard on him.

[Libertine]

I wonder if he was forced out? Enough people came down hard on him.

If you're referring to Kelley, that's possible but he also wouldn't be the first coach that Presbyterian hired straight out of high school who quickly became completely overwhelmed by the reality of being a college football coach and abruptly bailed on the school. In fact, this exact same situation happened to PC with Bobby Bentley in 2009. I think the most telling thing with "Never Ever Punt" Kelley is that, by the end of his first season, his team was punting pretty regularly, meaning that he had already given up on at least one of the core tenets he had built his career on. That combined with the fact that a massive chunk of the PC roster hit the transfer portal immediately after the final game makes me think that Kelley probably regretted taking the job as much as PC might have regretted giving it to him.

[acbearkat]

If you're referring to Kelley, that's possible but he also wouldn't be the first coach that Presbyterian hired straight out of high school who quickly became completely overwhelmed by the reality of being a college football coach and abruptly bailed on the school. In fact, this exact same situation happened to PC with Bobby Bentley in 2009. I think the most telling thing with "Never Ever Punt" Kelley is that, by the end of his first season, his team was punting pretty regularly, meaning that he had already given up on at least one of the core tenets he had built his career on. That combined with the fact that a massive chunk of the PC roster hit the transfer portal immediately after the final game makes me think that Kelley probably regretted taking the job as much as PC might have regretted giving it to him.

Todd Dodge was hired at North Texas straight out of Southlake Carroll (his son is now the head coach there). It was a disaster. I don’t think Dodge had any college coaching experience before that. Art Briles when he was hired by the University of Houston had spent three seasons as the running backs coach at Texas Tech after being hired out of Stephenville High School.


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[Boogs]

If you're referring to Kelley, that's possible but he also wouldn't be the first coach that Presbyterian hired straight out of high school who quickly became completely overwhelmed by the reality of being a college football coach and abruptly bailed on the school.

I was thinking it was primarily because he would not punt and his record wasn't instantly great.

[UNAPride]

Englehart was very impressive at Florida Tech. Their president was nuts to cut that program.