Eastern Michigan's latest staff addition comes from ACC. The team has had 40 head coaches, including four interim head coaches who each served less than one full season (Bob LaPointe, Jan Quarless, Tony Lombardi, and Al Lavan), since its first recorded football game in 1891. 2-4. Off the field, the squad also continues to give back with weekly service appearances in the Ypsilanti community. Trosko's teams had a 29-game winless streak from the third game of the 1959 season through the fifth game of the 1962 season,[48][49] following the decision of the Eastern Michigan administration not to award athletic scholarships. Eastern Michigan added another line to its lists of firsts, under Creighton in 2021. Salaries for Michigan Football Assistant Coaches May . [7][8] Modern records credit Swift as the school's first football coach, holding that position for the 1891 season. Jesse Minter. Eastern Michigan's football coaching staff all filled up with the announcement of three newcomers: Brandon Blaney, LaMarcus Hicks, and Mike Piatkowski. Eastern Michigan University Named the 37th head football coach at Eastern Michigan University on Dec. 11, 2013, Creighton and his staff have made tremendous strides in changing the culture and mindset surrounding the program. 1st Win over Miami University since 1993 Creighton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kenyon College in 1991 and a masters degree from Concordia (Ill.) University in 1993. Other notable offensive highlights for the Eagles included ranking 16th nationally in third down conversions, 18th in passing offense, 21st in red zone offense, and 25th in first down offense. Just the seventh DU coach to win 40-or-more games and the fastest to do so, Creighton needed just 60 games to accomplish the feat. Rynearson was the longest-serving and winningest coach, with a record of 114-58-15 over 26 seasons, while Vern Bennett (1894) posted the highest winning percentage, 71.4%. He departed Drake with the highest winning percentage in school history (.667) after also posting 63 wins as the head coach at Wabash College and 32 at Ottawa University. During his final three years at Wabash, Creighton led the Little Giants to a 30-5 record (.857) including three-straight league championships and appearances in the 2005 and 2007 NCAA Division III playoffs. [2] Over the course of his career, he coached at least one year in every varsity sport at Michigan State Normal, including football, basketball, baseball and track,[40] as well as serving as athletic director from 1948 to 1963. [26][7] That season included a victory over Rutgers, Eastern's first victory over a "Power Five" opponent. The defense improved from a season prior, as the squad recorded more tackles-for-loss (63), pass breakups (36), fumbles forced (9), fumbles recovered (6), and kicks blocked (6) than it did in all of 2013. Jeff Quinn (Buffalo) $325,000. [10] Creighton was at Wabash from 2001 to 2007, and turned the program into a "national championship contender. Full Bio. from 1993-96 before becoming head coach at Ottawa. The EMU offense showed an impressive ability to use multiple weapons during the shortened 2020 campaign. Quarterback Mike Glass III surpassed Charlie Batchs single-season record for total offense. The most recent head coach to leave Eastern Michigan with a winning record was Dan Boisture, who left after the 1973 season; only Boisture and Elton Rynearson coached more than two seasons and retired with winning records. Drake matched its best nine-game start in history (8-1) that year, while riding a six-game mid-season winning streak. The coaching duties from 1921 through 1924 were split between Joseph McCulloch and James M. Brown, each taking two seasons of work. Pride. From 1925 through 1927 they outscored opponents 405 points to 31 and registered 19 shutouts. [20][21][9], On December 22, 2007, Creighton was named the head football coach at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, replacing interim head coach Steve Loney. 1 overall and secured their potential franchise quarterback. EMU finished the year with 39 touchdowns, a mark that is tied for the fifth-most in a single-season during the squads history, while its 4,560 yards of total offense is also the fifth most. Overall, EMU was nationally ranked seventh in fumbles recovered, 32nd in turnovers gained, 58th in interceptions, and 59th in rushing defense. 2nd Win over a Big Ten Conference team (Purdue) Jeff Genyk, a native of nearby Ann Arbor, Michigan, who was raised in Milan, Michigan, played quarterback for Bowling Green State University. Creighton served as offensive coordinator at Concordia (Ill.) from 1991-92 and Manchester (Ind.) The team also shattered the school record for total offense with 5,917 yards, breaking the previous record of 5,010. The official Football Coach List for the Ball State University Cardinals Skip To Main . The official Football Coach List for the Central Michigan University Chippewas Skip To Main . Lester Family Defensive Coordinator. In his first seven seasons, the team attained a record of 41192, including a 711 record in 1953 and an 810 record in 1954. That number ranked 45th in the nation. Sports Mission Statement Media Relations Office NCAA Compliance NCAA Appearances Organizational Chart Alumni Contact Update Coaches/Staff Information Form EADA Report Facility Rentals . 1st Win over a Big Ten Conference Team (Rutgers) EMUs most impressive home win came in Week 11, when the Green and White used late-game defensive heroics to upend in-state foe Western Michigan, 22-21, on Senior Night in the Factory. In 2009, picked to finish sixth in the preseason coaches poll, Creighton guided Drake to an 8-3 record, including a 6-2 third-place finish in the Pioneer Football League. A pair of first-year Eagles led the way in yards per carry and yards per game, respectively, as Trey Bess III notched 6.4 yards each time from scrimmage and Darius Boone Jr. totaled 84.7 yards per contest. List of Eastern Michigan Eagles head football coaches, Elton Rynearson (1917, 19191920, 19251948), Bell, McCulloch, and Brown (1918, 19211924), Rick Rasnick and Tony Lombardi (19951999). In 1976, Rynearson was posthumously named one of the inaugural members of the Eastern Michigan University Athletic Hall of Fame.[41]. Although Rynearson's offense was more effective, outscoring opponents 111 to 82, more than half of the scoring came in a single game, a 63-0 rout of Central Michigan, and the team ended the season with a 3-4 record. At Drake, he shared back-to-back Pioneer Football League conference titles. Louis. When asked if there was a need to add receivers from the transfer portal, Roderick said, "Yes, but I want to make sure everyone knows that it's not because we're not happy with who we have. About Deane W. Kelley (1892), Verne S. Bennett (1894), Enoch Thorne (1898), Dwight Watson (1899), Hunter Forest (1903), Daniel Lawrence (19041905), Clare Hunter (1909), Curry Hicks (1910), Dwight Wilson (1911), Leroy Brown (19121913; basketball also), and Thomas Ransom (1914; basketball also) little is known beyond the years they held the position, the team's schedule, and occasional tidbits from The Aurora, the school yearbook. In 2022, the Eagles' offense ran the ball on 52 percent of offensive snaps and ranked as the 27th-best run-blocking unit in the country out of 131 teams (per PFF ). EMU played the fourth-most single possession contests, as only Pittsburgh (9) and North Carolina (9) played in more games that went down to the wire. Creighton explained that the trips encouraged personal growth: "You're doing something that maybe you didn't think you could doI just think you grow as a person in those situations. In this spirit, EMU has nicknamed Rynearson Stadium The Factory, a place where coaches and staff will go to work each day to help E Tough student-athletes become scholars, leaders, champions and impact men. From 1998 through 2001, Cooper was head coach at Alabama A&M. Kirk Campbell. TicketSmarter- Official Ticket Resale Marketplace, EMU's Beydoun and Oakes Receive NFL Camp Invites, Milestone NFL Draft In the Books for EMU Football, Jose Ramirez Selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2023 NFL Draft, Sidy Sow Selected by the New England Patriots in the 2023 NFL Draft. [7], While head coach at Wabash, Creighton began a practice of writing to national championship-winning coaches to seek their advice on building a successful team. III playoffs, conference title, 12-1, NCAA Div. Department of Athletics Mailing Addresses. 2023 Football Coaching Staff. Voted a finalist for the 2016 American Football Coaches Awards first-ever Comeback Coach of the Year, Creighton led EMU in to the programs first winning season since 1995 and its first bowl appearance since 1987. Henry Schulte was the second career coach to work at Michigan State Normal. However, following the end of World War II, Rynearson's teams again struggled, and he ended his coaching career on a streak of three losing seasons from 1946 through 1948. The Eagles produced points in 28-of-28 trips inside the opponents 20-yard line, a 22.5 percent improvement over last seasons efficiency. We actually have three, maybe four scholarships available there that we haven't used yet. 2019 Eastern Michigan Season 6-7. Seventeen Bulldogs earned All-PFL honors following the 2012 championship and six were named to the PFL All-Academic Team, including three student-athletes that also garnered CapitalOne/CoSIDA Academic All-District honors. 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The season ended with a trip to Hillsdale College and a 206 victory.[42]). During the 2015 campaign, the Eagles finished the regular season ranked nationally in the top-60 in seven statistical categories to go along with 11 top-five rankings in the MAC. [21] Creighton coached at Drake from 2008 to 2013, compiling a record of 4122. [17] In 2002, Creighton led Wabash to an undefeated season and its first playoff appearance since 1977, earning him NCAC coach of the year honors. [9] He was also the head coach for the men's basketball team for the 1915-16 and 1916-17 seasons, with a record of 25 wins and 5 losses,[30]:104 ranking him #1 at the school in winning percentage (.833). In addition, a then-school record 61 Bulldogs were named to the PFL Academic Honor Roll for achieving a grade-point average of 3.0 or above. Moreover, Eastern was ranked 10th nationally for fewest second-half points allowed at just 8.7 per game. In 1993, Creighton was the head coach and quarterback of the Limhamn Griffins in Malmo, Sweden, as he helped guide the franchise to its first national championship. Wabash went 12-1 in 2002 and 11-1 in 2005, capping both seasons with appearances in the NCAA Division III playoffs. Away from the field, EMU led the MAC in team grade point average for the 2015-16 academic year. Eastern Michigan competed in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). A Detroit native[52] and World War II hero,[53][54] Boisture turned down an offer to play basketball at Notre Dame, instead attending the University of Detroit, where he lettered four times in football, and twice in basketball. Drake had an 11-game home win streak during Creightons tenure as well as winning 16-straight home conference games with him at the helm. Teetzel played end on the 1897 and 1898 Michigan Wolverines football teams[16] before switching to halfback in 1899. On the national scale, Eastern owned the fifth-best redzone defense in the NCAA, while holding opponents to 150.2 passing yards per game, the third-fewest in the nation. Under LaPointe, the team received widespread attention for their various attempts to end the streak, which included "bringing a coffin to the locker room before the gameas a reminder to 'kill the streak'",[78] and hiring a local hypnotist. 2016 Eastern Michigan Season 7-6. 1st Three game road winning streak since 1967 3rd Win over a Power 5 Conference team (Illinois) He is currently the head coach at Eastern Michigan University, a position he has held since the 2014 season. 1st Non-conference road victory since the 1988 campaign (at Wyoming in 2015) It marked the second consecutive season the Eagles posted the top GPA in the league, holding a 2.90 team mark. He also served as the school's track coach from 1919 to 1938, and was an assistant coach for the football team from 1922 to 1927. Ramirez was Eastern Michigan's third-leading tackler this season with 66 stops, and led the Eagles in both quarterback hurries (10) and forced fumbles (2). With that trip setting the foundation for the Bulldogs 2011 season, the team adopted the theme Tupande Kileleni, a Swahili term that translates to Lets climb to the summit. The summit, for Drake, became the quest to perform to its full potential and symbolized the climb to the top of the Pioneer Football League standings, which it achieved. Creightons first Drake club in 2008 went 6-5 and finished in a tie for fourth in the PFL. Christopher William Creighton (born February 7, 1969) is an American football coach and former player. During his 25-plus year head coaching career, the 52-year-old Creighton has accumulated eight conference titles and an all-time record of 176-103 (.631 winning percentage). Chlebek came to Eastern Michigan from the University of Notre Dame, where he was an assistant under Dan Devine and coached future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana. The margin for error was razor thin for the Eagles this year as nine of EMUs 12 games were decided by seven points or less, including six of EMUs seven losses coming down to one possession, and a school-record three in overtime. 1st Bowl Appearance in 29 years (1987 California Bowl to 2016 Bahamas Bowl) Woodruff's first season, in which the team posted a 3-8 record turned out to be the best of his tenure (.273). EMUs offense was one of the best scoring units in the Mid-American Conference regular season in 2021. It was also the sixth different country in which Creighton had coached a game. Additionally, he is just the sixth player in Eastern Michigan history to collect first team honors. Resilience. His 12 sacks were an all-time single-season record at EMU. One player that BYU is. With its selection to the LendingTree Bowl, Eastern made three consecutive bowl appearances (excluding COVID-shortened 2019 season) for the first time in program history, and its fourth postseason appearance in the previous six seasons. 1st Win over a Power 5 Conference team (Rutgers) The offense at Eastern Michigan is a run-heavy, duo-based scheme. [29], In 1915, Mitchell was hired as an assistant professor of physical education at Michigan State Normal College. Lassiter signed with Eastern Michigan out of the JUCO ranks. [89] Harkema is credited with building the program at Eastern Michigan into a "Top-Shelf" program,[90] and he coached one of just two EMU games at Rynearson Stadium that sold-out: a 24-31 loss to Western Michigan on October 22, 1988 drew 23,003 (listed capacity at the time was 22,227), and a 0-0 tie against Eastern Kentucky on October 16, 1971 drew 17,360 (listed capacity at the time was 15,500). As an offense, Eastern converted 42.4 percent (67-of-158) of its third down tries during the regular season. Creighton remained a "diehard" Raiders fan even as his playing and coaching career pulled him east. The San Francisco, Calif. native produced one of the greatest single season turnarounds in NAIA history during his first year at Ottawa in 1997. In his six seasons at the helm of Drake, Creighton racked up a 35-13 (.729) record in Pioneer Football League action and a 31-9 (.775) record the last five seasons. After the shortened 3-game 1918 season was coached by Lynn Bell, Rynearson returned to coach the 1919 squad to their first winning season in four years. [11] A. Bird Glaspie held various political posts in Michigan,[12] and served in the Michigan House of Representatives[13] from 1917 until 1922 and the Michigan Senate from 1923 through 1924. Van Hoeven, who boasted a 3.96 GPA, became the first EMU student-athlete in the football programs history to be named a First Team Academic All-American. Head Coach (269) 276-3205 (269) 276-3205: Cory Mee: Associate Head Coach Jordan Keur: Assistant Coach / Recruiting Coordinator Daniel Schlereth: Volunteer Assistant Coach Basketball, Men's (5406) Read Fieldhouse, 1903 W. Michigan Ave. Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Phone: 387-3117 Fax: 387-3568; Dwayne Stephens Creightons efforts again resulted in league-wide recognition in 2021, as seven different Eagles landed on All-MAC teams. That number is the seventh-most in a single season by any Eastern player. [8][6] In the spring of 1993, he received an opportunity to play quarterback for Sweden's Limhamn Griffins, where he also served as a coach. Additionally, the team averaged 4.66 trips to the red zone per game in 2020, a considerable improvement from EMUs 2019 numbers (3.8 trips per game). The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. Family: Wife: Heather Children: Hallie, Kate, Luke. [35] After another winning season in 1920, other coaches assumed the duties for four years, during which the team managed a 9-15-4 record.[36]. [46], In July 1952, Trosko was hired as head football coach at Michigan State Normal College. The team posted winning seasons in all seven years of Boisture's coaching, including a 13-game winning streak that remains a school record. Teetzel went on to Brigham Young University (19051908) and Utah State Agricultural College (19081916), where he headed the athletic departments and coached a variety or sports, including basketball and track. Full Bio. 1st time EMU student-athletes have the opportunity to play in three bowl games in their careers matthew.strzalkowski@cuaa.edu. Furthermore, EMU went 10-4 in the month of November in those four years. Drake defeated a team of Mexican all-stars 177, giving Creighton a victory on his third continent. He attended his first Oakland Raiders game at the age of eight. [101], On November 16, 1999, three days after a 29-26 loss at Central Michigan,[102] Eastern Michigan Athletic Director Dave Diles held a press conference to announce that he had fired Rasnick as head coach,[103] and that defensive coordinator Tony Lombardi would serve as the interim head coach for the final game of the season, four days later, saying, "I felt it was best to make a change at this time to begin an immediate search for a new head football coach. The official 2013 Football Roster for the Eastern Michigan University Eagles . R1 (1): QB Bryce Young, Alabama R2 (39): WR Jonathan Mingo, Ole Miss R3 (80): EDGE DJ Johnson, Oregon R4 (114): G Chandler Zavala, NC State R5 (145): S Jammie Robinson, Florida State. . Elsewhere within Creightons offense, Hassan Beydoun blossomed as one of the best wide receivers in the league. The Eastern Michigan Eagles football program is a college football team that represents Eastern Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference, a part of the NCAA Division I. Football The BYU coaching staff has already added 16 transfers to the roster for the 2023 season, and they still have multiple scholarships to use on transfers. The Bulldogs head coach was recognized for the job he did by being named one of 20 finalists for the 2011 Eddie Robinson Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Coach of the Year Award. And I mean very run-heavy. Creighton took over the Offensive Coordinator role, as the Eagles went 2-4 in their short, six-game slate. [8] Creighton spent four seasons at Manchester, continuing under Dave Harms after the latter replaced Liston following the 1994 season. Following a 38-10 loss to Central Michigan on November 1, 2003, Diles fired Woodruff, saying, "Jeff Woodruff has helped develop our program with quality young men, but the team is not on the competitive level that we felt should be after four years."[104]. 2014 Eastern Michigan Season 2-10. 1st Win at Akron since 1995 EMU athletic director Scott Wetherbee announced Tuesday that he, football coach Chris Creighton, men's basketball coach Rob Murphy and women's basketball coach Fred Castro will take a 7%. [24] Creighton inherited a difficult situation. 36 88 Chris CreightonRetweeted Eastern Michigan Football @EMUFB Oct 1 Our are back. And I mean very run-heavy. Four players earned conference first team honors, five were named to the second team and two garnered a spot on the honorable mention team. 2nd Win over a Power 5 Conference team (Purdue) Following graduation in 1991, Creighton became offensive coordinator (OC) at Concordia University Chicago under Jim Braun while working on his master's degree, which he completed in 1993. In 1993, Ron Cooper, an alumnus of Jacksonville State University, was hired to take over the program. [19], While ineligible at Michigan, Schulte began a long career in coaching. 3rd Win over a Big Ten Conference team (Illinois) [84], Following the disastrous end of the Stock/LaPointe years, Eastern Michigan conducted a national coaching search, which resulted in the hiring of Michigan native Jim Harkema in 1983. In September 1969, Eastern Michigan dedicated its new football stadium as Rynearson Stadium. As an offense, EMU ranked 35th in the FBS in total offense, posting 455.2 yards per game in 13 contests. It was Drakes fifth PFL crown and first since 2004. 1st Back-to-back season since 2008-09 that players were taken in the NFL Draft [9] In 1965 the team registered a 3-4-1 record, but with three non-conference losses, their record in the Presidents' Athletic Conference was 3-1-1. From 1981 to 1982, he coached Kent State to a 418 record. The 2012 team was led by one of his star pupils in record-setting quarterback Mike Piatkowski. Sherrone Moore. Twitter - @Cougs_Daily and Casey Lundquist at @casey_lundquist, BYU is putting on a full-court press in search of more wide receivers, Baker has averaged more than 10 points per game over the last three seasons, Baker was committed to BYU for over two years before opening up his recruitment, On the same day that Kody Epps entered the transfer portal, BYU offered two transfer wide receivers, Jaren Hall will start his NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings, Blake Freeland is headed to the Indianapolis Colts, Multiple former Cougars rank among the top five best available players at their positions, Lassiter has garnered Power Five interest since entering the transfer portal, added 16 transfers to the roster for the 2023 season. Creighton has served as the head coach at three other schools: Ottawa University (19972000), Wabash College (20012007), and Drake University (20082013). III playoffs, conference title. From Kent State he went to the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League as the offensive coordinator in 1983. In 1993, he signed to play professionally for Limhamn Griffins in Sweden's top league Superserien. Name: Chris Creighton He stayed for just two seasons,[93] before being hired by Louisville, where he remained through 1997. [29] In the fall of 1912, he was hired as a teacher and coach at Union High School, where "[h]e developed state title contenders in baseball, football, and basketball". A school-record 63 Bulldogs were also named to the PFL Academic Honor Roll. Full Bio. Inspired by the region and the student-athletes own backgrounds, Creighton continues to challenge the program to be E Tough, committed to great effort, sacrifice and triumphing in the face of adversity. James M. Swift was raised in Massachusetts, where American football went through much of its early development, and he is credited with introducing "scientific football" to Michigan State Normal School. [13] Creighton, who has a life-long interest in mountain climbing, took his seniors on mountain-climbing trips. Eastern Michigan had not had a winning season since 1995 nor gone to a bowl game since 1987. [99], When Eastern Michigan hired him as head coach in 1995, Rasnick brought a more open, pass-oriented offense to Eastern Michigan than his predecessor, Ron Cooper, had used,[100] and Rasnick's recruiting noticeably favored junior-college transfers rather than high school seniors. [48] His teams won Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ("IIAC") championships in 1954 and 1957. 2015 Eastern Michigan Season 1-11. 1991 Concordia High School in IL. The 1943 and 1945 teams (there was no team in 1944) were again successful, combining for a 7-0-1 record. One of the best football teams in recent Eastern Michigan history and arguably one of the best in the Mid-American Conference, the Eagles experienced plenty of moments of celebration as well as heartbreak in 2017. [30]:104 Although the team finished undefeated in Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association play in the 19161917 season, Kalamazoo College was also undefeated, and is recorded by the MIAA as the champion for that year. In addition, the special teams excelled in punt coverage (5th NCAA FCS/1st PFL, 3.4), kickoff coverage (5th NCAA/1st PFL, 16.1) and punt return average (15th NCAA/1st PFL; 13.53). Lassiter, a wide receiver, spent one season at Eastern Michigan where he racked up 471 receiving yards on 40 receptions including 4 touchdowns. Doug Samuels. Eastern was invited to the 2016 Bahamas Bowl, its first postseason appearance since the 1987 California Bowl. Boisture's bowl-bound 1971 team played for one of just two sellout crowds in the stadium's history, a 0-0 tie against Eastern Kentucky on October 16, 1971 which drew 17,360 spectators. 1st Three-game MAC winning streak since 1999 The Factory is also highlighted by Division I Footballs first gray FieldTurf playing surface. In 1963, Mans was hired as the ends coach for the Eastern Michigan football team,[64] but he left after one year to serve as Michigan Tech's head wrestling coach, assistant director of intramural athletics, and assistant football coach.
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