Current position | |
---|---|
Title | Head coach |
Team | Utica |
Conference | Empire 8 |
Record | 85–74 |
Playing career | |
1989–1992 | Ithaca |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1993–1994 | Albany (GA) |
1995–1996 | Ithaca (DC) |
1999–2007 | St. John Fisher (DC) |
2008–present | Utica |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 85–74 |
Bowls | 2–3 |
Tournaments | 1–1 (NCAA D-III playoffs) |
Blaise Faggiano is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Utica University in Utica, New York, a position he has held since the 2008 season.
Faggiano graduated from Ithaca College and was a member of the football team. In 1991 they won the NCAA Division III Football Championship. After Ithaca, Faggiano became a graduate assistant coach at the University at Albany. He then returned to Ithaca in 1995 to coach football. [1]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | AFCA# | D3° | ||
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Utica Pioneers (Empire 8)(2008–present) | |||||||||
2008 | Utica | 3–7 | 2–4 | 5th | |||||
2009 | Utica | 4–6 | 0–5 | 6th | |||||
2010 | Utica | 5–5 | 0–5 | 5th | |||||
2011 | Utica | 5–5 | 2–5 | T–5th | |||||
2012 | Utica | 6–4 | 4–3 | T–3rd | |||||
2013 | Utica | 3–7 | 1–6 | 7th | |||||
2014 | Utica | 7–4 | 5–3 | T–3rd | L North Central | ||||
2015 | Utica | 4–6 | 3–5 | T–6th | |||||
2016 | Utica | 7–4 | 5–3 | 4th | L James Lynah | ||||
2017 | Utica | 3–7 | 2–5 | T–5th | |||||
2018 | Utica | 7–4 | 4–3 | T–3rd | W Scotty Whitelaw | ||||
2019 | Utica | 5–5 | 3–3 | 4th | |||||
2020–21 | Utica | 1–1 | 1–1 | T–1st | |||||
2021 | Utica | 6–5 | 3–3 | 4th | L Scotty Whitelaw | ||||
2022 | Utica | 10–2 | 5–1 | 2nd | L NCAA Division III Second Round | 22 | 20 | ||
2023 | Utica | 9–2 | 4–2 | 3rd | W Clayton Chapman | ||||
2024 | Utica | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
Utica: | 85–74 | 44–57 | |||||||
Total: | 85–74 |
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