Current position | |
---|---|
Title | Head coach |
Team | Kean |
Conference | NJAC |
Record | 82–97 |
Playing career | |
1993–1996 | Montclair State |
Position(s) | Linebacker, defensive end |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1997–2002 | Montclair State (assistant) |
2003–2005 | Kean (DC) |
2006–present | Kean |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 82–97 |
Bowls | 3–1 |
Tournaments | 0–1 (NCAA D-III playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1 NJAC (2011) | |
Awards | |
Division III Assistant Coach of the Year (2005) 3× NJAC Coach of the Year (2006, 2011, 2021) | |
Dan Garrett is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Kean University, a position he has held since 2006.
Garrett grew up in Clifton, New Jersey, where he played football at Clifton High School. [1] After playing collegiate football for the Montclair State Red Hawks football team, Garrett played for the Nuremberg Rams of the German Football League and the Trenton Lightning of the Indoor Professional Football League. [1]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | D3# | |||
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Kean Cougars (New Jersey Athletic Conference)(2006–present) | |||||||||
2006 | Kean | 7–4 | 4–3 | 4th | W ECAC Southeast Bowl | ||||
2007 | Kean | 5–5 | 3–4 | T–4th | |||||
2008 | Kean | 7–4 | 6–3 | T–4th | L ECAC South Atlantic Bowl | ||||
2009 | Kean | 9–2 | 8–1 | 2nd | |||||
2010 | Kean | 5–5 | 5–4 | T–4th | |||||
2011 | Kean | 10–2 | 8–1 | 1st | L NCAA Division III Second Round | 10 | |||
2012 | Kean | 5–4 | 5–2 | 3rd | |||||
2013 | Kean | 2–8 | 1–6 | T–7th | |||||
2014 | Kean | 2–8 | 2–5 | T–5th | |||||
2015 | Kean | 8–3 | 6–3 | 3rd | W ECAC Presidents Bowl | ||||
2016 | Kean | 7–4 | 5–4 | T–5th | W ECAC Clayton Chapman Bowl | ||||
2017 | Kean | 4–6 | 4–5 | T–5th | |||||
2018 | Kean | 1–9 | 1–8 | 9th | |||||
2019 | Kean | 3–7 | 2–5 | T–5th | |||||
2020–21 | Kean | 0–1 | 0–1 | T–4th | |||||
2021 | Kean | 4–5 | 4–2 | 2nd | |||||
2022 | Kean | 3–7 | 2–4 | T–4th | |||||
2023 | Kean | 0–10 | 0–6 | 7th | |||||
2024 | Kean | 0–3 | 0–0 | ||||||
Kean: | 82–97 | 66–67 | |||||||
Total: | 82–97 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
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