Joe Bettasso

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Joe Bettasso
Current position
Title Defensive coordinator & linebackers coach
Team Missouri Southern
Conference MIAA
Playing career
2001–2004 Missouri Southern
Position(s) Defensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2006 Missouri Southern (GA)
2007–2009 McPherson (DC/LB/DB/RC)
2010–2011McPherson
2012 Quincy (IL) (DB)
2013–2014Quincy (IL) (DC)
2015–2017 McKendree (DC/LB)
2018Missouri Southern (DC)
2018Missouri Southern (interim HC)
2019–presentMissouri Southern (DC/LB)
Head coaching record
Overall15–15
Tournaments0–1 (NAIA playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 KCAC (2010)
Awards
KCAC Coach of the Year (2010)

Joe Bettasso is an American college football coach and former player. He is the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for Missouri Southern State University, positions he has held since 2019. Bettasso served as the interim head coach for 2018 and in 2021. Bettasso was formerly the defensive coordinator at McKendree University and, prior to that, Quincy University. Bettasso was the head football coach at McPherson College from 2010 to 2011, compiling a record of 14–8.

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Coaching career

Bettasso was the 27th head football coach at McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas and he held that position for the 2010 and 2011 seasons. [1] His coaching record at McPherson was 14–8. [2]

Following a 10–0 regular season in 2010, Bettasso's McPherson Bulldogs won the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) title and was seeded sixth in the 2010 NAIA Football National Championship. [3] They suffered their first and only loss in the first round, losing to the 12th-ranked McKendree Bearcats. [4] Bettasso was named conference coach of the year in 2010. [5]

After completion of the 2011 season, he resigned to become the defensive backs coach at NCAA Division II Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois. [6]

Head coaching record

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs NAIA Coaches' Poll#
McPherson Bulldogs (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference)(2010–2011)
2010 McPherson10–19–01stL NAIA First Round 11
2011 McPherson4–74–57th
McPherson:14–813–5
Missouri Southern Lions (Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association)(2018)
2018 Missouri Southern1–71–712th
Missouri Southern:1–71–7
Total:15–15
      National championship        Conference title        Conference division title or championship game berth

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References

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