Current position | |
---|---|
Title | Head coach |
Team | Hastings |
Conference | GPAC |
Record | 14–18 |
Playing career | |
1993 | Doane |
Position(s) | Offensive lineman |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1996–2006 | Hastings (assistant) |
2007–2017 | Doane |
2021–present | Hastings |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2018–2020 | Doane |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 79–67 |
Tournaments | 0–2 (NAIA playoffs) |
Matt Franzen is an American college football coach and former college athletic administrator. He is the head football coach for Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, a position he has held since 2021. Franzen was the head football coach at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska from 2007 to 2017, compiling a record of 65–49. He was also the athletic director at Doane from 2018 to 2020.
Franzen succeeded Tommie Frazier as head football coach at Doane in 2007. [1] [2]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | NAIA# | |||
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Doane Tigers (Great Plains Athletic Conference)(2007–2017) | |||||||||
2007 | Doane | 4–6 | 4–6 | T–6th | |||||
2008 | Doane | 4–7 | 3–7 | 8th | |||||
2009 | Doane | 4–7 | 4–6 | T–7th | |||||
2010 | Doane | 3–7 | 3–7 | T–8th | |||||
2011 | Doane | 8–2 | 7–2 | T–2nd | 19 | ||||
2012 | Doane | 7–3 | 6–3 | 3rd | 21 | ||||
2013 | Doane | 5–5 | 5–4 | T–5th | |||||
2014 | Doane | 7–3 | 7–2 | 3rd | 22 | ||||
2015 | Doane | 9–2 | 8–1 | 2nd | L NAIA First Round | 9 | |||
2016 | Doane | 9–2 | 7–1 | 2nd | L NAIA First Round | 10 | |||
2017 | Doane | 5–5 | 3–5 | T–6th | |||||
Doane: | 65–49 | 57–44 | |||||||
Hastings Broncos (Great Plains Athletic Conference)(2021–present) | |||||||||
2021 | Hastings | 2–8 | 2–8 | T–9th | |||||
2022 | Hastings | 7–4 | 6–4 | 5th | |||||
2023 | Hastings | 5–6 | 4–6 | T–7th | |||||
2024 | Hastings | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
Hastings: | 14–18 | 12–18 | |||||||
Total: | 79–67 |
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