Pat Collins (American football)

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Pat Collins
Biographical details
Born (1941-08-20) August 20, 1941 (age 83)
Playing career
1960–1962 Louisiana Tech
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1963 Louisiana Tech (GA)
1964–1966 Airline HS (LA) (assistant)
1967–1980Louisiana Tech (assistant)
1981–1988 Northeast Louisiana
1989 Arkansas State (volunteer)
1990–1991Arkansas State (DC)
Head coaching record
Overall57–35
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 NCAA Division I-AA (1987)
2 Southland (1983, 1987)

Pat Collins (born August 20, 1941) is a former American football coach. He was the seventh head football coach for Northeast Louisiana University (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) located in Monroe, Louisiana.

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Coaching career

After graduating from Louisiana Tech, he became a graduate assistant. He then did some high school coaching before becoming a full-time assistant coach at Tech. He was a part of the coaching staff (focusing on defense) that won three consecutive NCAA College Division / Division II Championships from 1971 to 1973. [1] When head coach Maxie Lambright retired in 1978, Tech elected to hire Larry Beightol over anybody in Lambright's staff. [2]

Thomas Eddleman, an assistant on John David Crow's staff at Northeast Louisiana (now known as Louisiana–Monroe), lobbied to get Collins hired at the program, which was accepted. When Crows resigned in 1981, Collins became head coach. In his tenure as a coach, his intensity attracted recruits such as quarterbacks Bubby Brister and Stan Humphries. The 1983 team won a share of the Southland Conference for their first conference championship in team history. [3] [4] compiling a record of 57–35. [5] The 1986 team was picked to win the Southland but disappointed with just five wins even with a top ten defense. The 1987 team won the Division I-AA national championship with five straight playoff victories (three won by less than four points) and a dramatic comeback in the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game where they rallied from being down 42-28 in the fourth quarter with two touchdown passes from Humphries for the first (and so far) only football championship for the program, which also is the only Division I-AA/FCS championship won in the state of Louisiana. In the days where Louisiana Tech and Northeast Louisiana played regularly, Collins won six of the eight matchups between his team against Tech. [6]

He resigned in January 1989 following a domestic dispute. [7] He became a coach and administrator at West Ouachita, Ouachita and Longview before retiring in 2011. He was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.

Head coaching record

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs
Northeast Louisiana Indians (NCAA Division I-A independent)(1981)
1981 Northeast Louisiana 5–6
Northeast Louisiana Indians (Southland Conference)(1982–1988)
1982 Northeast Louisiana 8–34–12nd
1983 Northeast Louisiana 8–35–1T–1st
1984 Northeast Louisiana 7–43–34th
1985 Northeast Louisiana 6–53–34th
1986 Northeast Louisiana 5–63–2T–2nd
1987 Northeast Louisiana 13–26–01stW NCAA Division I-AA Championship
1988 Northeast Louisiana 5–62–45th
Northeast Louisiana:57–35
Total:57–35
      National championship        Conference title        Conference division title or championship game berth

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References

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  2. https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sports/college/ulm/2015/07/12/collins-looks-back-championship-run-ulm/30065517/
  3. Hunsucker, Adam (July 12, 2015). "Collins looks back on championship run at ULM". The News-Star . Monroe. Archived from the original on November 3, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  4. Campbell, Bill (June 17, 2015). "Strong will fueled Pat Collins' title-filled career". The News-Star . Monroe. Archived from the original on September 30, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  5. University of Louisiana at Monroe coaching records Archived December 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  6. https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sports/college/ulm/2017/09/27/team-destiny-oral-history-ulms-national-title/707816001/
  7. "Strong will fueled Pat Collins' title-filled career".