Biographical details | |
---|---|
Alma mater | Doane (BA, 1997) Concordia (IL) (MA, 1999) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1994–1996 | Doane (SA) |
1997–1999 | Concordia (IL) (RB) |
2000 | Missouri Valley (QB) |
2001 | Dakota Wesleyan (DC) |
2002–2004 | Dakota Wesleyan |
2005 | Dana (STC/DB) |
2006–2010 | Hastings (DC) |
2011–2020 | Hastings |
2021-2021 | Grand Island Northwest HS (NE) (DC) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 53-81 |
Tony Harper is an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota from 2002 to 2004 Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska from 2011 to 2020. [1] Harper was the defensive coordinator at Hastings from 2006 to 2010. [2]
After Hastings parted ways with Harper following the 2020 season, he joined the staff at Grand Island Northwest High School in Grand Island, Nebraska as the defensive coordinator. In Spring of 2023 Harper joined Albertville High School (AL) staff as a Physical Education teacher and defensive coordinator for Albertville Aggie Football. [3]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dakota Wesleyan Tigers (Great Plains Athletic Conference)(2002–2004) | |||||||||
2002 | Dakota Wesleyan | 3–7 | |||||||
2003 | Dakota Wesleyan | 5–6 | |||||||
2004 | Dakota Wesleyan | 1–10 | |||||||
Dakota Wesleyan: | 9–23 | ||||||||
Hastings Broncos (Great Plains Athletic Conference)(2011–2020) | |||||||||
2011 | Hastings | 6–4 | 5–4 | T–4th | |||||
2012 | Hastings | 6–4 | 5–4 | T–4th | |||||
2013 | Hastings | 3–7 | 2–7 | 9th | |||||
2014 | Hastings | 6–4 | 5–4 | T–4th | |||||
2015 | Hastings | 5–5 | 4–5 | 6th | |||||
2016 | Hastings | 4–7 | 1–7 | 8th | |||||
2017 | Hastings | 5–6 | 2–6 | 8th | |||||
2018 | Hastings | 5–6 | 3–6 | 7th | |||||
2019 | Hastings | 2–8 | 1–8 | 10th | |||||
2020–21 | Hastings | 2–7 | 2–7 | 8th | |||||
Hastings: | 44–58 | 30–58 | |||||||
Total: | 53–81 |
Thomas William Osborne is an American former football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and politician from Nebraska. He served as head football coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1973 to 1997. After being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999, Osborne was elected to Congress in 2000 from Nebraska's third district as a Republican. He served three terms (2001–2007), returned to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as athletic director in 2007, and retired in 2013.
Monte George Kiffin was an American football coach. He is widely considered to have been one of the preeminent defensive coordinators in modern football, as well as one of the greatest defensive coordinators in NFL history. Father of the widely imitated "Tampa 2" defense, Kiffin's concepts are among the most influential in modern college and pro football.
Mark Anthony "Bo" Pelini is a former American football coach and former player. He was most recently the defensive coordinator for the Louisiana State University Tigers football team. He is the younger brother of former Florida Atlantic head coach Carl Pelini, who has frequently worked under Bo as an assistant coach.
Paul Robert Rhoads is an American football coach. He is currently the outside linebackers coach at Gulf Shores High School. A long-time major conference assistant coach and head coach, he is best-known for his seven-year tenure as head coach at Iowa State.
Barney Thomas Cotton is an American football coach and former player.
Carl Anthony Pelini is an American football coach. He served as defensive coordinator at Youngstown State University for the 2019 season. Pelini previously served as the head coach of Florida Atlantic from 2012 to 2013. He is the older brother of Bo Pelini, the former head coach at Nebraska and Youngstown State as well as defensive coordinator at LSU.
The Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football program represents Northwest Missouri State University in college football. They participate in Division II sports within the NCAA. The team plays their home games at Bearcat Stadium, located on campus in Maryville, Missouri.
Timothy M. McGuire is an American football coach. He served as the head coach at Morningside College from 1981 to 1982 and at Indiana State University from 1998 to 2004.
Jeremy Pruitt is an American football coach who most recently was a senior defensive assistant for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the head coach at the University of Tennessee from 2018 to 2020 and defensive coordinator at the University of Alabama from 2016 to 2017, University of Georgia from 2014 to 2015, and Florida State University in 2013.
Peter Rossomando is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the eleventh head coach at NCAA Division I FCS member Lamar University, named on December 10, 2022. He served as the interim head coach at University of North Carolina at Charlotte for the final four games of the 2022 football season. He had been the 49ers' offensive line coach for the 2021 and 2022 seasons. He was previously the offensive line coach for Vanderbilt University during the 2020 football season. Rossomando served as the head football coach at the University of New Haven from 2008 to 2013 and Central Connecticut State University from 2014 to 2018. In 2012, he was awarded the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award for NCAA Division II as head coach of the New Haven Chargers.
Rich Wright is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Northwest Missouri State University, a position he has held since 2017. From 1991 to 1994, Wright held several assistant coaching jobs in Nebraska and New York. In 1995, Wright became a graduate assistant for Northwest Missouri State, where he was earning his master's degree, for two seasons. In 1997, Wright moved to South Dakota for an assistant coaching job. Following South Dakota, Wright spent time in Missouri and Iowa, before returning to Missouri in 2004. In 2004, Wright became the defensive line coach and coordinator of special teams at Northwest Missouri State, and eventually moved to defensive coordinator and assistant head coach in 2011. In December 2016 after winning the National Championship – Wright's fourth – Wright was named the program's 20th head football coach.
Gerry Gdowski is an American former college football quarterback for the University of Nebraska, and later a college football coach.
Brad X. McCaslin is an American football coach and former player. He was most recently the defensive tackles coach at the University at Buffalo. He was previously head coach at Benedictine University, and a long-time assistant at the University of Nebraska Omaha prior to the discontinuance of football at that institution after the 2010 season. He also spent four seasons as a defensive coordinator under Chris Creighton at Drake University and Eastern Michigan University.
Mike Tressel is an American football coach who is currently the defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach for the Wisconsin Badgers. Tressel, the nephew of former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel, joined the University of Cincinnati's football coaching staff under Mark Dantonio in 2004. Tressel followed Dantonio to Michigan State when he was hired there in December 2006. He was named the acting head coach when Dantonio announced his retirement in February 2020. Tressel was one of two Dantonio assistants retained by Dantonio's successor, Mel Tucker.
Anthony Dewayne White II is an American football coach and former linebacker who is currently the defensive coordinator for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He played three seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the Ottawa Renegades and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats before getting into coaching.
Tim Tibesar is an American football coach who is the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Akron. Formerly was the defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Oregon State University.
Donte Antonio Williams is an American football coach who is the defensive backs coach at the University of Georgia. He previously served as USC's associate head coach under Clay Helton, and he became USC's interim head coach on September 13, 2021, after Helton was fired. After leading the Trojans for the final 10 games of the 2021 season, Williams remained at the school on the staff of new head coach Lincoln Riley. A coach with stints at Oregon, Nebraska, Arizona, and San Jose State, Williams has established himself as one of the nation's top college football recruiters.
Jacob Dickert is an American college football coach. He is the head coach at Washington State University. Prior to this, he served as defensive coordinator at Washington State University, beginning in 2020. Dickert attended school and played football at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and has coached at various colleges and universities since his graduation in 2007.
Chuck Morrell is an American college football coach who currently serves as an defensive analyst at the University of Alabama. He was the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach at the University of Washington from 2022–2023. He was the safeties coach at Fresno State from 2020 to 2021. Before that, he spent nine years as the head coach for Montana Tech. He attended Sioux Falls, was part of Kalen DeBoer's coaching staff during a five-year run in which Sioux Falls won three NAIA football national championships.
Freddie Banks is an American college football coach who is currently the defensive coordinator for the Colorado State Rams. He played college football at North Dakota State.