Coaches of the Year. (A Post-Convention Special Report).The American Football Coaches Association The American Football Coaches Association is an association of football coaches on all levels and is responsible for the Coaches Poll that determines the national champion each year. capped its 2003 convention by presenting its top coaching award -- AFCA AFCA American Football Coaches Association AFCA Air Force Communications Agency AFCA Area Fuel Consumption Allocation AFCA Antique Fan Collectors Association AFCA American Fan Collectors Association AfCA African Counselling Association Coach of the Year -- to four outstanding men. Ohio State's Jim Tressel (Division I-A), Western Kentucky's Jack Harbaugh (Div. I-AA), Grand Valley State's Brian Kelly (Div. II and all NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes schools), and Mount Union's Larry Kehres (Div. III) are the 2002 AFCA National Coach of the Year winners. The winners were selected by a vote of the Active AFCA members (coaches at four-year schools) in the Association's four divisions. The AFCA has named a Coach of the Year since 1935. The AFCA Coach of the Year award is the oldest and most prestigious of all the Coach of the Year awards and holds the distinction of being the only one chosen exclusively by the coaches. Tressel led the Buckeyes to a 14-0 record, a share of the Big 10 Conference title, and the school's first national championship since 1968. He is the first coach in AFCA history to win National Coach of the Year honors at two different schools (Ohio State and Youngstown State [1991-94]. Tressel has a career record of 156-62-2 (.714) in 17 seasons and owns a two-year mark of 21-5 (.808) at OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. . Harbaugh led the Hilltoppers to a 12-3 record and the Division I-AA championship this season to win his first AFCA National Coach of the Year award. Western Kentucky won 10 consecutive games following a 2-3 start to win the school's first national title. Harbaugh has a 19-year career record of 11695-3 (.549) at Western Michigan and Western Kentucky and a 14-year mark of 91-68 (.572) at WKU WKU Western Kentucky University WKU Will Kiss You . Kelly led Grand Valley State to a 14-0 record, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (or GLIAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division II. The GLIAC was founded in June 1972. title, and the school's first Division II championship to claim his initial AFCA National Coach of the Year honor. The championship game appearance was the second consecutive for GVS. Kelly has a 12-year career record of 104-34-2(.750) at GVS. His winning percentage ranks No. 1 all-time in school history while leading the Lakers to five conference titles and five playoff appearances. Kehres led Mount Union to a 14-0 record, an 11th consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference The Ohio Athletic Conference was formed in 1902 and is one of only three conferences formed more than 100 years ago. It is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Through the years 31 schools have been members of the OAC. championship, and a seventh Division III national championship to earn AFAC (language) AFAC - An early system on the IBM 704. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. Coach of the Year honors for a record seventh time. Mount Union is 109-1 in the last 11 regular seasons and is 162-7-1 (.956) since 1990. Kehres has a career record of 192-17-3 (.912) in 17 seasons as coach of the Purple Raiders. His previous six National Coach of the Year Awards came in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001. |
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