Or just time to move on after 23 seasons, 2 more than Nehlen had at WVU?
Bryan Collins, Long Island University head football coach for 23 seasons, resigned 3 months before the Sharks are scheduled to play West Virginia University in Morgantown at 5 p.m. Saturday, September 11. And lesser competition in Florida Atlantic and Miami of Ohio (NOT Florida).
After 1 1/3 seasons in Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision, he’s called it quits.
Collins was tabbed as LIU's head coach in 1998, became the program's all-time winningest leader and also spent time as the school's athletics director. His teams posted 16 winning seasons and captured seven conference championships prior to the school's leap to the D-1 level.
The first season in D-1, in 2019, was a rude awakening. 0-10 instead of winning seasons 16 of 21 years.
Too much of a change for Collins? Or too old for the tougher challenge?
Bryan Collins, Long Island University head football coach for 23 seasons, resigned 3 months before the Sharks are scheduled to play West Virginia University in Morgantown at 5 p.m. Saturday, September 11. And lesser competition in Florida Atlantic and Miami of Ohio (NOT Florida).
After 1 1/3 seasons in Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision, he’s called it quits.
Collins was tabbed as LIU's head coach in 1998, became the program's all-time winningest leader and also spent time as the school's athletics director. His teams posted 16 winning seasons and captured seven conference championships prior to the school's leap to the D-1 level.
The first season in D-1, in 2019, was a rude awakening. 0-10 instead of winning seasons 16 of 21 years.
Too much of a change for Collins? Or too old for the tougher challenge?