Joe Glenn (American football)
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| Joe Glenn | ||
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| Title | Head Coach | |
| College | Wyoming | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Team record | 26–33 | |
| Born | March 7, 1949 | |
| Place of birth |  Lincoln, NE |
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| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 184-92-1 | |
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| Championships | ||
| 1996, 1997 NCAA Division II national football championship 2001 NCAA Division I-AA national football championship |
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| Playing career | ||
| 1968-71 | South Dakota | |
| Position | QB & WR | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1976-1979 1989-99 2000-02 2003-present |
Doane Northern Colorado Montana Wyoming |
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Joe Glenn (born March 7, 1949 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is the 30th head coach at the University of Wyoming since the school began playing football in 1893. Glenn took over Wyoming's football program in December of 2002 after Wyoming fired the previous coach, Vic Koenning.
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[edit] Early coaching career
Joe Glenn served as backfield coach at his alma mater, the University of South Dakota, in 1974. He was also a backfield coach at Northern Arizona University in 1975.
Glenn's first head coaching job was at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. There he was the youngest head college football coach at 27 years of age. Glenn was the 28th head coach for the Tigers and he held that position for four seasons, from 1976 until 1979. His coaching record at Doane was 21 wins, 18 losses, and 1 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him sixth at Doane in total wins and 16th at Doane in winning percentage (0.538).[1]
After Doane, Glenn did his first stint at the University of Montana as a quarterbacks and wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator from 1980 to 1985. He was out of coaching in 1986. In 1987, he joined the staff at University of Northern Colorado (UNC) as quarterbacks and kicking coach. He was named head coach of UNC for the 1989 season.
Prior to coaching at Montana, Glenn led the Division II University of Northern Colorado to two NCAA Division II national football championships in 1996 and 1997. Glenn spent eleven seasons at UNC, with a 98-35 record.
[edit] Montana coaching career
Glenn came to Wyoming following a distinguished career in NCAA Division I-AA and Division II. Before arriving at Wyoming, Glenn coached at the Montana for three seasons. He had a 39-6 record at Montana. In 2001, the Grizzles won the NCAA Division I-AA national football championship, defeating Furman University. In the year before, the Grizzlies finished as the NCAA Division I-AA runner-up, losing to Georgia Southern University in the championship game. In 2002, Montana finished in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championships.
[edit] Wyoming coaching career
Joe Glenn is leading the University of Wyoming Football program for the fifth season in 2007. The 2006 season concluded with the Cowboys winning five of their last seven games to finish third in the Mountain West Conference.
During his first four years at UW, Glenn and his coaching staff recorded a number of accomplishments that re-energized both his Wyoming players and Cowboy fans.
Among Wyoming’s accomplishments during the Glenn era are:
- Wyoming rose from a team at the bottom of the Mountain West Conference standings the year prior to Glenn’s arrival in Laramie to a program that recorded a third-place finish in 2006—--its highest finish since becoming a founding member of the MWC in 1999.
- Two of Wyoming’s first four Wyoming teams earned bowl eligibility. Both the 2004 and 2006 Cowboy squads achieved bowl-eligible status. The Cowboys made their first bowl appearance in 11 seasons in the 2004 Pioneer Pure Vision Las Vegas Bowl where they defeated UCLA, 24-21.
- Wyoming recorded its first win in history over a Southeastern Conference (SEC) school in the 2004 season with a 37-32 win over Ole Miss. The Cowboys also posted their first road win ever over an SEC team when, in 2005, the Pokes traveled to Oxford, Miss., and defeated the Ole Miss Rebels 24-14.
- UW posted a 2-1 record versus BCS conference schools in 2004, defeating UCLA and Ole Miss, losing only at Texas A&M.
- In the 2003 season, Glenn led Wyoming to wins over rivals Colorado State and Brigham Young in his first season on the sideline of War Memorial Stadium. That marked the first time since 1988 that UW had defeated its two archrivals in the same season.
- Glenn’s Cowboys started the 2007 season with a 23-3 winner over Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Virginia.
- Two of Glenn’s former Cowboys have been selected finalists for the National Football Foundation’s (NFF) Draddy Trophy. The Draddy Trophy which is also referred to as the “Academic Heisman" is awarded annually to the top football scholar-athlete in the country. Fewer than 20 student-athletes from all levels of college football are selected as finalists for the trophy each year. In 2004, Wyoming center Trenton Franz was a Draddy finalist. In 2006, Cowboy safety John Wendling joined that distinguished group. Both received postgraduate scholarships from the National Football Foundation. Franz is pursuing graduate studies in engineering at Princeton. Wendling was a sixth round pick in the 2007 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills.
The impact of Glenn and his staff hasn’t only been recognized in the state of Wyoming, but has been acknowledged by football experts across the Mountain West Conference and the nation. In the spring of 2005, Wyoming received recognition in a number of college football writers preseason Top 25 polls. When the 2004 season concluded with the bowl victory over UCLA, Wyoming received votes in the final ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll. That marked the first time since 1996 that Wyoming had ended a season receiving votes in a national poll. The summer following that Las Vegas Bowl victory saw the Sporting News feature Coach Glenn as a cover story, recognizing his turnaround of the Cowboy Football program. At the conclusion of the 2003 season, MWC media members voted Wyoming as the “2004 Team on the Rise.” In the voting, conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Wyoming received 53 percent of the votes. The next closest school received 20 percent.
Glenn’s proven record as a winner and his magnetic personality have made an immediate impact on the attitude surrounding Cowboy Football.
Joe Glenn entered the 2007 season having won:
Three national championships, six conference titles, and posted 17 winning seasons in 22 years as a head coach. Glenn’s teams won the NCAA Division I-AA National Championship at Montana in 2001, and won two NCAA Division II National Championships at Northern Colorado in 1996 and 1997. Over his career as a head coach at the collegiate level, he has won 67.7 percent of his games, posting a 179-85-1 record prior to the 2007 season. Glenn is in his 23rd season as a head coach.
Glenn credits much of his teams’ successes through the years to the contributions and stability of his coaching staff. “One of the keys to our success has been the quality of individuals on our coaching staff,” said Glenn. “I believe, to have continued success, that it is critical to not only attract the best coaches possible, but also to keep them together as a staff. I’m so proud of the job our coaches have done, and I am thankful that they have chosen to stay together as a group. I feel very lucky to have my staff.”
[edit] Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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| Doane College Tigers (Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1976 – 1979) | |||||||||
| 1976 | Doane College | 5-5 | 2-3 | ||||||
| 1977 | Doane College | 5-5 | 3-2 | ||||||
| 1978 | Doane College | 6-4 | 3-2 | ||||||
| 1979 | Doane College | 5-4-1 | 1-3-1 | ||||||
| Doane College: | 21-18-1 | 9-10-1 | |||||||
| Northern Colorado Bears (North Central Conference) (1989 – 1999) | |||||||||
| 1989 | Northern Colorado | 6–4 | 5-4 | T4th | |||||
| 1990 | Northern Colorado | 8–3 | 6-3 | 3rd | L Division II 1st Round | ||||
| 1991 | Northern Colorado | 8–3 | 6-2 | 2nd | L Division II 1st Round | ||||
| 1992 | Northern Colorado | 6–5 | 4-5 | T7th | |||||
| 1993 | Northern Colorado | 8–3 | 6-3 | T3rd | |||||
| 1994 | Northern Colorado | 7–4 | 6-3 | T2nd | |||||
| 1995 | Northern Colorado | 9–3 | 7-2 | T2nd | L Division II 1st Round | ||||
| 1996 | Northern Colorado | 12–3 | 6-3 | T2nd | W Division II Championship Game | ||||
| 1997 | Northern Colorado | 13–2 | 8-1 | 1st | W Division II Championship Game | ||||
| 1998 | Northern Colorado | 11–2 | 8-1 | T1st | L Division II Quarterfinal | ||||
| 1999 | Northern Colorado | 11–2 | 8-1 | T1st | L Division II Quarterfinal | ||||
| Northern Colorado: | 99–34 | 70-28 | |||||||
| Montana Grizzlies (Big Sky Conference) (2000 – 2002) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Montana | 13–2 | 8-0 | 1st | L Division I-AA Championship Game | ||||
| 2001 | Montana | 15–1 | 7-0 | 1st | W Division I-AA Championship Game | ||||
| 2002 | Montana | 11–2 | 5-2 | T1st | L Division I-AA Quarterfinal | ||||
| Montana: | 39–6 | 20-2 | |||||||
| Wyoming Cowboys (Mountain West Conference) (2003 – present) | |||||||||
| 2003 | Wyoming | 4–8 | 2-5 | T7th | |||||
| 2004 | Wyoming | 7–5 | 3-4 | T4th | W Las Vegas Bowl | ||||
| 2005 | Wyoming | 4–7 | 2-6 | 8th | |||||
| 2006 | Wyoming | 6–6 | 5-3 | T3rd | |||||
| 2007 | Wyoming | 5–7 | 2–6 | ||||||
| Wyoming: | 26–33 | 14-24 | |||||||
| Total: | 184-92-1 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season. | |||||||||
[edit] Personal life
Glenn graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1971. While there, he earned a bachelor of arts degree in health, physical education, recreation and athletics. He played quarterback and wide receiver for the Coyotes, and was selected a team captain as a senior. After graduation he earned an ROTC commission as a Second Lieutenant and served two years on active duty during the Vietnam War Era. He was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant and honorably discharged. In 1975 he received a master's degree in education from South Dakota. In 2006, Joe Glenn was inducted into the University of South Dakota Hall of Fame.
He and his wife, Michele, are both natives of Lincoln, Nebraska. They have two adult children, a daughter Erin and a son Casey. Casey was an offensive lineman at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, concluding his playing career in 2002; he is currently Director of Football Operations for Wyoming.
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| Preceded by Ron Simonson |
Northern Colorado Head Football Coach 1989 – 1999 |
Succeeded by Kay Dalton |
| Preceded by Mick Dennehy |
Montana Head Football Coach 2000 – 2002 |
Succeeded by Bobby Hauck |
| Preceded by Vic Koenning |
Wyoming Head Football Coach 2003 – Present |
Succeeded by Current coach |
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