Montana football coach Bobby Hauck’s surprise announcement makes him the ninth different head coach with at least 150 FCS wins to retire in the last five offseasons.
The coaching carousel is always spinning in college football, with many of the changes on the FCS level occurring when a head coach seeks to move on to something bigger and better.
Something else has been occurring in the FCS with regularity in recent years, and it continued on Wednesday when Bobby Hauck announced his retirement as Montana’s head coach.
While the announcement was a surprise on the surface, perhaps it wasn’t with a closer look. The FCS keeps losing some of its winningest coaches – all basically synonymous with their school’s football program, and some considered legends in the sport.
In less than five years, nine different head coaches with at least 150 wins on the FCS level have announced their retirement.
Hauck, 61, averaged over 10 wins per season at his alma mater while going 151-43 (.778) in 15 campaigns (one was a two-game season in the spring 2021 semester) over two stints with the Grizzlies. He’s the winningest coach in Big Sky history, with his teams earning eight conference titles and appearing in 13 FCS playoffs, including four that ended as the national runner-up.
Hauck (166-92 overall when adding in five seasons coaching UNLV) also retired as the active leader in FCS wins. But it’s a distinction Hauck held for less than two months following Monmouth coach Kevin Callahan’s retirement on Dec. 11. Callahan had 197 wins across 32 seasons as the first head coach in Hawks history.
Their two announcements out of the 21 coaching changes to date this offseason have continued a pattern this decade.
Northern Iowa’s Mark Farley (183 wins, 24 seasons) and UAlbany’s Greg Gattuso (151 wins, 23 seasons, including at Duquesne) were second and third to Callahan, respectively, on the active FCS coaching wins list when they retired following the 2024 season.
Additionally, Bob Nielson’s 2024 season at South Dakota was his last, ending a 32-year run with 239 wins at six different schools (69 were in the FCS with the Coyotes and Western Illinois).
The active FCS wins leader prior to Callahan was Harvard’s Tim Murphy, until he retired after the 2023 season. He had 200 wins in 29 seasons with the Crimson and another 15 wins at Maine for 215 overall on the FCS level (he also won 17 games on the FBS level at Cincinnati).
Also following the 2023 season, Marist’s Jim Parady and South Carolina State’s Buddy Pough announced their retirement with 151 FCS wins each (Parady also had four wins below the FCS level).
Just one week after South Dakota State captured the 2022 FCS national championship, John Stiegelemeier ended his coaching career with the Jackrabbits with 199 wins, including 157 on the FCS level. Just over a year earlier, New Hampshire’s Sean McDonnell had 157 wins as well when he retired following the 2021 campaign.
Bobby Hauck cited the ever-changing landscape across college football as factoring into his decision to step down at Montana. His retirement means Duquesne’s Jerry Schmitt has the most FCS wins among active coaches with 135 through 21 seasons.
Montana HC Bobby Hauck: “I wasn’t gonna have ‘em spread my ashes on the practice field cause I dropped dead out there.” pic.twitter.com/YiydCrfTzl
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