List of Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks head football coaches

The Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football program is a college football team that represents the University of Louisiana at Monroe. The team has had 13 head coaches since organized football began in 1951 at Northeast Louisiana with the nickname Indians. The Warhawks have played in more than 629 games during their 59 seasons. No coaches have led the Warhawks to a postseason bowl game. Three coaches have won conference championships with the Warhawks: Pat Collins and Dave Roberts in the Southland Conference and Charlie Weatherbie in the Sun Belt Conference. Collins also won one national championship with the Warhawks when they competed in what is now the Football Championship Subdivision. As of the end of the 2009 season, Collins is the all-time leader in games coached (92), years coached (8), and wins (57), while Roberts is the all-time leader in winning percentage at .661. Bobby Keasler is, in terms of winning percentage, the worst coach the Warhawks have had, with a record of 8-28 (.222) in four seasons.

Of the 13 Warhawks coaches, only one has been inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame, John David Crow, who was inducted as a player. None have received National Coach of the Year honors. The current coach is Terry Bowden, who was hired in December 2020.

Key
Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason[A 1]
No. Order of coaches[A 2] GC Games coached CW Conference wins PW Postseason wins
DC Division championships OW Overall wins CL Conference losses PL Postseason losses
CC Conference championships OL Overall losses CT Conference ties PT Postseason ties
NC National championships OT Overall ties[A 3] C% Conference winning percentage
Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O% Overall winning percentage[A 4]

Coaches
List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 5]
No.
[A 6]		 Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW
[A 7]		 CL CT C% PW PL PT CCs NCs National awards
1 James L. Malone 1951–1953 27 12 15 0 0.444 — — — — — — — — — —
2 Devone Payne 1954–1957 38 15 22 1 0.408 — — — — — — — — — —
3 Jack C. Rowan 1958–1963 57 20 37 0 0.351 — — — — — — — — — —
4 Dixie B. White 1964–1971 77 31 45 1 0.409 — — — — — — — — — —
5 Ollie Keller 1972–1975 41 14 24 3 0.378 — — — — — — — — — —
6 John David Crow 1976–1980 55 20 34 1 0.373 — — — — — — — — — —
7 Pat Collins 1981–1988 92 57 35 0 0.620 26 14 0 0.650 4 0 0 2 1 —
8 Dave Roberts 1989–1993 59 38 19 2 0.661 24 7 2 0.758 1 3 0 2 — —
9 Ed Zaunbrecher 1994–1998 56 20 36 0 0.357 — — — — — — — — — —
10 Bobby Keasler 1999–2002 36 8 28 — 0.222 2 4 — 0.333 — — — — — —
11 Mike Collins 2002 9 3 6 — 0.333 2 4 — 0.333 — — — — — —
12 Charlie Weatherbie 2003–2009 82 31 51 — 0.378 24 24 — 0.500 — — — 1 — —
13 Todd Berry 2010–2015 71 28 43 — 0.394 20 25 — 0.444 0 1 — — — —
14 Matt Viator 2016–2020 58 19 39 — 0.328 15 24 — 0.385 0 0 — — — —
15 Terry Bowden 2021– 0 0 0 — – 0 0 — – 0 0 — — — —

Notes
  1. Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[1]
  2. A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
  3. Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[2]
  4. When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[3]
  5. Statistics correct as of the end of the 2012 college football season.
  6. A running total of the number of coaches of the Warhawks. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is counted only once.
  7. Louisiana-Monroe did not join a conference until 1953 and was an independent from 1971 through 1981 and from 1996 through 2000.

References
General
  • "Louisiana-Monroe Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  • "Sun Belt Conference Standings". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  • MacCambridge, Michael, ed. (2005). "Louisiana-Monroe". ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. pp. 442–445. ISBN 978-1-4013-3703-2.
  • "2009 Southland Conference Football Guide". Southland Conference. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
Specific
  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived from the original on August 22, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  2. Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on November 24, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  3. Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
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