List of North Carolina A&T Aggies head football coaches

This list of North Carolina A&T Aggies head football coaches includes those coaches who have led the North Carolina A&T Aggies football team that represents North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in the sport of American football. The Aggies currently compete in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and CAA Football, the technically separate football league operated by the Aggies' primary home conference, the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA).

Nineteen men have served as the Aggies' head coach, including one who has served as interim head coach, since the Aggies began play in the fall of 1924. In February 2011, Rod Broadway was named the new head coach of the Aggies, and the following year, led the team in its first winning season in nine years.[1] Since the inception of the program, six coaches have let the Aggies in postseason bowl games: Charles DeBerry, William Bell, Bert Piggott, Hornsby Howell, Mo Forte, Bill Hayes, George Small, & Rod Broadway.[2] Eight Aggie coaches have led their teams to conference championships during their tenure, with Bill Hayes and Burt Piggott both winning the most at three each.[1] Three Aggie coaches have won the Black college football national championship during their tenures; Hornsby Howell in 1968, and Bill Hayes in 1990 and 1999, and Rod Broadway in 2015.[3]

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. Name Season(s)[A 6] GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT CC NC Awards
— Unknown[A 7] 1901–1922 24 7 12 5 0.396 — — — — — — — — 0 —
1 Lonnie P. Byarm 1923–1930 73 38 25 10 0.589 20 17 9 0.533 — — — 1 0 —
2 Harry R. Jefferson 1931–1932 16 5 11 0 0.313 5 8 0 0.385 — — — 0 0 —
3 Inman A. Breaux 1933–1936;
1938–1939 		53 28 17 8 0.604 25 12 7 0.648 — — — 0 0 —
4 S. A. Barksdale 1937 9 2 4 3 0.389 3 5 1 0.357 — — — 0 0 —
5 Homer Harris 1940 9 4 4 1 0.500 3 3 0 0.500 — — — 0 0 —
6 Roland K. Bernard 1941 9 3 6 0 0.333 2 5 0 0.286 — — — 0 0 —
7 Charles U. DeBerry 1942–1944 25 13 12 1 0.519 5 8 0 0.385 1 1 0 0 0 —
8 Charles W. Carter 1945 9 3 5 1 0.389 2 3 0 0.400 — — — 0 0 —
9 William M. Bell 1946–1956 100 56 37 7 0.595 38 27 7 0.563 — — — 1 1[A 8] —
10 Bert Piggott 1957–1967 99 56 39 4 0.586 55 14 3 0.785 — — — 3 0 —
11 Hornsby Howell 1968–1976 93 55 34 4 0.613 29 17 3 0.622 — — — 1 1 CIAA Coach of the year (1974,1975)
12 James McKinley 1977–1981 68 30 37 1 0.449 15 17 1 0.467 1 1 0 0 0 MEAC Coach of the year (1980)
13 Mo Forte 1982–1987 65 26 38 1 0.408 8 14 0 0.364 0 1 0 1 0 MEAC Coach of the year (1986)
14 Bill Hayes 1988–2002 170 106 64 0 0.624 0 0 0 .000 1 3 0 3 2 MEAC Coach of the year (1991,1999)
15 George Small 2003–2005 35 16 19 0 0.457 9 13 0 0.409 0 1 0 1 0 —
16 Lee Fobbs[A 9] 2005–2008 30 2 28 0 0.067 0 21 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 —
INT George Ragsdale[A 10] 2008 4 1 3 0 0.250 1 3 0 0.250 0 0 0 0 0 —
17 Alonzo Lee 2009–2010 22 6 16 0 0.273 4 12 0 0.333 0 0 0 0 0 —
18 Rod Broadway 2011–2017 79 57 22 0 0.722 41 15 0 0.732 2 1 0 3 2 MEAC Coach of the year (2017)
19 Sam Washington 2018–2022 46 31 15 0 0.674 19 8 0 0.704 2 0 0 2 0
20 Vincent Brown 2023–present 11 1 10 0 0.083 0 8 0 .000 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.[4]
  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.[5]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[6]
  5. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season.
  6. ^ North Carolina A&T did not field teams from 1902–1905, 1907–1911, 1913, & 1917–1920"North Carolina A&T Yearly Totals". cfbdatawarehouse.com. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  7. ^ All athletic records prior to 1924 were lost.
  8. ^ In 1951, North Carolina A&T was awarded a national title outside of the Black college national championship.
  9. ^ Lee Fobbs was fired from his position as coach on October 21, 2008. As of that date his season record was 2-6."NC A&T fires football coach". USAToday.com. The Associated Press. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  10. ^ George Ragsdale was named interim coach on October 21, 2008; He finished the 2008 season with a 1–3 record.

References

  1. ^ a b "2013 NC A&T Football Media Guide" (PDF). ncataggies.com. NC A&T Athletics. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  2. ^ "North Carolina A&T Bowl History". cfbdatawarehouse.com. College Football Database. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  3. ^ "North Carolina A&T National Championships". cfbdatawarehouse.com. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  4. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  5. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  6. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.