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Joe Glenn
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Joe Glenn arrived on campus at The University of Montana with impressive credentials, and he more than lived up to the high expectations that come with being the head man of Grizzly football.
In his three seasons as mentor at Montana, Glenn posted a 39-6 overall mark (20-2 in league play) and guided UM to two Division I-AA title games. His win total ties him for the fourth most in school history (with current Utah State coach Mick Dennehy). Glenn's Grizzlies garnered two out-right Big Sky championships in those title runs, and also took home a co-conference championship in 2002.
In the 2002 season UM reeled off 10 straight wins and tied the I-AA record for consecutive victories with 24. The Grizzlies posted an 11-3 mark and made a record-tying 10th straight appearance in the I-AA playoffs.
Glenn was named the 2002 American Football Coaches Association's Region 5 Coach of the Year, as well as the 2002 Big Sky co-Coach of the Year, sharing the honor with Montana State coach Mike Kramer.
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Montana won a school-record 15 games in 2001 and finished the dream season with a 13-6 victory over Furman in the NCAA Division I-AA national championship game in Chattanooga, Tenn. Glenn was recognized for UM's success that year as he was voted the AFCA Region 5 Coach of the Year, and shared Big Sky "Co-Coach of the Year" honors with Eastern Washington coach Paul Wulff.
In his first season as head coach in 2000, the Grizzlies went 13-2 overall and 8-0 against conference foes. Montana advanced to the I-AA championship game for the third time in six years, but lost 27-25 to Georgia Southern at Chattanooga.
For his efforts in 2000, Glenn was the winner of the Eddie Robinson Award which is given annually by The Sports Network to the Division I-AA Coach of the Year. He received similar honors from the Big Sky Conference that season.
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Glenn also spent time as an assistant at Montana from 1980-85, serving as the quarterback/receivers coach in 1980-81 and as offensive coordinator from 1982-85. In the 1982 season the Grizzlies won the Big Sky title and earned their first-ever Division I-AA playoff berth. During his tenure at UM, the Grizzlies broke or tied 89 offensive school records.
Glenn took the head coaching position at Montana after a very successful coaching stint in the Division II ranks. His 11-year career at Northern Colorado boasted an overall mark of 98-35 (.737), a stretch where Glenn never had a losing season. The Bears made five-straight trips (seven overall) to the Division II playoffs and won back-to-back NCAA Division II National Championships in 1996 and 1997.
Northern Colorado was only the fourth team in the history of Division II to repeat as national champions. The titles that Glenn's UNC teams won were not only a first for the football program, but also the first in any sport in the history of the university.
The Bears placed in the top half of the North Central Conference in eight of Glenn's 11 years at the helm. In 1997 UNC won the school's first league title since 1980, a feat they repeated in both the 1998 and 1999 seasons.
Glenn was named the AFCA Division II National Coach of the Year following the 1996 season, and also the 1997 campaign where he garnered North Central Conference Coach of the Year accolades. Glenn was twice named the American Football Quarterly Division II National Coach of the Year while at UNC. Glenn was named one of Colorado’s “Greatest Coaches of the 1900s” by the Denver Post in the spring of 2000.
Before becoming head coach at Northern Colorado, Glenn got his start as an assistant where he served as quarterbacks coach for UNC in 1987.
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In 1976, at the age of 27, he took over the coaching reigns at Doane (Neb.) College, becoming the youngest collegiate head coach in the nation. Glenn compiled a 21-18-1 overall mark in his four seasons as coach.
Glenn began his coaching career in 1974 at South Dakota, his alma mater, working as the offensive backfield coach for one season before heading to Northern Arizona University where he held the same position.
In December of 2002, Glenn became the 30th head football coach at the University of Wyoming where his proven record as a winner and his magnetic personality have made an immediate impact on the attitude surrounding Cowboy Football.
Year |
School |
Overall |
Conference/Place |
NCAA Playoffs |
1980 |
Montana |
3-7 |
2-5 |
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1981 |
Montana |
7-3 |
5-2/2nd |
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1982 |
Montana |
6-6 |
5-2/1st |
0-1 |
1983 |
Montana |
4-6 |
3-4 |
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1984 |
Montana |
2-8-1 |
0-7 |
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1985 |
Montana |
3-8 |
2-5 |
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Totals
(6 years) |
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25-38-1
(.397) |
17-25
(.405) |
0-1
(.000) |
Year |
School |
Overall |
Conference/Place |
NCAA Playoffs |
2000 |
Montana |
13-2 |
8-0/1st |
3-1 (National Runners-up) |
2001 |
Montana |
15-1 |
7-0/1st |
4-0 (National Champions) |
2002 |
Montana |
11-3 |
5-2/1st |
1-1 |
Totals
(3 years) |
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39-6
(.867) |
20-2
(.909) |
8-2
(.800) |
Montana Totals |
64-44-1 |
37-27 |
8-3 |
9 years |
.593 |
.578 |
.727 |
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