Pittsburg State football formally announced their 16th head coach in program history Thursday.
Last Saturday PSU Former Associate Head Coach Tom Anthony was sitting on his couch watching ESPN’s College Gameday at his home in Cincinnati when he got a phone call from Pittsburg State Athletic Director Jim Johnson.
Anthony had resigned from his position before the start of this football season and relocated his family back to Ohio, where his wife is from. He was unaware that then PSU Head Football coach Brian Wright had informed Johnson that he had accepted a new job at Northern Arizona University.
When Johnson informed Anthony of the news he asked how he could help locate Pitt State's next head coach.
Johnson told Anthony that he wanted to hire him to coach the winningest Division II football program in the country. Thirty minutes later Anthony accepted the job. Anthony had this message for fans hungry for not only MIAA success but a national championship.
“I’ve told guys, Pitt State, we’ve lost five games in the last three seasons by a total of ten points. So the things we’re doing here are really good and how it’s our job as a staff to close those, to find those little inches. L
ike where are those little things happening that we have to fix that we have to correct? Is it coaching? Is it players? It’s a little bit of everything.”
Pittsburg State and Central Missouri were co-MIAA champions this past season, both with 11 and 2 records.
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