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The Miami RedHawks football program is a college football team that represents Miami University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The team has had 35 head coaches and 2 interim coaches since it started playing organized football in 1888 and was originally known by the nickname Redskins before changing to RedHawks in 1997. Miami competed independent of conferences at various point in its history, but also held memberships in the Ohio Athletic Conference (1911 − 1927), and Buckeye Conference (1928 − 1938) before joining the MAC in 1947. The RedHawks have played in 1,197 games during their 130 seasons. Nine coaches have led the RedHawks to postseason bowl games: Sid Gillman, Woody Hayes, John Pont, Bill Mallory, Dick Crum, Tim Rose, Terry Hoeppner, Michael Haywood, and Chuck Martin. Fifteen coaches have won conference championships with the RedHawks: three for the OAC, one for the Buckeye, and eleven for the MAC . No Miami coach has led the RedHawks to a national championship. As of the end of the 2019 season, Randy Walker is the all-time leader in games coached (99) and wins (59), while Frank Wilton is the all-time leader years coached (10). C. K. Fauver leads the RedHawks in winning percentage with a perfect 1.000 in his one season at Miami. Among coaches with more than two seasons of tenure, George Little has the highest winning percentage, .875, and Don Treadwell has the lowest winning percentage, with a record of 8–21 (.276) in roughly 2+1⁄2 seasons.

Of the 35 RedHawks coaches, five have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Little, Gillman, Hayes, Ara Parseghian, and Bo Schembechler. These men and the number of high-caliber player coaches the school has produced gave rise to its nickname as a "Cradle of Coaches". No coach has received National Coach of the Year honors. On December 3, 2013, Miami hired Martin, who remains the current head coach as of December 2019.

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Coaches

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Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season
# Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT DCs CCs Awards
— No paid coach 1888-1894*; 1898-99, 1905 32 16 15 1 .516 — — — — — — — — —
1 C. K. Fauver 1895 3 3 0 0 1.000 — — — — — — — — —
2 Ernest Merrell 1896 4 3 1 0 .750 — — — — — — — — —
3 Herbert McIntire 1897 7 2 4 1 .357 — — — — — — — — —
4 Alonzo Branch 1900 2 0 2 0 .000 — — — — — — — — —
5 Thomas Hazzard 1901 5 1 3 1 .300 — — — — — — — — —
6 Peter McPherson 1902-03 13 6 6 1 .500 — — — — — — — — —
7 Arthur Smith 1904 6 1 5 0 .167 — — — — — — — — —
8 Arthur Parmalee 1906 7 1 5 1 .214 — — — — — — — — —
9 Amos Foster 1907-08 14 13 1 0 .929 — — — — — — — — —
10 Harold Iddings 1909-10 14 5 8 1 .393 — — — — — — — — —
11 Edwin Sweetland 1911 8 2 4 2 .375 1 3 1 0.300 — — — —
12 James Donnelly 1912-14 24 14 8 2 .625 9 5 2 0.625 — — — —
13 C. J. Roberts 1915 8 6 2 0 .750 5 1 0 0.833 —
14 George Little† 1916, 1919-21 32 27 3 2 .875 23 3 2 0.857 — 2
15 George Rider 1917-18 14 11 0 3 .893 9 0 2 0.909 — 1
16 Harry Ewing 1922-23 16 7 7 2 .500 5 7 1 0.423 —
17 Chester Pittser 1924-31 68 41 25 2 .618 23 21 1 0.522 — 1
18 Frank Wilton 1932-41 88 44 39 5 .528 20 13 2 0.600 — 3
19 Stu Holcomb 1942-43 19 10 8 1 .553 — — — — — —
20 Sid Gillman† 1944-47 38 31 6 1 .829 — — — — 1 0 0 — —
21 George Blackburn 1948 9 7 1 1 .833 4 0 0 1.000 — 1
22 Woody Hayes† 1949-50 19 14 5 0 .737 7 1 0 0.875 1 0 0 — 1
23 Ara Parseghian† 1951-55 46 39 6 1 .859 19 2 1 0.886 — 2
24 John Pont 1956-62 67 43 22 2 .657 25 8 2 0.743 0 1 0 — 2
25 Bo Schembechler† 1963-68 60 40 17 3 .692 27 8 1 0.764 — 2
26 Bill Mallory 1969-73 51 39 12 0 .765 15 11 0 0.577 1 0 0 — 1 MAC Coach of the Year (1973)
27 Dick Crum 1974-77 45 34 10 1 .767 18 4 0 0.818 2 0 0 — 3 MAC Coach of the Year (1974)
28 Tom Reed 1978-82 55 34 19 2 .636 23 13 1 0.635 —
29 Tim Rose 1983-89 78 31 44 3 .417 26 28 3 0.482 0 1 0 — 1
30 Randy Walker 1990-98 99 59 35 5 .621 46 24 3 0.651 1
31 Terry Hoeppner 1999-04 73 48 25 — .658 37 11 — 0.771 1 1 — 2 1 MAC Coach of the Year (2003)
32 Shane Montgomery 2005-08 48 17 31 — .354 12 18 — 0.400 2
33 Michael Haywood 2009-10 25 10 15 — .400 8 8 — 0.500 1 1 MAC Coach of the Year (2010)
33 Interim Lance Guidry 2010 1 1 0 — — — — — — 1 0 — — —
34 Don Treadwell 2011-13 29 8 21 — .276 6 11 — 0.353
34 Interim Mike Bath 2013 7 0 7 — .000 0 7 — .000
35 Chuck Martin 2014–present 118 56 62 — .475 44 31 — 0.587 1 4 — 3 2

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  1. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the RedHawks. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is counted only once.
  2. ^ Miami did not compete in a conference division until the MAC subdivided in 1997.
  3. ^ Miami did not join a conference until 1911.
  4. ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[1]
  5. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[2]

References

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General
  • "2018 Football Media Guide" (PDF). miamiredhawks.com. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
Specific
  1. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  2. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "BIG PLAYS HELP PATERNO TO 200TH". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
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