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Athletics: Two Candidates Selected for Head Football Coach
December 29, 2015
From WIU Intercollegiate Athletics
Contact: Patrick Osterman/Assistant Athletics Director – Athletic Communications
MACOMB, IL -- Western Illinois University Interim Director of Athletics and search committee Chair Matt Tanney announced today (Tuesday, Dec. 29) that two candidates for the head football coach opening are scheduled to visit campus this week.
The two candidates are Charlie Fisher and Rob Ash.
Fisher has spent the last two years as the associate head coach at Richmond, working as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. This season, the Spiders advanced to the semifinals of the FCS playoffs (10-4 overall record) while earning a ‘Top 10' national ranking.
With more than 30 years of college coaching experience, Fisher has spent time as an assistant coach at: Penn State, Miami (Ohio), Vanderbilt, Temple, North Carolina State, West Georgia, Lenoir-Rhyne, Ole Miss and Eastern Kentucky. From 1993-97 he was the head coach at West Georgia and posted a 36-17 record with a share of the 1997 Gulf South Conference championship and two postseason appearances. He was a graduate assistant on the 1982 Eastern Kentucky team that won the FCS national championship.
His campus and community open forum will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30 in the Corbin-Olson e-classroom.
Ash, most recently the head coach at Montana State, owns a 246-137-5 career coaching record in 36 years as a head coach. He went 70-38 during his nine years at MSU, and early in the 2015 season the Bobcats ranked among the ‘Top 10' in the FCS polls. He took Montana State to the postseason four times and captured at least a share of the Big Sky Conference title three consecutive years (2010-12).
He was named the 2011 Liberty Mutual Division I FCS ‘Coach of the Year' and 2012 AFCA Region 5 ‘Co-Coach of the Year'. Ash is the all-time winningest coach at all three places he was head coach at – Montana State (9 years), Drake (125-63-2/18 years) and Juniata (51-36-3/9 years)
A campus and community open forum for Ash will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31 in the Corbin-Olson e-classroom.
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