Chuck Broyles
Charles Leroy Broyles (born February 5, 1947) is a football coach at Pittsburg State University whose team won the NCAA Division II Football Championship in 1991 and has played title games in 1992, 1995 and 2004.
His 189-39-2 overall record at Pittsburg at the beginning of the 2008 made him the winningest active NCAA-II football coach (by percentage) and the third-winningest collegiate coach in the country at any level.[1]
Broyles was born in Bremerton, Washington and grew up in Mulberry, Kansas where he played eight-man football.
He played in the defensive and offensive lines of Pittsburg and graduated from the school in 1970. In 1970-71 he was an assistant coach at Bishop Carroll High School in Wichita, Kansas. He received an M.A. from Pittsburg in 1972 (serving as a graduate assistant with the football team). In 1973 he was coach of Stockton High School in Stockton, Missouri. He was a defensive coordinator for the University of Missouri-Rolla from 1974 to 1982. He was an assistant coach at Miami High School in Miami, Oklahoma from 1983-85. He returned to Rolla as defensive coordinator in 1986-87.[1]
In 1988 he was an assistant coach at Pittsburg. In his first season as head coach of Pittsburg in 1990, his team went 10-0 in the regular season and won two games in the Division playoffs. In his second season in 1991 he lead the college to a 13-1-1 record and a national championship. He was named Division II Coach of the Year.[1]
The powerhouse of Pittsburg led to a $5.8 million overhaul of Carnie Smith Stadium in 2000, a further $2.5 million renovation to the west end in 2006 (including the addition of eight luxury boxes and the addition of a $1.7 million Video Board in 2007 (the biggest in Division II at the time). Games between Pittsburg and its MIAA rival Northwest Missouri State University being played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.[1] The 2005 game was attended by 20,000—a record crowd for any Division II game.[2]
In 2008 he was named Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year. He also in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. Broyles also plays the role as a husband, father, and grandfather. He has three sons, Scott, Kyle and Mark. Kyle died in 2008. Scott and his wife Bryna have three daughters, Ashley, Nicole and Jenna.
Quotes
"We need to win this game. Then we can say ‘Chuck Broyles, head coach at Pittsburg State University 20 years and never had a losing season.’"[3][4]
- Referring to the November 7, 2009 game against the Truman State University Bulldogs, which they subsequently lost 21-28 giving Broyles his first losing season.