Longest-tenured Division I head coach to step down after 2018
By Andrew Olson
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The longest-tenured coach in Division I football has decided to hang it up after one final season.
William & Mary head coach Jimmye Laycock will retire after 2018, his 39th season as the Tribe’s head coach.
“Coaching the William & Mary program is a tremendous honor,” he said in a release. “I have always taken a great deal of pride in leading my alma mater and have been grateful for the opportunity to work with such tremendous young men. Any success we have had is shared among all the great assistant coaches and the thousands of outstanding student-athletes who have come through our program.
“This was obviously a difficult decision, but the time was right to make this announcement. That being said, I can assure you that the coming season has my full attention and preparing this team will have my complete focus.”
The next longest-tenured FCS coach is Jim Parady, who has coached at Marist College since 1992. The longest-tenured FBS coach is Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz (1999).
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