Caruso named Pioneer Football Coach of the Year
(Courtesy: Mark Brown/University of St. Thomas)
University of St. Thomas head football coach Glenn Caruso earned another honor on Monday.
The conference announced him as the Pioneer Football Coach of the Year after leading the Tommies to a 10-1 record (8-0 in conference play) and the No. 19 ranking in FCS.
The honor makes Caruso the first St. Thomas coach in any sport to be named a conference coach of the year in the D-I era, and his team was the university’s first to win a conference championship and crack a national top-20 poll in the D-I era.
He’s also a finalist for the FCS’s Eddie Robinson Award as national coach of the year, the second straight year he’s in the running for that honor after finishing ninth in last year’s vote.
Caruso is now 143-25 over 14 seasons at St. Thomas, including 100-14 against conference opponents. He’s won six D-III National Coach of the Year awards — two from the AFCA, three from Liberty Mutual and one from American Football Monthly Magazine — and six MIAC Coach of the Year awards.