Don Carthel
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| Don Carthel | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | West Texas A&M | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Conference | LSC | |
| Team record | 33–5 | |
| Born | 1952 | |
| Place of birth |  Dimmitt, TX |
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| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 79–51–1 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Championships | ||
| 1991, 2005-07 Lone Star Conference championships | ||
| Awards | ||
| 2007 AFCA Region Four Coach of the Year | ||
| Playing career | ||
| 1970-1973 | ENMU | |
| Position | C / K | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1975-1976 1977-1979 1980 1981-1982 1983-1984 1985-1991 2004 2005-present |
Floydada HS (DC) Dubuque (DC) FW Boswell HS (DC) Lubbock Christian UTEP (OL/ST) ENMU Amarillo Dusters West Texas A&M |
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Don Carthel (born 1952 in Dimmitt, Texas) is an American football coach. He currently serves as head football coach at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas.
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[edit] Early years
After playing four years at Eastern New Mexico University, Carthel began his coaching career under legendary coach L. G. Wilson at Floydada High School in Floydada, Texas. He later coached at University of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa, and Boswell High School in Fort Worth, Texas, until getting his first head coach job at Lubbock Christian College (now Lubbock Christian University). In 1983, Carthel became assistant under Bill Yung at the University of Texas at El Paso.
[edit] Head coaching career
In 1985 Carthel took over head coaching duties at his alma mater Eastern New Mexico. In his seven seasons the Greyhounds had only one losing season. After a 5-5 record in Carthel's initial season, the Greyhounds were 8-3 in 1986 and 9-2 in '87. They were 2-8 in 1988, but followed with records of 7-3, 6-4 and 7-3-1. In five of Carthel's seven years, the Greyhounds were ranked in the Division II Top 20 Poll. In 1991, the ENMU won the Lone Star Conference championship. Carthel was inducted into the ENMU Hall of Fame in 2001.
Having reached the pinnacle of his career as a head coach, Carthel chose to retire at age 39, and moved back to the family farm in Friona, Texas.[1] He took a pause from football coaching for nine years, before becoming a volunteer coach at Abilene Christian University under head coach Gary Gaines in 2000. Trying to become a head coach again, Carthel applied for the vacant West Texas A&M job in late 2001, but athletic director Ed Harris opted for Ronnie Jones.[2] In 2004 Carthel was named the head coach and general manager of the Amarillo Dusters in their inaugural season in the Intense Football League. Amarillo posted a 15-3 record under Carthel and won the IFL Championship that year.
West Texas A&M fired Jones after three unsuccessful seasons, thus Carthel applied for the job again. This time, he was selected as head coach. In his first year, he guided the school to its first Lone Star Conference Championship in 19 years. He has since compiled a 33–5 record, which is the highest winning percentage of any West Texas A&M coach since Alonzo P. George's 3–0 record in 1918. As of 2007, only Joe Kerbel (68–42–1), Frank Kimbrough (54–52–2), and Alfred Baggett (36–28–5) won more games for West Texas A&M than Carthel.
Carthel runs an “Air-Raid offense” very similar to Mike Leach's offense at nearby Texas Tech.[3] After guiding West Texas A&M to its second undefeated regular season in school history, Carthel was named 2007 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Region Four Coach of the year.[4]
[edit] Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | ||||
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| Lubbock Christian Chaparrals (Sooner Athletic Conference) (1981 – 1982) | |||||||||
| 1981 | Lubbock Christian | 2–8 | |||||||
| 1982 | Lubbock Christian | 0–10 | |||||||
| Lubbock Christian: | 2–18 | ||||||||
| Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds (Lone Star Conference) (1985 – 1991) | |||||||||
| 1985 | Eastern New Mexico | 5–5 | 3–2 | ||||||
| 1986 | Eastern New Mexico | 8–3 | 3–3 | ||||||
| 1987 | Eastern New Mexico | 9–2 | 4–2 | ||||||
| 1988 | Eastern New Mexico | 2–8 | 0–6 | ||||||
| 1989 | Eastern New Mexico | 7–3 | 5–2 | ||||||
| 1990 | Eastern New Mexico | 6–4 | 5–2 | ||||||
| 1991 | Eastern New Mexico | 7–3–1 | 5–1 | 1st | |||||
| Eastern New Mexico: | 44–28–1 | 25–18 | |||||||
| West Texas A&M Buffaloes (Lone Star Conference) (2005 – present) | |||||||||
| 2005 | West Texas A&M | 10–2 | 9–1 | 1st | L Division II 2nd Round | ||||
| 2006 | West Texas A&M | 11–2 | 8–1 | 1st | L Division II 2nd Round | ||||
| 2007 | West Texas A&M | 12–1 | 9–0 | 1st | L Division II 2nd Round | ||||
| West Texas A&M: | 33–5 | 26–2 | |||||||
| Total: | 79–51–1 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
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