Eastern Michigan Eagles football

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The Eastern Michigan Eagles are a mid-major college football program at Eastern Michigan University. They compete in Division I-A and the Mid-American Conference.

1 Current Head Coach
2 Stadium
3 All-Time Win-Loss Record after the 2006 season
4 Conference Championships
5 Bowl Game
6 Trophy Games
7 Pro Football Hall of Famers
8 Current NFL Players
9 External links
10 References

[edit] Current Head Coach

Jeff Genyk - Prior to accepting the EMU head coaching position, Genyk spent the previous 12 years at Northwestern working for the football program. He was the running backs coach, recruiting coordinator and one of the special teams coaches for five seasons (1999-2003). In 1998 he was the secondary coach, working with the safeties, and he was also one of the special teams’ coaches. In 1997, Genyk was the linebackers coach, and one of the special teams coaches as well. In December of 1996, prior to the Wildcats’ appearance in the Comp USA Florida Citrus Bowl, Genyk was elevated to inside linebackers coach. Before the 1997 season, he made the switch to outside linebackers coach. During the 1994, 1995 and 1996 seasons, he was the director of football operations. He first joined the Northwestern staff as a graduate assistant coach for the 1992 and 1993 seasons.

During his tenure as the running backs coach, Genyk tutored tailback Damien Anderson to a school-record 2,063 yards in the 2000 season. He also saw another one of his running backs, Jason Wright, reach the 1,000-yard rushing mark in both 2002 and 2003 with 1,234 and 1,151 yards respectively. Anderson went on to earn All-American honors in 2000 while Wright was an Academic All-American in 2002.

Genyk was part of three Big Ten championship teams, and four postseason bowl games at Northwestern. The 1995, 1996 and 2000 teams all won Big Ten titles. The 1995 squad played in the Rose Bowl, the 1996 team was in the Comp USA Florida Citrus Bowl, the 2000 team played in the Alamo Bowl, and the 2003 squad played in the Motor City Bowl. The '95 and '96 squads (as well as the 2000 squad in perhaps one of the greatest games in college football history) defeated Michigan, which Northwestern had not done since 1965.^[1]

Genyk is a native of Milan, Mich (born 8-22-60). where he was an all-state quarterback at Milan High School. He went on to Bowling Green State University and played quarterback for the Falcons from 1978-81 before completing his bachelor’s degree in 1982 in business administration. Genyk has two master’s degrees, an MBA from Western Michigan University in 1989, and a master’s in education from Northwestern in 1994.

Genyk joined the Northwestern football staff in 1992 after serving as an assistant coach at Grand Rapids (Mich.) Community College from December 1990 to the spring of 1992 where he tutored the quarterbacks and wide receivers. Prior to joining the coaching ranks, he worked in private business from 1982-91.

And after just two seasons Genyk has proven to be the right man for the job. He helped lead EMU to a 4-4 Mid-American Conference record in 2004, the best record since the 1999 squad went 4-4 in Mid-American Conference play. In addition, Genyk directed the Eagles to the Michigan MAC championship with wins over both in-state league rivals, Western Michigan and Central Michigan, for the first time since the 1986 season.

The 2005 season saw even more improvement as Genyk saw his Eagles finish with a 4-7 overall record and a 3-5 MAC mark. However, that final mark could just as easily have been 6-5 or even 7-4, as the Eagles dropped two one-point games, lost another by two points, and dropped a third by seven.

In 2006, EMU had just one win, homecoming against Toledo. But again, the total could have been a lot higher. They lost two games by 8, one game in overtime by 7, one game by 6, and two games by 3.^[2]