Dan Enos

Dan Enos (born July 1, 1968) is the current head coach of the Central Michigan Chippewas football team. Enos previously served as running backs coach for the Michigan State Spartans, where he played quarterback 1987–1990.^[1]

Playing career

Enos attended Edsel Ford High School in Dearborn, Michigan. He played quarterback and earned all-state honors while passing for 46 touchdowns and compiling 5,743 yards of total offense. Enos played four years at Michigan State University (1987–1990), including two as starting quarterback (1989–1990). Under Enos and then coach George Perles Michigan State won the 1989 Aloha Bowl and 1990 John Hancock Bowl and took a share of the 1990 Big Ten championship. As of 2010 Enos has the third-best all-time pass completion percentage in Spartan history (.621) and eighth-best total yards (4,301). In 1991 Enos graduated from Michigan State with a degree in business administration.^[2]

Coaching career

After graduation Enos joined the Michigan State football coaching staff as a graduate assistant, staying there from 1991 to 1993.

In 1994 Enos joined the coaching staff at Lakeland College, a Division III school in Wisconsin. As offensive coordinator, Enos helped develop Mark Novara, Lakeland's most successful quarterback. After Novara entered the Lakeland Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008, he credited Enos for much of his success: "That was Coach Enos' first stint on a coaching staff. He was really young, but really good. We knew he'd be in the Big Ten some day."^[3] After two years at Lakeland Enos moved on to Division II Northern Michigan University, where he spent a year as offensive coordinator.^[2]

Central Michigan University

On January 12, 2010, Enos was introduced as the new head coach at Central Michigan University,^[4] replacing Butch Jones, who left after three seasons to replace Brian Kelly at the University of Cincinnati.^[5]

Enos has struggled in his time at CMU. Enos produced back-to-back 3-9 seasons in 2010 and 2011 . Despite the 6-18 record over two seasons, Enos was rewarded with a one-year contract extension in February 2012, extending his deal through the 2015 season.^[6]

Despite a 2-1 start in 2012 and an upset victory on the road over the University of Iowa,^[7] CMU again struggled under Enos, suffering a 4-game losing streak after the upset in Iowa City. CMU suffered a 42-31 loss to rival Western Michigan University which saw CMU get outscored 28-8 in the 4th quarter.^[8] The loss was CMU's second straight loss to Western and CMU's record stood at 3-6. The following Wednesday, Central Michigan Life, published an editorial calling for Enos to be fired.^[9]

After the Western loss, Enos led CMU to a 4-game winning streak and a victory over Western Kentucky in the 2012 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, CMU's first bowl appearance and win since the 2010 GMAC Bowl. The 4-game winning streak gave CMU a record of 7-6, its first winning record since the 2009 season, the last season under Butch Jones and with Dan LeFevour as starting quarterback.

Enos was again rewarded with a one-year contract extension and pay raise in January 2013, extending his deal through the 2016 season.^[10]

Head coaching record

References

External links

• Central Michigan profile
• Dan Enos at the College Football Data Warehouse