Kermit Blount

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Kermit Blount
Sport(s)	Football
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Delaware State
Conference	MEAC
Record	14–19
Biographical details
Born	(1958-05-16) May 16, 1958 Richmond, Virginia
Alma mater	Winston-Salem State
Playing career
1976–1979	Winston-Salem State
Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1993–2009 2011–present	Winston-Salem State Delaware State
Head coaching record
Overall	105–106–3
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships 2 CIAA (1999, 2000)
Awards 2× CIAA Coach of the Year (1999, 2000)

Kermit Blount (born May 16, 1958) is the head football coach at Delaware State University, in Dover, Delaware (member of the MEAC), and is the former head football coach at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 1993 through 2009. He is an Winston-Salem State alumnus who played quarterback for the Rams from 1976 to 1980, and was a teammate of NFL player Timmy Newsome. During his tenure, the Division II Winston-Salem State Rams won 2 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association football conference titles in 1999 and 2000. Blount's teams also appeared in the post-season Pioneer Bowl in 1999 and 2000. He compiled a record of 91–87–3, making him currently the winningest coach in the history of the Winston-Salem State University Ram football program.

He was responsible to helping former Ram football players such as Richard Huntley, Oronde Gadsden, Tory Woodbury, and William Hayes reach the NFL as either late round draft picks or free agents. Out of this group of players, Hayes is the only one currently playing in the NFL for the St. Louis Rams.

After resigning as Head Coach after the 2009 season, Blount is was working as a Special Assistant to the Athletic Director at WSSU. The Rams football team was competing as a former transitional Division I-AA (now FCS) independent team, as WSSU's athletic program was planning to move up to the Mideastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) starting in 2006, but later decided to move back to Division II and back to the CIAA for the 2010–2011 athletic season.

Blount was named the coach at Delaware State on February 3, 2011.

External links

Delaware State profile

v t e Winston-Salem State Rams head football coaches

Howard K. Wilson (1941–1945) Clarence Gaines (1946–1949) Tom Conrad (1950–1969) Cleo Wallace (1970–1975) Bill Hayes (1976–1987) Pete Richardson (1988–1992) Kermit Blount (1993–2009) Connell Maynor (2010–2013)

Delaware State Hornets head football coaches

Unknown (1924–1930)
James Powell Calvin (1931)
John L. McKinley (1932)
Edward Jackson (1933–1939)
No team (1940)
Edward Jackson (1941–1942)
No team (1943)
Edward Jackson (1944–1945)
Tom Conrad (1946–1949)
Robert White (1950–1951)
Willard S. Jones (1952)
Edward Jackson (1953–1956)
Bennie J. George (1957–1959)
Preston Mitchell (1960)
Roy D. Moore (1961–1964)
Ulysses S. Washington (1965–1966)
Arnold Jeter (1967–1974)
Edmond Wyche (1975–1978)
Charles Henderson (1979–1980)
Joe Purzycki (1981–1984)
William Collick (1985–1996)
John McKenzie (1997–1999)
Ben Blacknall (2000–2003)
Butch Posey # (2003)
Al Lavan (2004–2010)
Kermit Blount (2011– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

v t e Current head football coaches of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

Brian Jenkins (Bethune-Cookman) Kermit Blount (Delaware State) Earl Holmes (Florida A&M) Connell Maynor (Hampton) Gary Harrell (Howard) Vacant (Morgan State) Pete Adrian (Norfolk State) Rod Broadway (North Carolina A&T) Jerry Mack (North Carolina Central) Oliver Pough (South Carolina State) Earnest Wilson (Savannah State)

Persondata
Name	Blount, Kermit
Alternative names
Short description	American football player and coach
Date of birth	May 16, 1958
Place of birth	Richmond, Virginia
Date of death
Place of death

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