Tommy Tate

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Tommy Tate
Sport(s)	Football
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Crowley HS (LA)
Biographical details
Born	(1956-02-26) February 26, 1956 Washington, Louisiana
Playing career
1975–1978	McNeese State
Position(s)	Defensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1979–1999 2000–2006 2007–present	McNeese State (asst/DC) McNeese State Crowley HS (LA)
Head coaching record
Overall	49–26
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships 3× Southland Conference Champions (2001–03)
Awards 2002 Eddie Robinson Award winner 2002 Louisiana Coach of the Year 2002 New Orleans Hall of Fame Coach of the Year

Thomas "Tommy" Tate (born February 26, 1956) was the head football coach for the McNeese State University Cowboys football team from 2000 to 2006. He compiled a record of 49–26. Tate was given the Eddie Robinson Award in 2002 as the top NCAA Division I-AA College Football Coach of the Year when he guided the Cowboys to a 12–2 record and an appearance in the Division I-AA National Championship, where his team would ultimately finished as national runners-up. Tate would later be fired in the middle of the 2006 season after the Cowboys started 1–3. He was replaced by Matt Viator who coached McNeese to a 6–2 record the rest of the way (finishing 7–5) and earn the school another Southland Conference title.

Early life

Tate hails from Washington, Louisiana. He graduated from Port Barre High School in Point Barre in 1974.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
McNeese State Cowboys (Southland Conference) (2000–2006)
2000	McNeese State	8–4		L 17–42 Division I-AA First Round
2001	McNeese State	8–4	1st-t	L 10–14 Division I-AA First Round
2002	McNeese State	13-2	1st	L 14–34 Division I-AA National Championship
2003	McNeese State	10–2	1st	L 3–35 Division I-AA First Round
2004	McNeese State	4–7
2005	McNeese State	5–4	3rd
2006	McNeese State	1–3
Total:		49–26
National championship Conference title Conference division title
^#The Sports Network FCS final poll.

McNeese State Cowboys head football coaches

Wayne Cusic (1940)
No team (1941–1944)
Wayne Cusic (1945)
A. I. Ratcliff (1946–1954)
John Gregory (1955–1956)
Les DeVall (1957–1965)
Jim Clark (1966–1969)
Jack Doland (1970–1978)
Ernie Duplechin (1979–1981)
Hubert Boales (1982)
John McCann (1983–1986)
Sonny Jackson (1987–1989)
Bobby Keasler (1990–1998)
Kirby Bruchhaus (1999)
Tommy Tate (2000–2006)
Matt Viator (2006– )

v t e Eddie Robinson Award winners

1987: Duffner 1988: Russo 1989: Russell 1990: McDowell 1991: Ault 1992: Taaffe 1993: Allen 1994: Tressel 1995: Nutt 1996: Barbier 1997: Talley 1998: Johnson 1999: Matthews 2000: Glenn 2001: Lembo 2002: Tate 2003: Ayers 2004: Kill 2005: McDonnell 2006: Moore 2007: Farley 2008: Matthews 2009: Frazier 2010: Samuel 2011: Ambrose 2012: Bohl 2013: Bohl

Authority control	VIAF: 31608296

Persondata
Name	Tate, Tommy
Alternative names
Short description	American football player and coach
Date of birth	February 26, 1956
Place of birth	Washington, Louisiana
Date of death
Place of death

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