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Leipold gets extension in Buffalo

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Former UW-Whitewater football coach Lance Leipold has agreed to a five-year contract extension with the University of Buffalo.  It comes following a season in which the Bulls won a school-record 10 games and made their third bowl appearance.

Leipold just finished his fourth season in Buffalo and carries a 23-27 overall record at the school.  He already ranks fourth on the schools coaching list for victories.  His new deal runs through 2023.

Leipold coached at Whitewater from 2007 through 2014, compiling a 109-6 overall record and a 53-3 conference mark.  He led the Warhawks to seven conference titles, seven national championship games and six national titles.

Leipold’s Buffalo team won the Mid-American Conference championship this past season, finishing 10-4 overall.

Leipold to be inducted into WFCA Hall of Fame

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Lance Leipold – Photo Courtesy of UW-Whitewater Athletics

Former UW-Whitewater head football coach Lance Leipold will be enshrined into the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame Class of 2018 on Saturday, March 24, in Middleton.

Leipold, who played quarterback for the Warhawks from 1983-86 and served as head coach of the program from 2007-14, will be the lone college coach in this year’s induction class.  Leipold recently finished his third season as head football coach at Division 1 Buffalo.

As the head coach at Whitewater, Leipold amassed a 109-6 record, leading the Warhawks to seven WIAC titles, six national championships and one other trip to the Stagg Bowl.  He became the fastest head coach in college football history to reach the 100-career win plateau, doing so in just 106 games.  Leipold won the WIAC George Chryst Coach of the Year award four times and is a six-time national coach of the year recipient.

 

Whitewater selects its new football coach

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New Whitewater coach Kevin Bullis - Photo-UW Whitewater Athletics

New Whitewater coach Kevin Bullis – Photo-UW Whitewater Athletics

With Lance Leipold moving on to become the head coach at the University of Buffalo, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has named Kevin Bullis as its new head coach.

Bullis served as a defensive assistant for the defending national champion Warhawks for seven seasons and has been interim coach during the school’s coaching search.

In a news release from the schools athletic director Amy Edmonds, she said, “We are thrilled to promote Kevin to the position of head football coach at UW-Whitewater.  His passion, integrity and understanding of [Read more…]

4th quarter comeback lifts Whitewater into NCAA semifinals

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Matt Behrendt

Matt Behrendt

5th-ranked Wartburg dominated the first three quarters of their NCAA Division 3 quarterfinal game at Whitewater and took a 33-16 lead into the fourth quarter.  That’s when the top-ranked Warhawks put their foot down and scored three unanswered touchdowns to pull out a 37-33 win at Perkins Stadium on Saturday.

The Warhawks reached the National semifinals by winning their 30th straight game, which is the longest active streak in any division of the NCAA.

Whitewater will face Linfield, which crushed Widener 45-7.  Mount Union will take on Wesley in the other semifinal.

Running back Dennis Moore started the fourth quarter comeback with a 57 yard touchdown play on the second play of the fourth quarter.  Then, after a Wartburg fumble, Warhawks quarterback Matt Behrendt hit tight end Derric Junakin for a 16-yard scoring strike to cut the gap to 33-30.

Behrendt hit Justin Howard for a 23-yard scoring strike to complete the comeback.  Behrendt finished 21 for 32 for 345 yards and four touchdowns.

It means coach Lance Leipold will be around for at least another week, before heading to Buffalo where he was named head coach at Buffalo University last week.

Leipold heading for Buffalo

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Lance Leipold

Lance Leipold

Lance Leipold led the UW-Whitewater Warhawks to 29-straight wins and a spot in the NCAA Division 3 football quarterfinals.  But Leipold is leaving after agreeing to become the head coach at the University of Buffalo.

Buffalo is expected to introduce Leipold at a news conference today.

The top-ranked Warhawks (12-0) beat Wabash, 38-14 in the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs on Saturday.  Whitewater faces No. 13 Wartburg (Iowa) in the quarterfinals this Saturday.

Buffalo fired fifth-year coach Jeff Quinn after an Oct. 11 loss to Eastern Michigan.  The Bulls were 3-4 at the time and Quinn was 20-36 overall at the school.  Offensive coordinator Alex Wood finished out the season as interim head coach.

Division 1 Buffalo has been a member of the Mid-American Conference since 1998.

The Warhawks have advanced to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the NCAA Division III title game, six times and won five of them.  The last coming back in 2013.

Whitewater claims 5th National title

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After a year off, the UW-Whitewater Warhawks capped off a perfect season (15-0) with a 52-14 win over Mount Union at the 41st Amos Alonzo

MVP Matt Behrendt

MVP Matt Behrendt

Stagg Bowl (Division 3 Championship) in Salem, Virginia.

It’s the 5th National Championship victory for the Warhawks and their 4th in the last 5 years.

Whitewater quarterback Matt Behrendt capped off the game with the Most Valuable Player award, completing 20 of 28 for 249 yards and four touchdowns.  Behrendt finished with a school-record 40 touchdown passes, throwing just 1 interception.

The Warhawks defense did a number on Mount Union, holding the Purple Raiders to 32 yards rushing on 27 carries.

Since taking over at Whitewater, coach Lance Leipold is 94-6 and even more impressive is his 33-1 mark in NCAA Tournament play.

 

Warhawks take a step closer to another conference title

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UW-Whitewater followed up last weeks win over Oshkosh with a 35-16 win over UW-Platteville this Saturday.

The Warhawks (8-0, 5-0) grabbed sole possession of first place in the WIAC and can clinch at least a share of their 33rd conference championship with a win at Stevens Point on Saturday.  Stevens Point beat Whitewater last year as the Warhawks finished
7-3 and missed the NCAA Tournament playoffs.

Even if the Warhawks would lose to Stevens Point again, beating River Falls the following week at home would still get Whitewater the title.

Whitewater’s bump in the road last season ended a string of seven straight WIAC titles.

AUDIO: Warhawk coach Lance Leipold on the chance to clinch at Point this week :13

 

Whitewater’s Leipold interviewing at Austin Peay

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UW-Whitewater football coach Lance Leipold is set to interview for the vacant head-

Lance Leipold

Lance Leipold

coaching position at Austin Peay, which is a Football Championship Subdivision school that competes in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Leipold led the Warhawks to four NCAA Division III football titles in his first five years on the job.  In six seasons, Leipold has a 79-6 career mark.

Leipold is scheduled to interview for the
position on March 14.

Former Wisconsin assistant Mike Markuson
is set to interview for the post next week.

Whitewater’s 46-game win streak is over

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College football’s longest active win streak is history after UW-Whitewater fell

Lance Leipold

7-6 to Buffalo State at home on Saturday.

The loss stopped the Warhawks 46-game overall win streak and the schools 30-game win streak at Perkins Stadium.

Casey Kacz hit Ryan Carney for a 10-yard touchdown pass with 3 seconds left to play to pull off the upset.

AUDIO: WW coach Lance Leipold on the loss :21

The six points scored by the Warhawks is the team’s low mark since a 7-6 loss at UW-Platteville on October 2, 2004.

The loss dropped the Warhawks down to 4th in the D3-Top 25 College Football Poll.

Warhawks to kick off their 2012 football season in St. Louis

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Three-time defending NCAA Division III Champion UW-Whitewater will open the 2012 season at Washington University in St. Louis on Friday, August 31.  They’ll play their home opener two weeks later, Saturday, Sept. 15 against Buffalo State College against Perkins Stadium.

UW-Whitewater has won a record seven consecutive WIAC championships.  For the last seven years, UW-Whitewater has also advanced through four rounds of NCAA Division III playoffs to reach the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the Division III championship game in Salem, Virginia. 

Whitewater won its first national championship in 2007, and followed with titles in 2009, 2010 and 2011.  Leipold’s five-year record at Whitewater is 72-3 overall and 34-1 in conference play.  The Warhawks 45-game win streak is the longest active streak at any level of college football.  The streak is the fifth longest in the history of the NCAA.