Kirby is a former all-Pennsylvania Athletic Conference performer at Marywood and spent the past two seasons as a volunteer assistant there. Steve Gilbert named head coach at Jacksonville after nine years as head coach at Ursinus. Akron extended the contract of head coach Lee Owens for three years, to 2002. La Salle appointed Bill Manlove to bring its football program out of a 56-year hiatus. Coast Guard athletics director Chuck Mills given additional duties as head football coach.
Mills is considered the father of modern Japanese college football.
Mike Donnelly named head coach at Muhlenberg. Donnelly was an assistant for the past four years at Columbia. Dave Voth named offensive line coach at Western Michigan. Carl Jackson selected as running backs coach at Texas. Gary Emanuel hired as defensive tackles coach at Purdue.