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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . " After two years at Lakeland Enos moved on to Division II Northern Michigan University , where he spent a year as offensive coordinator . Central Michigan University . On January 12 , 2010 , Enos was introduced as the new head coach at Central Michigan University , replacing Butch Jones , who left after three seasons to replace Brian Kelly at the University of Cincinnati . 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 . Despite a 2 - 1 start in 2012 and an upset victory on the road over the University of Iowa , 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 . 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 . 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 .