http://www.tribeathletics.com/news/2018/...egacy.aspx

Hope he goes out w/ a decent season. He's had a great career and I hate to see guys like that finish up w/ a couple of bad seasons.

Longest active Div I HC. Laycock, 70, became W&M’s HC back in 1980.

“His teams are 245-188-2 in 38 seasons, and here are just a few milestones associated with that record:

•Laycock’s uninterrupted tenure at a NCAA Division I program ranks third all-time to Joe Paterno’s 46 seasons at Penn State and Amos Alonzo Stagg’s 41 at the University of Chicago. Eddie Robinson and Bob Ford had longer runs at Grambling and Albany, respectively, but those programs were not Division I throughout.
long.

• No Virginia college football coach in any division has guided a school to as many victories or for as long.

• Among active coaches in any division nationally, only Denny Douds at Division II East Stroudsburg in Pennsylvania has more wins (263) or more continuous years on the job (45).“
http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt-...story.html

I’ve always admired how Laycock has done more with less, but as his program added huge investments over the last 10 to 15 years he lost his magic touch. He has had some strong seasons in that recent timeframe , but he has also had many losing seasons. Much of that has been his inability to find excellent QB’s. He used to be a QB whisperer.

Looking forward to coach Mike Houston beating JM's tenure record

(08-05-2018 09:05 PM)BDKJMU Wrote:  Longest active Div I HC. Laycock, 70, became W&M’s HC back in 1975.

“His teams are 245-188-2 in 38 seasons, and here are just a few milestones associated with that record:

•Laycock’s uninterrupted tenure at a NCAA Division I program ranks third all-time to Joe Paterno’s 46 seasons at Penn State and Amos Alonzo Stagg’s 41 at the University of Chicago. Eddie Robinson and Bob Ford had longer runs at Grambling and Albany, respectively, but those programs were not Division I throughout.
long.

• No Virginia college football coach in any division has guided a school to as many victories or for as long.

• Among active coaches in any division nationally, only Denny Douds at Division II East Stroudsburg in Pennsylvania has more wins (263) or more continuous years on the job (45).“
http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt-...story.html

Not to BDK you Doug but I'm pretty sure it was 1979 (first season was 1980)

(08-06-2018 07:51 AM)DirtyDukes Wrote:  

(08-05-2018 09:05 PM)BDKJMU Wrote:  Longest active Div I HC. Laycock, 70, became W&M’s HC back in 1975.

“His teams are 245-188-2 in 38 seasons, and here are just a few milestones associated with that record:

•Laycock’s uninterrupted tenure at a NCAA Division I program ranks third all-time to Joe Paterno’s 46 seasons at Penn State and Amos Alonzo Stagg’s 41 at the University of Chicago. Eddie Robinson and Bob Ford had longer runs at Grambling and Albany, respectively, but those programs were not Division I throughout.
long.

• No Virginia college football coach in any division has guided a school to as many victories or for as long.

• Among active coaches in any division nationally, only Denny Douds at Division II East Stroudsburg in Pennsylvania has more wins (263) or more continuous years on the job (45).“
http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt-...story.html

Not to BDK you Doug but I'm pretty sure it was 1979 (first season was 1980)

Just read an article on his retirement and saw 1980 and thought oh crap I wrote 1975. You beat me to it.

Steelers HC, Mike Tomlin, talks about his mentor and former HC at W&M... https://www.pennlive.com/steelers/index....ycock.html

(08-05-2018 09:01 PM)olddawg Wrote:  Hope he goes out w/ a decent season. He's had a great career and I hate to see guys like that finish up w/ a couple of bad seasons.

A prime example of a legendary coach who stayed a few seasons too long. He shpuld have retired after the 2015 season, his last winning (and playoff) season, when they finished 8-3/6-2 regular season, 3 way tie for 1st in the CAA, 9-4 overall.

The last 2 seasons have been 5-6/3-5, and 2-9/0-8. Before the Laycock announcement I was predicting them 3-8/2-6. ‘Win one for the coach’ might get them 1 or 2 more wins, but I would be stunned if they finished with a winning record..

Laycock apparently had a big group of former players attend the Richmond game. Like several hundred is what I was told. Pretty awesome.

Of course the Spatters ruined it. Would have been his 250th win. What a bunch of deyocs.