Wayne State football: Paul Winters no longer head coach after 19 years
Wayne State football will have a new head coach next season for the first time in two decades.
Paul Winters is no longer coach after 19 years, a spokesperson for the university confirmed Friday.
The Warriors went 1-9 this season, 0-6 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and lost their final eight games. They went 2-9 in 2021.
Winters finishes with a 94-105 record at Wayne State since taking over after the 2003 season (18 seasons), with a 79-90 record in conference play. The program had its 2020 season canceled due to COVID-19, after going 8-3 the year before and defeating Grand Valley State for the first time since 1984.
Winters, a three-time GLIAC coach of the year (2006, 2008, 2019), led the Warriors to a remarkable run to the Division II national championship game in 2011, winning four playoff road games before losing 35-21 to Pittsburg State in the title game in Florence, Alabama. The Warriors made the postseason for the first time in program history and went a school-record 12-4, and Winters was named Division II national coach of the year by the American Football Coaches Association.
Wayne State had seven winning seasons in nine years from 2008-16.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Wayne State football: Paul Winters no longer head coach
