L. C. Cole

L. C. Cole
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football
Born	(1956-01-03) January 3, 1956 Springfield, Ohio
Alma mater	Nebraska
Playing career
1978–1979	Nebraska
Position(s)	Defensive end
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984–1985	Ball State (assistant)
1986–1987	Kansas State (assistant)
1988–1989	Wisconsin (OLB)
1990	Toledo (RB)
1991–1992	Morgan State (DC)
1993	Eastern Michigan (assistant)
1994–1995	Cincinnati (RB)
1996–1999	Tennessee State
2000–2002	Alabama State
2006–2007	Sidney Lanier (AL) HS
2008	Texas Southern (DC)
2009–2010	Stillman
2011	Concordia (DC)
2012–2013	Wilcox Central (AL) HS
2014	Central High School (Phenix City, Alabama) (DC)
2015-present	Fairfield (AL) HS
Head coaching record
Overall	41–48 (14 wins vacated)
Tournaments	0–2 (NCAA D-I-AA playoffs)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2 OVC (1998, 1999)
Awards
2× OVC Coach of the Year (1998, 1999)

Lawrence "L. C." Cole (born January 3, 1956) is an American football coach and former player. He was the 18th head football coach for the Tennessee State University Tigers located in Nashville, Tennessee and he held that position for four seasons, from 1996 until 1999. His career coaching record at Tennessee State was 28 wins, 18 losses, and 0 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him fifth at Tennessee State in total wins and ninth at Tennessee State in winning percentage (.609).^[1]

After a successful, but controversial, stint as head coach at Alabama State University, Cole revived the storied football program at Montgomery, Alabama's Sidney Lanier High School; during Cole's two years at Lanier, the Poets won the City Championship each year, and they never lost to a city opponent. Lanier reached the state playoffs each year, making it to the quarterfinals in 2006. On December 3, 2008, Cole was announced as Stillman College's third head coach since the reinstatement of the program in 1999 in replacing Greg Thompson.^[2] Following the 2010 season, Cole was fired as head coach, and replaced with Stillman alumnus Teddy Keaton.^[3]

Personnel

Lawrence Cole has a wife, Mitzi Ann Parker Cole, and a son, Lawrence Timothy Clay Cole. His wife was born in Madison, Wisconsin. His son is from Nashville, Tennessee. His parents are Ruby Cole and Timothy Cole. He was the fourth of nine brothers.

Cole went to the University of Nebraska 1975-1979 and coached there through 1982 under Tom Osborne.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Rank^#
Tennessee State Tigers (Ohio Valley Conference) (1996–1999)
1996	Tennessee State	4–7	3–5	T–6th
1997	Tennessee State	4–7	4–3	T–4th
1998	Tennessee State	9–3	6–1	1st	L NCAA Division I-AA First Round	12
1999	Tennessee State	11–1	7–0	1st	L NCAA Division I-AA First Round	11
Tennessee State:		28–18	20–9
Alabama State Hornets (Southwestern Athletic Conference) (2000–2002)
2000	Alabama State	0–5 (6–5)	0–2 (5–2)	T–1st (Eastern)
2001	Alabama State	0–4 (8–4)	0–1 (6–1)	1st (Eastern)
2002	Alabama State	6–6	2–5	5th (Eastern)
Alabama State:		6–15 (20–15)	2–8 (13–8)
Stillman Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (2009–2010)
2009	Stillman	4–7	2–7	9th
2010	Stillman	3–8	2–7	T–8th
Stillman:		7–15	4–14
Total:		41–48 (55–48)
National championship Conference title Conference division title
^#Rankings from final Sports Network poll.

References

↑ Tennessee State University coaching records
↑ Carroll, Andrew (December 4, 2008). "L.C. Cole is Stillman Tigers’ new head football coach". The Tuscaloosa News.
↑ Carroll, Andrew (December 8, 2010). "Keaton enthusiastic about Stillman College job". The Tuscaloosa News.

Tennessee State Tigers head football coaches

Buck Hunt (1916)
No team (1917–1921)
Joe E. Scruggs (1922–1924)
George Davenport (1925–1926)
Caesar Felton Gayles (1927)
Harry Long (1928)
Alton Jackson (1929)
T. D. Upshaw (1930–1931)
Unknown (1932)
Walter S. Davis (1933–1936)
Reubin Munday (1937–1939)
Unknown (1940)
No team (1941–1943)
Henry Kean (1944–1954)
Howard C. Gentry (1955–1960)
Lawrence Simmons (1961–1962)
John Merritt (1963–1983)
William A. Thomas (1984–1988)
Joe Gilliam, Sr. (1989–1992)
Bill Davis (1993–1995)
L. C. Cole (1996–1999)
James Reese (2000–2004)
James Webster (2005–2009)
Rod Reed (2010– )

Alabama State Hornets head football coaches

Unknown (1901)
Theodore Bradford (1902)
No team (1903)
Theodore Bradford (1904)
J. A. Welton (1905)
Unknown (1906–1908)
John Hope (1909–1911)
No team (1912–1913)
John Hope (1914–1916)
Professor Kilpatrick (1917–1918)
No team (1919–1920)
Ralph Harris (1921–1924)
Bertrand C. Jacobs (1925–1927)
Guston F. Lewis (1928–1933)
Rufus A. Lewis (1934–1942)
John Brown (1943)
George H. Lockhart (1944)
John Brown (1945–1948)
James H. Dixon (1949–1951)
Arthur E. Simmons (1952–1961)
C. E. Anderson (1962)
Marino Casem (1963)
Whitney L. Van Cleve (1964–1968)
Henry Holbert (1969–1972)
Willie Parker (1973–1975)
George James, Jr. (1976–1983)
Willie Parker (1984)
Ron Mitchell # (1985)
Willie Parker (1986)
Houston Markham (1987–1997)
Ron Dickerson (1998–1999)
L. C. Cole (2000–2002)
Charles Coe (2003–2006)
Reggie Barlow (2007–2014)
Brian Jenkins (2015–)

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Stillman Tigers head football coaches

Theophilus Danzy (1999–2005) Greg Thompson (2006–2008) L. C. Cole (2009–2010) Teddy Keaton (2011– )

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