Matt Viator

Matt Viator
Current position
Sport(s)	Football
Title	Head coach
Team	Louisiana–Monroe
Conference	Sun Belt
Record	0–0
Biographical details
Born	(1963-09-03) September 3, 1963
Alma mater	McNeese State University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1986–1988	Sam Houston HS (LA) (Assistant)
1989–1990	Vinton HS (LA)
1991–1994	Jennings HS (LA)
1995–1998	Sulphur HS (LA)
1999	McNeese State (LB)
2000–2006	McNeese State (OC)
2006–2015	McNeese State
2016–present	Louisiana–Monroe
Head coaching record
Overall	77–33 (college)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Matt Viator (born September 3, 1963) is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.^[1]^[2] He served as the head football coach at McNeese State University from 2006 to 2015. He began his coaching career in 1986 as a high school assistant coach, before leading several high schools in southwestern Louisiana as a head coach. Viator began his college coaching career at McNeese State in 1999, and was elevated to head coach four games into the 2006 season after the firing of Tommy Tate.^[3]

Head coaching record

College

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
McNeese State Cowboys (Southland Conference) (2006–2015)
2006	McNeese State	6–2	5–1	1st	L FCS Playoffs First Round
2007	McNeese State	11–1	7–0	1st	L FCS Playoffs First Round
2008	McNeese State	7–4	4–3	T–3rd
2009	McNeese State	9–3	6–1	T–1st	L FCS Playoffs First Round
2010	McNeese State	6–5	5–2	2nd
2011	McNeese State	6–5	4–3	4th
2012	McNeese State	7–4	4–3	T–4th
2013	McNeese State	10–3	6–1	2nd	L FCS Playoffs Second Round
2014	McNeese State	6–5	4–4	T–6th
2015	McNeese State	10–1	9–0	1st	L FCS Playoffs Second Round
McNeese State:		78–33	54–18
Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks (Sun Belt Conference) (2016–present)
2016	Louisiana–Monroe	0–0	0–0
Louisiana–Monroe:		0–0	0–0
Total:		78–33
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

↑ Hunsucker, Adam (December 15, 2015). "Viator “excited” to be ULM’s new football coach". The News-Star (Monroe). Archived from the original on December 16, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
↑ Hunsucker, Adam (December 15, 2015). "Viator ready for challenge of rebuilding ULM". The News-Star (Monroe). Archived from the original on December 16, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
↑ Stark, Cody (October 5, 2006). "McNeese fires Tate after only 4 games". The Huntsville Item (Huntsville, Texas). Retrieved January 11, 2012.

External links

Louisiana–Monroe profile

McNeese State Cowboys head football coaches

Wayne Cusic (1940)
No team (1941–1944)
Wayne Cusic (1945)
A. I. Ratcliff (1946–1954)
John Gregory (1955–1956)
Les DeVall (1957–1965)
Jim Clark (1966–1969)
Jack Doland (1970–1978)
Ernie Duplechin (1979–1981)
Hubert Boales (1982)
John McCann (1983–1986)
Sonny Jackson (1987–1989)
Bobby Keasler (1990–1998)
Kirby Bruchhaus (1999)
Tommy Tate (2000–2006)
Matt Viator (2006–2015)
Lance Guidry (2016– )

Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks head football coaches

James L. Malone (1951–1953)
Devone Payne (1954–1957)
Jack C. Rowan (1958–1963)
Dixie B. White (1964–1971)
Ollie Keller (1972–1975)
John David Crow (1976–1980)
Pat Collins (1981–1988)
Dave Roberts (1989–1993)
Ed Zaunbrecher (1994–1998)
Bobby Keasler (1999–2002)
Mike Collins # (2002)
Charlie Weatherbie (2003–2009)
Todd Berry (2010–2015)
John Mumford # (2015)
Matt Viator (2016– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Current head football coaches of the Sun Belt Conference

Scott Satterfield (Appalachian State) Blake Anderson (Arkansas State) Tyson Summers (Georgia Southern) Trent Miles (Georgia State) Paul Petrino (Idaho) Mark Hudspeth (Louisiana–Lafayette) Matt Viator (Louisiana–Monroe) Doug Martin (New Mexico State) Joey Jones (South Alabama) Everett Withers (Texas State) Neal Brown (Troy)

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