Tommy Tate

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Tommy Tate
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Crowley HS (LA)
Biographical details
Born (1956-02-26) February 26, 1956
Washington, Louisiana
Playing career
1975–1978 McNeese State
Position(s) Defensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1979–1999 McNeese State (asst/DC)
2000–2006 McNeese State
2007–present Crowley HS (LA)
Head coaching record
Overall 49–26

Statistics

Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Southland Conference Champions (2001–03)
Awards
2002 Eddie Robinson Award winner
2002 Louisiana Coach of the Year
2002 New Orleans Hall of Fame Coach of the Year

Thomas "Tommy" Tate (born February 26, 1956) was the head football coach for the McNeese State University Cowboys football team from 2000 to 2006. He compiled a record of 49–26. Tate was given the Eddie Robinson Award in 2002 as the top NCAA Division I-AA College Football Coach of the Year when he guided the Cowboys to a 12–2 record and an appearance in the Division I-AA National Championship, where his team would ultimately finished as national runners-up. Tate would later be fired in the middle of the 2006 season after the Cowboys started 1–3. He was replaced by Matt Viator who coached McNeese to a 6–2 record the rest of the way (finishing 7–5) and earn the school another Southland Conference title.

Early life

Tate hails from Washington, Louisiana. He graduated from Port Barre High School in Point Barre in 1974.

Head coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs TSN#
McNeese State Cowboys (Southland Conference) (2000–2006)
2000 McNeese State 8–4 L 17–42 Division I-AA First Round
2001 McNeese State 8–4 1st-t L 10–14 Division I-AA First Round
2002 McNeese State 13-2 1st L 14–34 Division I-AA National Championship
2003 McNeese State 10–2 1st L 3–35 Division I-AA First Round
2004 McNeese State 4–7
2005 McNeese State 5–4 3rd
2006 McNeese State 1–3
Total: 49–26
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title
#The Sports Network FCS final poll.
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