Props the new Uni of Buffalo coach having as many National Championships as career losses!

[LambeauLegs]

Congrats to Lance Leipold for making the jump from D3 to the University of Buffalo. He played high school in the town my mom now lives in and currently still lives there. He went to college at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater and was also the coach at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater for the last 8 years after taking over after being an assistant for the coach who coached him when he played for the team during his college years.

Its nice to see a local guy get a chance to move up and will be interesting to see how far he can go. UW Whitewater has the nations longest winning streak at 32 games. Leipold's career record is 109 -6 while winning 6 D3 national championships along the way. He is also the fastest coach to win 100 career games doing so in his 106th game.

Mount Union has to be happy coach Leipold is moving up.

2014 Stagg Bowl final score: UW-Whitewater wins 6th D3 national title, 43-34 - SBNation.com

This was the ninth time in the last 10 years that Wisconsin-Whitewater and Mount Union have met for the Division III championship. Warhawks head coach Lance Leipold now takes six national title rings to the MAC.

Wisconsin-Whitewater has won the latest meeting between the two programs that have completely dominated the last decade of Division III football, beating Mount Union in Salem, Virginia for the second year in a row.
And so concludes one fourth of the NCAA's football season, with the near-annual championship war between these two schools on hold, perhaps until next year. Over their decade-long struggle, Mount Union now has four title wins (including a 2012 win over St. Thomas, which is curiously not Wisconsin-Whitewater) to UWW's six.

The Warhawks also extend their winning streak, already the longest in all of college football, to 32 games. It's just Mount Union's sixth loss in any game since the beginning of the 2006 season -- and all six of those losses have come to the Warhawks in the Stagg Bowl.

This game marks the end of an era at UW-Whitewater, as head coach Lance Leipold is leaving the program to take the head coaching job at Buffalo, making the jump all the way from Division III to FBS. The former Warhawk quarterback's career in Whitewater ends with a head coaching record of 109-6. That is not a typo.

The Purple Raiders came as close to beating UWW as they have in years, but a string of mistakes gave the Warhawks too many opportunities. Mount Union quarterback Kevin Burke, the two-time D3 player of the year, was picked off five times all year entering the weekend, but four times Friday night. A 370-yard day by quarterback Matt Behrendt and 198 yards from scrimmage by Dennis Moore led the way for the Warhawks.

Head coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP° Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks (Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (2007–2014)

2007 Wisconsin–Whitewater 14–1 1st W NCAA Division III Championship

2008 Wisconsin–Whitewater 13–2 1st L NCAA Division III Championship

2009 Wisconsin–Whitewater 15–0 1st W NCAA Division III Championship

2010 Wisconsin–Whitewater 15–0 1st W NCAA Division III Championship

2011 Wisconsin–Whitewater 15–0 1st W NCAA Division III Championship

2012 Wisconsin–Whitewater 7–3

2013 Wisconsin–Whitewater 15–0 1st W NCAA Division III Championship

2014 Wisconsin–Whitewater 15–0 1st W NCAA Division III Championship

Wisconsin–Whitewater: 109–6

 

[wiskyisgood12]

Never thought he'd leave UWW, but I'm genuinely happy for you. I got to meet him once during a homecoming week my sophmore year at UWW(his 2nd year as our coach), very nice guy and great football coach.

Best of luck to him and Coach Borland and everyone else Coach Leipold brought with him from UWW. I

 

[WABLTY]

Did all the guys that weren't quite good enough for D1 and didn't want to play D2 that used to play for Gagliardi at St. John's start going to UWW or something? That record is nuts.

 

[LambeauLegs]

Did all the guys that weren't quite good enough for D1 and didn't want to play D2 that used to play for Gagliardi at St. John's start going to UWW or something? That record is nuts.

Ah they were pretty good before Lance Leipold took over. The coach before him turned them into a D3 power house and made their first 2 national championship games but lost both to Mount Union in 2005 and 2006. When he retired Leipold was able to keep it going starting the record mentioned above. What was interesting was that the Mount Union team has been a D3 power house for many years being in the national championship 17 of the last 19 years but Whitewater has had the better of them the last 7 or 8 years.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

Can't wait to see what he can do at Buffalo, I feel like he'll have lots of success.