Meet your next coach.... Bill Maskill
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:20 pmTHIS JUST IN.... Straight off the website... Bill Maskill to be named new coach at SMU.
This is a great hire for us. You guys remember how pumped he used to get us for our inter-squad scrimmages!
Welcome back to the Hilltop Bill!
Bill Maskill
Head Coach
Alma Mater: Western Kentucky '71
E-mail: [email protected]
Bill Maskill was hired as the 12th head football coach and fourth of the modern era (since 1988) in March of 2002.
During his five seasons at the helm, MSU has posted a record of 38-17 making him the winning coach in Midwestern both in terms of total wins and winning percentage while reaching the NCAA Division II postseason in two of the past three seasons (2004, 2006).
Those teams were two of the most successful squads in school history. Last season, the Mustangs won 10 games for the first time since 1949, while the 2004 team was the first to compile nine victories and advance to the postseason since 1991, when the then-Indians advanced to the NAIA Division II national quarterfinals.
In all, Maskill has coached an all-america pick, 17 all-region selections and 26 All-Lone Star Conference first teamers in his fives seasons since moving to Wichita Falls.
Maskill is entering his 37th year as a football coach. His coaching experience includes stops as a Division I assistant at Vanderbilt (twice), Southern Methodist, Wake Forest, Oregon, Tulane, Louisville, Arizona State, Bowling Green and Iowa.
He served as a head coach at Southeast Missouri State University in 1988 and 1989. His two-year record at the Cape Girardeau, Mo. school was 13-8 with his 1989 squad winning a share of the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship. While at SEMO, Maskill helped two men, Jon Gruden and Marty Mornhinweg, who later became head coaches in the National Football League, get their start.
Maskill comes from a great coaching background. His father, Bill, Sr., is considered to be one of the greatest high school football coaches in the history of the state of Michigan. First at Sheridan then at Augusta High School in Galesburg, Mich., the elder Maskill coached for 39 years until retiring in 1991. At the time of his retirement, he was the winningest high school football coach in the state’s history. He amassed 274 wins, 18 league championships and four state titles. He was named coach of the year on numerous occasions and is a member of the Michigan High School Coaches’ Hall of Fame.
Maskill played college football at Western Kentucky, where he quarterbacked while earning bachelor’s degrees in Physical Education and Biology.
Maskill and his wife, Mary Helen, have two grown children: a son, Hunter; and a daughter, Jaime.
This is a great hire for us. You guys remember how pumped he used to get us for our inter-squad scrimmages!
Welcome back to the Hilltop Bill!
Bill Maskill
Head Coach
Alma Mater: Western Kentucky '71
E-mail: [email protected]
Bill Maskill was hired as the 12th head football coach and fourth of the modern era (since 1988) in March of 2002.
During his five seasons at the helm, MSU has posted a record of 38-17 making him the winning coach in Midwestern both in terms of total wins and winning percentage while reaching the NCAA Division II postseason in two of the past three seasons (2004, 2006).
Those teams were two of the most successful squads in school history. Last season, the Mustangs won 10 games for the first time since 1949, while the 2004 team was the first to compile nine victories and advance to the postseason since 1991, when the then-Indians advanced to the NAIA Division II national quarterfinals.
In all, Maskill has coached an all-america pick, 17 all-region selections and 26 All-Lone Star Conference first teamers in his fives seasons since moving to Wichita Falls.
Maskill is entering his 37th year as a football coach. His coaching experience includes stops as a Division I assistant at Vanderbilt (twice), Southern Methodist, Wake Forest, Oregon, Tulane, Louisville, Arizona State, Bowling Green and Iowa.
He served as a head coach at Southeast Missouri State University in 1988 and 1989. His two-year record at the Cape Girardeau, Mo. school was 13-8 with his 1989 squad winning a share of the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship. While at SEMO, Maskill helped two men, Jon Gruden and Marty Mornhinweg, who later became head coaches in the National Football League, get their start.
Maskill comes from a great coaching background. His father, Bill, Sr., is considered to be one of the greatest high school football coaches in the history of the state of Michigan. First at Sheridan then at Augusta High School in Galesburg, Mich., the elder Maskill coached for 39 years until retiring in 1991. At the time of his retirement, he was the winningest high school football coach in the state’s history. He amassed 274 wins, 18 league championships and four state titles. He was named coach of the year on numerous occasions and is a member of the Michigan High School Coaches’ Hall of Fame.
Maskill played college football at Western Kentucky, where he quarterbacked while earning bachelor’s degrees in Physical Education and Biology.
Maskill and his wife, Mary Helen, have two grown children: a son, Hunter; and a daughter, Jaime.
