McCarty resigns as Tabor head football coach
Tabor College head football coach Tim McCarty has resigned after five years of building a struggling 0-10 program to a nationally-ranked 9-2 program, according to athletic director Don Brubacher.
McCarty has accepted the position of head football coach at East Central University, Ada, Okla., effective immediately.
"My family weighed the decision heavily," said McCarty. "It's a move that is better for my family and better for my career."
Brubacher said, "The Tabor athletic program is grateful for his work. He has accomplished what many thought was impossible. He developed a Tabor College football program that had a large roster filled with student-athletes who represented our college extremely well on and off the field, and also was very successful competitively."
McCarty is quick to credit those student-athletes for the accomplishments he and his team have witnessed during the past five years.
"I'm most proud of the kids who stayed with our football program and who led it to success," McCarty said. "They proved that we could come together, accept the challenge, and put together a great program."
The Bluejays saw their best season this past fall end in the first round of national playoffs against Northwest Oklahoma State University.
McCarty was named Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) Coach of the Year and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Coach of the Year by NAIAfootball.net in 2003.
McCarty will take the reins of the ECU Tigers, an NCAA Division II football program in the Lonestar Conference covering eastern New Mexico and all of Texas and Oklahoma. The past season saw the Tigers finish 3-8. McCarty is up to the challenge of building another team.
