Chuck Broyles
Head Coach
Chuck Broyles enters his 18th season as head football coach and his 10th year as athletic director at Pittsburg State University.
Broyles, 60, has guided the Gorillas to the NCAA
Division II playoffs in 14 of his 17 seasons as head coach, including
four berths in the Division II Championship Game ('91, '92, '95, '04)
and the 1991 NCAA Division II National Championship.
As athletic director, he continues to make his mark as a strong administrative leader, pushing the department forward among the upper echelon of NCAA Division II institutions.
Broyles: Portfolio of Success
With a 174-36-2 overall record (.825) at the Pitt State helm, Broyles is the winningest active NCAA-II football coach (by percentage) and the third-winningest collegiate coach in the country at any level.
Broyles' list of milestone coaching accomplishments
continues to lengthen:
•• On Oct. 23, 1999, Broyles became the first collegiate coach
since the late 1800s to reach his 100th coaching victory in less than
10 full seasons when PSU beat Washburn, 27-8, at Topeka.
•• On Oct. 30, 1999, Broyles passed UMR's Charlie Finley to
become the winningest head coach in MIAA history, ironically, with a 62-0
win against UMR.
•• On Sept. 29, 2002, Broyles passed Carnie Smith as PSU's
all-time winningest head coach by recording his 117th career coaching
victory in a 35-13 win against Missouri Southern at Joplin.
During his 17-year tenure, Pitt
State has won more games (174) than any NCAA-II football program, and
PSU had the fifth-highest victory total of all collegiate teams in the
1990s -- behind only Division III affiliate Mt. Union, Ohio (108), former
Division I-AA (now Div. I-A) power Marshall (101) and Division I stalwarts
Florida State (97) and Nebraska (96).
PSU has posted a 154-23-2 record (.866) in regular season play under Broyles, including a 132-19-1 MIAA mark (.866) and nine conference titles.
By capturing the 2004 MIAA Championship, Broyles
passed Truman's Maurice "Red" Wade (1951-66) atop the MIAA's
list of conference championship coaches with nine league titles.
The Gorillas are 18-13 (.581) in 14 trips to the NCAA-II playoffs under his guidance, including a perfect 4-0 mark in 1991 when PSU won the national title.
Broyles served as the chair of the NCAA Football Rules Committee, which administers all levels of NCAA Football (Division I, II and III) from 2004-06, overseeing the committee as it dealt with a rigorous work load that included the implementation of instant replay and major changes to rules relating to the play clock for the 2006 season.
Broyles: The Athletic Administrator
Since being named athletic director on Dec. 17, 1996, Broyles has seen continual growth in the department.
Under his leadership, PSU's annual scholarship & fund drive has eclipsed
$225,000 the last five years, raising more than $300,000 each of the last
two years.
Major facility enhancements have taken place during
Broyles' tenure, with several other projects still in the works:
•• Brandenburg Field took on a new look in 2002 when its natural grass surface was replaced with the state-of-the-art FieldTurf™ synthetic surface. In addition to the new football surface, track & field athletes received new long jump, triple jump, pole vault and javelin runways thanks to the project.
•• Prentice Gudgen Track was resurfaced in 2004 at a cost of $200,000.
•• New lighting was installed at Al Ortolani Field prior to the start of the 2003 baseball season.
•• Carnie Smith Stadium underwent a major renovation project in 2000. All told, the $5.8 million facelift increased seating capacity, added 16 corporate luxury boxes and brought the facility into ADA compliance.
•• PSU completed a second $2.5 million renovation to the west side of Carnie Smith Stadium in the Spring of 2006. The project added eight corporate luxury boxes and futher ADA compliance.
•• PSU's indoor track facility received a $250,000 new track surface during the summer of 2005.
•• PSU's softball program opened play at its new on-campus site in the Gene Bicknell Sports Complex in '99.
•• More than $60,000 worth of new equipment was added to the PSU Fitness Center in the Weede Physical Education Building.
•• A quarter million dollars worth of enhancements were made to PSU's men's and women's locker rooms and athletic training facilities within the Garfield Weede P.E. Building.
Broyles: PSU Coaching Chronology
In his first season as a college head football coach, Broyles led PSU to an unblemished regular season (10-0), an MIAA title, a berth in the semifinals of the NCAA Division II playoffs and a 12-1 overall mark.
In 1991, he was selected the Division II National
Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association after leading
Pitt State to a 13-1-1 overall record and the school's first NCAA Division
II National Championship with a 23-6 victory over Jacksonville State,
Ala.
After a 2-1-1 start, Broyles guided PSU to 11 straight wins to claim the title.
Broyles then led the Gorillas to an unblemished
regular season (11-0) and the wire-to-wire No. 1 ranking in '92.
PSU won its first three playoff games to reach the National Championship for a second straight year.
Jacksonville State needed a defensive stop in
the final minute to preserve a 17-13 victory, snapping PSU's school record
25-game winning streak and bid for back-to-back titles.
In 1993, the Gorillas got off to an 0-2 start,
but again Broyles showed his leadership qualities in directing the team
to eight straight victories to close the '93 regular season. PSU earned
its fourth straight berth into the national playoff field, but the Gorillas
dropped a hard-fought 17-14 decision at North Dakota in the first round
of the post-season.
In 1994, PSU won all 10 of its regular season
contests to claim the program's fifth MIAA title in six years. The Gorillas
were ranked third in the final NCAA Division II poll, and Broyles was
named the MIAA Coach of the Year for the third time in his tenure ('90,
'92).
PSU suffered a disappointing 18-12 triple overtime
loss at home to North Dakota State in the "Mud Bowl, " a game
played in a torrential downpour. That loss snapped PSU's 24-game home
winning streak.
In 1995, Broyles led the Gorillas to a 12-1-1
record and the program's third trip to the National Championship game
in five years. The Gorillas also set an NCAA Division II record by qualifying
to compete in the 16-team playoff field for the seventh consecutive season.
In 1996, Broyles directed the Gorillas to an 8-2 regular season record and a share of their seventh MIAA title in eight seasons in the conference. PSU finished the regular season ranked seventh in the final poll.
The Gorillas extended their NCAA-II record for consecutive seasons in the playoffs to eight, but PSU was upset, 24-21, by eventual national champion Northern Colorado in the first round.
In 1997, Broyles guided PSU to a 9-1 regular season, including a 9-8 victory against NCAA I-AA member Southwest Missouri. The Gorillas also earned a record ninth straight trip to the NCAA-II playoffs. The team battled a season-long assortment of injuries to its starters and PSU succumbed, 24-16, to eventual national champion Northern Colorado in the first round of the NCAA-II playoffs.
In 1998, the Gorillas finished 7-3 and narrowly
missed the Division II playoffs for the first time in Broyles' tenure.
A pair of MIAA road losses in the waning seconds -- to eventual national
champion Northwest Missouri (23-18) and in a deluge to Missouri Western
(13-7) -- ended the Gorillas' NCAA Division II record string of nine consecutive
years in the national playoffs.
In 1999, Pitt State returned to the NCAA-II playoffs
during a 10-2 campaign. PSU finished the regular season with a 10-1 record.
Along the way, Broyles became the first collegiate coach in the 20th century
to win his 100th game in less than 10 full seasons. He did so with a 27-8
victory over Washburn on Oct. 23 at Topeka. The next week, PSU's 62-0
win over Missouri-Rolla made Broyles the winningest all-time coach in
MIAA history with his 101st victory. PSU qualified for the NCAA-II playoffs,
but the Gorillas were edged out, 34-31, by Northern Colorado at Greeley,
Colo., in the first round to end their season.
In 2000, PSU bounced back from a 1-2 start to win its final eight regular season games and qualify for the NCAA-II playoffs. The Gorillas lost their playoff game, 14-3, at Nebraska-Omaha to culminate a 9-3 season.
In 2001, Broyles led the Gorillas back to the top of the MIAA, as PSU captured the conference crown with a 38-13 regionally-televised win against Central Missouri on Nov. 8. The victory over the Mules punctuated a 10-1 regular season and propeled the Gorillas into the national playoffs, where PSU reached the national quarterfinals before falling to eventual national champion North Dakota to end the season with an 11-2 overall record.
Broyles became PSU's all-time winningest head
football coach on Sept. 29, 2001, when the Gorillas defeated Missouri
Southern, 35-13, at Joplin.
In 2002, the Gorillas posted an 8-3 record and
missed the NCAA-II playoffs for just the second time in Broyles' tenure.
In 2003, Pitt State posted a 9-2 regular season
record, capturing a share of the 2003 MIAA Championship -- Broyles' eighth
league crown.
In 2004, the Gorillas enjoyed a record-breaking 2004 season, rolling to an 11-0 regular season record and the MIAA title and advancing all the way to the National Championship Game, where Pitt State fell, 36-31, to Valdosta State University.
The Pitt State offense set all-time NCAA all division records for points
(837) total yards (8976) and rushing yards (5320) en route to the Gorillas'
14-1 season.
Broyles was named the Schutt Sports Division II National Coach of the Year. Additionally, he was named a 2004 Distinguished Kansan by the Topeka Capital-Journal.
In 2005, Pitt State posted an 8-3 regular season
record and earned a berth in the NCAA-II playoffs. The Gorillas upset
a pair of high seeds -- Neb.-Kearney (49-20) and West Texas A&M (41-3)
-- to reach the national quarterfinals before falling, 21-10, to eventual
national runner-up Northwest Missouri to culminate a 10-4 season.
Last year, Pitt State posted a 9-2 regular season record, but the Gorillas narrowly missed qualifying for the NCAA-II playoffs. The Gorillas were extended an invitation to the Mineral Water Bowl, the only NCAA sanctioned DII bowl game, and Pitt State claimed a 35-27 win over Northern Sun champion Bemidji State at Excelsior Springs, Mo., on Dec. 2 to give Broyles his 10th double-digit win season.
Broyles: Coaching/Playing Background
Broyles became head football coach at Pittsburg
State in December of 1989 after serving as the Gorillas' assistant head
coach and defensive coordinator the previous two years under current Texas
A&M head coach Dennis Francione.
As PSU's defensive coordinator from 1988-91, Broyles
directed a Gorilla defense that consistently was ranked among the best
in the nation. He turned the duties of defensive coordinator over to Tim
Beck in 1992, but reassumed them in '94 when Beck became PSU's offensive
coordinator.
In '94, PSU led the conference in every major
defensive statistical category, and the Gorillas were ranked in the top
five nationally as well. PSU was second nationally in points allowed (9.5
ppg) and rushing defense (69.4 ypg), and fifth in both total defense (223.4
ypg) and passing efficiency (80.5 rating).
Broyles again relinquished the duties prior to
the '95 season, turning the defensive assignments over to Anton Stewart.
Broyles was an eight-man football stand-out at Mulberry (Kan.) High School before continuing his playing career at PSU. He played both offensive and defensive line for the Gorillas, earning four varsity letters.
As a senior in 1968, Broyles earned honorable
mention NAIA All-America honors at defensive tackle, and he was selected
PSU's most outstanding player.
Broyles then earned a free agent tryout with the
NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers in '69.
He completed his bachelor's degree in education
at PSU in the spring of 1970, while serving as a student coach under Tom
Lester.
Broyles then spent two years (1970-71) at Bishop Carroll High School in Wichita, where he taught and served as an assistant football coach.
He returned to PSU to pursue a master's degree
in education and spent the 1972 season as a graduate assistant under Lester.
Broyles then spent one season as head football coach at Stockton High School in Stockton, Mo., before becoming defensive coordinator at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He coached at UMR from 1974-82, before spending three years as an assistant coach at Miami High School in Miami, Okla. Broyles returned to UMR to serve as defensive coordinator during the 1986-87 seasons.
In 1980, Broyles' defense at UMR was one of the
best in the country, allowing just 34.6 yards per game on the ground,
tops among NCAA Division II schools. The 1980 UMR defense forced an incredible
7.2 turnovers per game.
Broyles helped coach a pair of MIAA championship squads while at UMR (1977,
'80).
The Broyles Family
Chuck is married to the former Helen Ellwood of Cameron, Mo. Helen is a real estate agent in Pittsburg.
The couple have three adult sons: Scott, Kyle and Mark.
Scott, and his wife Bryna, have three daughters, Ashley, 12, Nicole, 11, and Jenna, who turns six on Nov. 12.
Kyle was a defensive lineman for the Gorillas from 1997-99, before serving as a student assistant on the PSU staff from 2000-03. Mark was an offensive lineman for the Gorillas from 1998-2002.
The Broyles' reside in Pittsburg.
Biography
Full name: Charles Leroy Broyles
Birthdate: February 5, 1947
Birthplace: Bremerton, Wash.
Hometown: Mulberry, Kan.
Family: Married to the former Helen Ellwood. Three adult children: Scott, Kyle and Mark.