Wheeling Cardinals football
 | An editor has performed a search and found that sufficient sources exist to establish the subject's notability. (February 2024) |
| Wheeling Cardinals football | |
|---|---|
| First season | 2019 |
| Athletic director | Carrie Hanna |
| Head coach | Zac Bruney 5th season, 20–27 (.426) |
| Stadium | Bishop Schmitt Field (capacity: 3,000) |
| Year built | 2014 |
| Location | Wheeling, West Virginia |
| NCAA division | Division II |
| Conference | MEC |
| All-time record | 20–27 (.426) |
| Colors | Cardinal and black[1] |
| Mascot | Cardinal |
| Website | wucardinals.com |
The Wheeling Cardinals football team represents Wheeling University in college football at the NCAA Division II level. The Cardinals are members of the Mountain East Conference (MEC), fielding its team in the MEC since 2019. The Cardinals play their home games at Bishop Schmitt Field in Wheeling, West Virginia.[2]
Their head coach is Zac Bruney, who took over the position for the team's inaugural 2019 season.[3]
Conference affiliations
[edit]- Mountain East Conference (2019–present)
List of head coaches
[edit]Key
[edit]| General | Overall | Conference | Postseason[A 1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Order of coaches[A 2] | GC | Games coached | CW | Conference wins | PW | Postseason wins |
| DC | Division championships | OW | Overall wins | CL | Conference losses | PL | Postseason losses |
| CC | Conference championships | OL | Overall losses | CT | Conference ties | PT | Postseason ties |
| NC | National championships | OT | Overall ties[A 3] | C% | Conference winning percentage | ||
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage[A 4] | ||||
Coaches
[edit]| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | O% | CW | CL | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zac Bruney[7] | 2019–present | 47 | 20 | 27 | 0.426 | 18 | 25 | 0.419 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Year-by-year results
[edit]| National champions | Conference champions | Bowl game berth | Playoff berth |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Record | Postseason | Final ranking | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Conference | |||||||||||||
| Win | Loss | Finish | Win | Loss | ||||||||||
| Wheeling Cardinals | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 2018 | Zac Bruney | Club | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
| 2019 | 2019 | NCAA | Division II | MEC | 1 | 10 | T–9th | 1 | 9 | — | — | |||
| 2020–21 | 2019 | 2 | 2 | T–3rd (North) | 2 | 2 | — | — | ||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 5 | 6 | T–6th | 5 | 5 | — | — | ||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | 7 | 4 | T–4th | 6 | 4 | — | — | ||||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 5 | 5 | T–7th | 4 | 5 | — | — | ||||||
| 2024 | 2024 | — | — | |||||||||||
Notes
[edit]- ^ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[4]
- ^ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
- ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[5]
- ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "WU Cardinals". Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ "Bishop Schmitt Field". Wheeling University Athletics. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
- ^ Popovich, Mike. "Bruney returns home to tackle biggest challenge". Canton Repository. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
- ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
- ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ^ Wharton, Jim; Farrar, Aaron (July 17, 2017). "Bruney named Wheeling Jesuit's first football coach". wtap.com. Retrieved February 10, 2024.