Bill Elias Jr.

Bill Elias, Jr.
Current position
Title	Assistant head coach
Team	Miami (OH)
Conference	MAC
Biographical details
Alma mater	UMass
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1980	Delaware (RB)
1981–1986	Eastern Michigan (GA/LB)
1987	Butler County (OC/OL)
1991–1993	Vanderbilt (OLB/DE)
1994–1997	LSU (RC)
1999–2006	Gannon
2009–present	Miami (OH) (AHC/LB)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2006–2008	Gannon
Head coaching record
Overall	31–51
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
	IFCA Coach of the Year (2003)

William T. Elias, Jr. is an American football coach. He is currently the assistant head coach, linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, a position he has held since the 2009 season. From 1999 to 2006, he was the head football coach at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he compiled a 31–51.^[1]

Elias served as the athletic director at Gannon for three years before taking his current position at Miami. A 1977 graduate of University of Massachusetts Amherst, he is the son of former Virginia and Navy head coach Bill Elias.^[2]

Head coaching record[edit]


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Gannon Golden Knights (NCAA Division II independent) (1999–2003)
1999	Gannon	1–9
2000	Gannon	3–7
2001	Gannon	5–4
2002	Gannon	5–5
2003	Gannon	9–1
Gannon Golden Knights (Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (2004–2006)
2004	Gannon	4–7	3–7	T–10th
2005	Gannon	3–8	3–7	T–9th
2006	Gannon	1–10	1–9	T–12th
Gannon:		31–51	7–23
Total:		31–51

References[edit]

^ "Miami RedHawks Profile". miamiredhawks.com. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ "A.D. Bill Elias Resigns to Return to Coaching". Gannon University. January 1, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2018.

External links[edit]

Miami (OH) profile

[1] "Miami RedHawks Profile". miamiredhawks.com. Retrieved January 1, 2018.

[2] "A.D. Bill Elias Resigns to Return to Coaching". Gannon University. January 1, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2018.

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