Bob Goin

Bob Goin

Biographical details
Born	(1936-10-03)October 3, 1936 Gary, Indiana, U.S.
Died	October 12, 2019(2019-10-12) (aged 83) Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, U.S.
Playing career
Football
c. 1958	Bethany (WV)
Basketball
c. 1958	Bethany (WV)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1960–1962	Bethany (WV) (assistant)
1963–1972	Bethany (WV)
Baseball
?	Bethany (WV)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1970–1976	Bethany (WV)
1976–1979	West Virginia (assistant AD)
1979–1981	California (PA)
1981–1989	Florida State (associate AD)
1990–1994	Florida State
1997–2005	Cincinnati
Head coaching record
Overall	45–32–2 (football)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 2 PAC (1965–1966)

Robert Goin (October 3, 1936 – October 12, 2019) was an American football and baseball coach and college athletic administrator. He was the head football coach at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia from 1963 to 1972, compiling a record of 45–32–2. He was also the college's head baseball coach and athletic director. Goin was the athletic director at California University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1981, Florida State University from 1990 to 1994 and the University of Cincinnati from 1997 to 2005

Early life and playing career

Goin was a 1959 graduate of Bethany College, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He married his high-school sweetheart, Nancy, in 1957.

Coaching career

Goin returned to Bethany in 1960 as an assistant football coach.

Administrative career

Goin was athletic director and chair of the physical education department at Bethany from 1970 to 1976, and as a tenured professor. From 1976 to 1979, he was assistant athletics director at West Virginia University, and spent two years, from 1979 to 1981, as athletic director at California University of Pennsylvania.

For five years, from 1990 to 1994, Goin was the athletic director at Florida State, guiding the Seminoles into membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). During his tenure, he also oversaw an $80 million expansion of all of the athletic facilities. Within this project, he helped to start the Doak Campbell Stadium expansion that boosted seating by nearly 20,000 and added classrooms to the buildings wrapped around the stadium. He later resigned his position after being accused by a weekly newspaper in Tallahassee of using a contractor involved in the school's stadium expansion to install a new roof over his home. An investigation by the Florida Times-Union newspaper revealed that hen paid more than the market price for the roof, and he was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Florida Ethics Commission.

During his tenure at Cincinnati, which began in 1995, the university joined the Big East Conference and developed the Richard E. Lindner Varsity Village, a comprehensive $80.3 million athletic facilities enhancement. Cincinnati's sports teams posted a combined winning percentage of nearly .600 in his eight years, claiming 29 conference titles, making 49 post-season appearances and producing 39 All-Americans under his leadership. Cincinnati's football team made its first post-season bowl appearance in 47 years. Goin placed a strong focus on developing UC student athletes' academic abilities during his tenure. He improved the academic support services they received and started programs that allowed those who exhausted their athletic eligibility to return to university in order to earn their degree. Nationally, the most notable event during his Cincinnati tenure was the dismissal of the basketball coach Bob Huggins. Goin retired from the director role at Cincinnati in 2005 to move closer to his four children and six grandchildren who resided in the Florida. The Football Team Meeting Room in the Lindner Center is named after Goin.

Goin was a member of the NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet and the NCAA Football Bowl Certification Subcommittee.

Honors and death

Goin was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013, the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2015 and the University of Cincinnati athletics Hall of Fame in 2005. He was also a member of the Penn Hills High School and Bethany College Halls of Fame and was inducted as a member of the inaugural class of the Phi Kappa Tau Hall of Fame in 2006.

Goin died after a heart attack on October 12, 2019, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Bethany Bison (Presidents' Athletic Conference) (1963–1972)
1963	Bethany	2–5	2–5	T–6th
1964	Bethany	5–3	4–2	2nd
1965	Bethany	5–3	5–1	1st
1966	Bethany	6–0–1	5–0–1	1st
1967	Bethany	5–3	4–2	2nd
1968	Bethany	4–4	4–2	T–2nd
1969	Bethany	6–2	4–2	T–2nd
1970	Bethany	5–2	3–2	2nd
1971	Bethany	3–5–1	2–3	T–4th
1972	Bethany	4–5	3–4	T–5th
Bethany:		45–32–2	36–25–1
Total:		45–32–2
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth