List of Appalachian State Mountaineers head football coaches

This is a complete list of Appalachian State Mountaineers head football coaches. Fielding its first organized football team in 1928, the Appalachian State Mountaineers have had 23 coaches. Flucie Stewart and E. C. Duggins have each served twice as head coach of the Mountaineers. Jerry Moore is the only three-time winner of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Coach of the Year award.^[1] Moore also has the most Southern Conference Coach of the Year awards with seven.^[2] Scott Satterfield was named as Appalachian's 20th head coach on December 14, 2012.^[3] The current head coach of the Mountaineers is Dowell Loggains, who was hired in December 2024.^[4] As of the end of the 2025 season, Appalachian State has an all-time record of 674 wins, 368, losses, and 29 ties (.643 all-time winning percentage).^[5]

Key to symbols in coaches list
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

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records^{[A 5]}, postseason records, championships and selected awards^{[A 6]}
No.	Name	Season(s)	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	DCs	CCs	NCs	Awards
1	Graydon Eggers	1928	9	3	6	0	0.333	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	—
2	C. B. Johnston	1929–1932	42	26	9	7	0.702	5	1	0	0.833	—	—	—	—	1	0	—
3	Eugene Garbee	1933–1934	17	10	6	1	0.618	2	2	0	0.500	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
4	Kidd Brewer	1935–1938	38	30	5	3	0.829	23	4	2	0.828	0	1	0	—	1	0	—
5	Flucie Stewart	1939 1946	19	13	4	2	0.737	7	1	1	0.833	0	0	0	—	1	0	—
6	R. W. "Red" Watkins	1940–1941	19	10	9	0	0.526	4	5	0	0.444	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
7	Beattie Feathers^†	1942	8	5	2	1	0.688	2	2	0	0.500	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
8	Francis Hoover	1945	7	1	6	0	0.143	1	3	0	0.250	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
9	E. C. Duggins	1947–1950 1952–1955	85	57	25	3	0.688	40	13	2	0.745	2	5	0	—	3	0	—
10	Pres Mull	1951	9	6	3	0	0.667	3	3	0	0.500	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
11	Bob Broome	1956–1958	29	13	16	0	0.448	9	9	0	0.500	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
12	Bob Breitenstein	1959	10	6	4	0	0.600	5	1	0	0.833	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
13	Jim Duncan	1960–1964	48	31	15	2	0.667	20	6	2	0.750	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
14	Carl Messere	1965–1970	61	34	26	1	0.566	10	10	0	0.500	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
15	Jim Brakefield	1971–1979	99	47	48	4	0.495	19	20	2	0.488	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
16	Mike Working	1980–1982	33	13	18	2	0.424	8	11	2	0.429	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
17	Mack Brown^†	1983	11	6	5	0	0.545	4	3	0	0.571	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
18	Sparky Woods	1984–1988	59	38	19	2	0.661	25	9	1	0.729	2	2	0	—	2	0	Southern Conference Coach of the Year^[9] (1985, 1986, 1987)
19	Jerry Moore^†	1989–2012	302	215	87	0	0.712	146	40	0	0.785	22	15	0	—	10	3 – 2005 2006 2007	Eddie Robinson Award^[10](2006) AFCA Football Championship Subdivision Coach of the Year^[11] (2005, 2006, 2007) AFCA FCS Regional Coach of the Year^[12] (1994, 1995, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009) Southern Conference Coach of the Year^[9] (1991, 1994, 1995, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010) Southern Conference Hall of Fame (2014)
20	Scott Satterfield	2013–2018	75	51	24	—	0.680	38	10	—	0.792	3	0	—	1	3	0	Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year (2018)^[13]
Int.	Mark Ivey	2018	1	1	0	—	1.000	0	0	—	–	1	0	—	0	0	0	—
21	Eliah Drinkwitz	2019	13	12	1	—	0.923	8	1	—	0.889	0	0	—	1	1	0	—
22	Shawn Clark	2019–2024	64	40	24	—	0.625	25	15	—	0.625	3	1	—	2	0	0	—
23	Dowell Loggains	2025–present	13	5	8	—	0.385	2	6	—	0.250	0	1	—	0	0	0	—

v t e Appalachian State Mountaineers football
Venues	College Field (1928–1961) Kidd Brewer Stadium (1962–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Coastal Carolina Georgia Southern Marshall Western Carolina
Culture & lore	"Hi Hi Yikas" Marching Mountaineers Yosef Miracle on the Mountain 2007 Michigan game
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943–1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
National championship seasons in bold

v t e Head football coaches of the Sun Belt Conference
Eastern Division	Dowell Loggains (Appalachian State) Ryan Beard (Coastal Carolina) Clay Helton (Georgia Southern) Dell McGee (Georgia State) Billy Napier (James Madison) Tony Gibson (Marshall) Ricky Rahne (Old Dominion)
Western Division	Butch Jones (Arkansas State) Michael Desormeaux (Louisiana) Bryant Vincent (Louisiana–Monroe) Major Applewhite (South Alabama) Blake Anderson (Southern Miss) G. J. Kinne (Texas State) Gerad Parker (Troy)

List of Appalachian State Mountaineers head football coaches

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