Fordham Head Football Coach Joe Moorhead Receives Contract Extension

Bronx, N.Y. (December 10, 2013) - Fordham University athletics director David Roach has announced that football head coach Joe Moorhead has signed a contract extension through the 2021 season. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
 
"We are thrilled that Coach Moorhead will be leading our football program through the 2021 season," said Roach. "What Coach Moorhead has accomplished in two short years has been truly remarkable.  He is a terrific football coach and a tremendous representative of Fordham University.  Our success this year is a direct result of how our student-athletes have responded to his leadership and vision.  He is an excellent role model and we are fortunate to have him at Fordham.  We all look forward to next season and future seasons with Joe Moorhead as our head coach."
 
Moorhead, an Eddie Robinson Award finalist as the NCAA FCS Coach of the Year for the past two seasons, just completed his second season at Fordham as the Rams went 12-2 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA FCS Championship for just the second time in school history.
 
This fall, Moorhead led the Rams to unprecedented success, winning the first ten games of the year for the first time in school history and being ranked as high as fifth in the NCAA FCS polls, Fordham's highest ever ranking on the FCS level. The Rams set a school record for most wins in a season in the modern era (since 1920) and accomplished a plethora of firsts, including the first win over an NCAA FBS team (Temple), the first win over a top-ten ranked NCAA FCS team on Jack Coffey Field (Villanova) and the school's first ever home NCAA FCS championship win on Jack Coffey Field (Sacred Heart). For his accomplishments, Moorhead was named the 2013 Patriot League Coach of the Year.
 
A former Fordham quarterback, Moorhead and revamped the Rams' offense, a unit that leads the NCAA FCS in pass completion percentage, is second on total first downs, third in passing offense, and seventh in total offense this fall.
 
In his first year at Rose Hill, Moorhead led the Rams to one of the top turnarounds in the NCAA FCS. Inheriting a team that had gone 1-10 in 2011, Moorhead guided Fordham to a 6-5 record in 2012, the second best turnaround in the NCAA FCS that fall. The six wins were the most for a first-year Fordham head football coach since Jim "Sleepy" Crowley also won six games in his first season at Fordham in 1933.
 
Moorhead led the Rams to back-to-back winning non-conference records, including a perfect 6-0 mark this year.  The six non-conference wins are the most in school history, surpassing the five by the 2003 squad.
 
"I would like to offer my most sincere appreciation to Father McShane, the Board of Trustees, Dave Roach and Jeff Gray for their continued support and unwavering commitment to Fordham Football," said Moorhead. "Our coaching staff will continue to focus our collective energy and effort toward creating success for our football student-athletes in the classroom, on the field and in the community. As a program, I am pleased with the progress we have made in these areas over the past two years and am very excited for the future."