North Alabama has made a head coaching change

Chris Willis spent the previous twenty years on employees at North Alabama in varied capacities, serving to the group to playoff runs and convention titles as an assistant and coordinator earlier than rising to the top teaching seat in December of 2016.

In 2018, his second season as a head coach, Willis helped transition this system from a D-II member to the FCS ranks, and led them to a powerful 7-3 inaugural season as a Division I member.

At the moment, after a 1-7 begin to the season, North Alabama made the tough determination to half methods with Willis.

With the 2017 season marking his first season on the helm, Willis led the proud program to a 5-5 mark, adopted by the 7-3 season of their transition 12 months from D-II to FCS.

In years that adopted UNA went 4-7, 0-4 in the course of the COVID-impacted season, after which 3-8 final 12 months.

Willis signed a four-year contract extension again in March of 2021 that ran by the 2024 season.

Earlier than changing into the chief of the Lions, Willis orchestrated a number of the greatest defenses in Division II, together with a nationwide runner-up end in 2016 and a run to the quarterfinals in 2013.

In a cultured farewell message, Willis supplied the next message by way of social media. 

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