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As Concordia head coach Terry Horan begins his seventh season all signs point to Horan’s tenure being one of the best in the storied history of the Concordia football program. At the end of the 2005 season Horan eclipsed a couple of career-win milestones that have never been achieved in Cobber coaching history. With Concordia’s victory over Coe College in the first round of the NCAA playoffs, Horan earned his 40th career win, becoming the first coach in Concordia football history to win 40 games in his first five seasons of play. Horan also guided Concordia to the postseason for the second consecutive season in 2005 – the first time any Cobber football team has ever achieved back-to-back playoff appearances. In his first six seasons of leading Concordia back to the top of the MIAC, Horan has been named MIAC Coach of the Year twice (2002 and 2004) and was named the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Region Coach of the Year in 2004. The 2007 season begins with another group of players that is over 140 strong. Not only has Horan added quantity since taking over in 2001, but he has added a stable of high-quality players as well. He has routinely recruited athletes who have been offered NCAA scholarship money from Division I and II programs and showed them the benefit of the Concordia tradition. The coming out party for Horan and the Cobbers on the national and conference scene came in 2004 when Concordia captured their first outright MIAC championship since the 1986 season with a perfect 8-0 mark. The team finished the year with an 11-1 overall record and was ranked in the top 25 in the nation for most of the season. All told, Concordia has spent 28 consecutive weeks in the top 25 of Division III. In his first six seasons, Horan has compiled a 35-14 conference record and a 44-20 overall mark. Horan succeeded Christopherson who retired after 32 years as Concordia's head coach. Before coming to Concordia Horan was the head football coach at Breckenridge High School for six years. A 1989 graduate of Concordia, Horan began his coaching career in 1991 as an assistant coach at Breckenridge. In the fall of 1993 he took over as head coach and guided the Cowboys to three state tournament appearances in the four years, from 1993-96, he coached. During that time Breckenridge reached the state title game in 1995 and was a semi-finalist in 1994 & '96. In 1997, he returned to Concordia to serve as wide receivers coach and athletic recruiting coordinator. After two years he proceeded to move back to Breckenridge to become the dean of students at the middle school and resume his head coaching duties at the high school. In his two stints as head coach at Breckenridge his teams amassed a 56-15 record and he was named Section Coach of the Year three times and Heart-O'-Lakes Coach of the Year three times. Horan was an All-American while playing at Concordia from 1985-88. He still holds the school record for most touchdowns in a single season as well as reception, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns for a career and he is also the second all-time scoring leader for the Cobbers. He was a three-time All-MIAC performer and garnered All-American status in his senior year. Horan was also an All-MIAC baseball player in 1989 and had a career batting average of over .350. Horan is only the eighth football coach in the school's 81 seasons of collegiate football. Before Horan, Christopherson had been the head coach since 1969 when he took over the position from Hall of Fame coach Jake Christiansen. During the 32 years under Christopherson's tutelage, the Cobbers won two national championships and captured the MIAC crown 11 times. Quotable Horan Cobber head coach Terry Horan on what he likes most about the profession of coaching: Horan on what makes Concordia so special: Cobber head coach Terry Horan on his favorite aspect of Concordia: On what he is most proud of about his first five years on the job: On the position of the program after his first five years: On his goals for the next five years: On whether or not he is starting to slow down after the first six seasons: On why he has been so successful at recruiting: On the 140-plus players coming into training camp:
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