BOWLING GREEN — Derek van der Merwe will be facing arguably his biggest decision yet in the coming days in what has seemed like a never-ending coaching carousel within Bowling Green State University athletics.
When the Falcons’ vice president for athletics strategy and athletic director hires the next leader of the school’s football program – a position vacated on Friday when former mentor Scot Loeffler accepted a position as the Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterbacks coach – it will be the ninth head coach van der Merwe has hired since starting at BGSU in October 2022.