You need only to listen to Joe Moglia’s press conference from Sun Belt Conference Media Days in July to know Coastal Carolina has a unique football coach.
While the league’s other nine coaches were addressing football issues, Moglia’s 15 or so minutes were taken up with talk of NASA, ISIS, North Korea’s nuclear program, the U.S. military and the 2016 presidential election, with some football sprinkled in.
Coastal president David DeCenzo knew he was getting an atypical football coach when he hired Moglia in December 2011.
But it would have been hard to foresee the full impact Moglia has had on the university, its profile, its football program and its students through his approach to coaching, influence, connections and willingness to take on multiple roles.