Turner Gill, Liberty University's head football coach for the past seven seasons, announced Monday he is retiring from the profession, effective immediately.
A gifted option quarterback at Nebraska during the early 1980s, Gill was 47-35 at Liberty, a private school in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 2014, he led the program to its only Football Championship Subdivision playoff appearance. The Flames this season were 6-6 in their inaugural year of play in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
"It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing my retirement from coaching," the 56-year-old Gill said in a prepared statement. "In the summer of 2016, my wife Gayle was diagnosed with a heart condition.