When Western Kentucky head football coach Tyson Helton was hired late last year, he reminded WKU fans of better times.
From 2014 through 2017, the Hilltoppers won two Conference USA titles and went to four bowl games.
A graduate of Houston, where he played for his father, Helton and had coaching stops at Hawaii, UAB, Memphis and Cincinnati before being hired as offensive coordinator in 2015 by Jeff Brohm, now the coach at Purdue.
In Helton’s two seasons there, the Hilltoppers won a Conference USA title and 20 of 27 games. Quarterback Brandon Doughty set national passing records and the Tops also won two bowl games.