Tyson Helton didn’t think Western Kentucky’s 2019 football season would be one of rebuilding. He just didn’t believe in that.
“It’s hard to walk into a room of 95 men and say we’re going to try to rebuild,” he said after the Hilltoppers’ 23-20 win over Western Michigan in the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl.
That game capped off a turnaround 9-4 season – Helton’s first at the helm – in which the program tripled its win total from the year prior and matched its total number of combined victories from the 2017 and 2018 seasons under the previous coaching regime.