Western Michigan football head coach Tim Lester was named to the American Football Coaches Association Board of Trustees in June.
Lester was nominated by his peers to be the Mid-American Conference representative after Lance Leipold accepted the head coaching job at Kansas, leaving his job as the head coach at Buffalo and the MAC representative seat empty.
“The first week or two of your life (after being hired as a head coach), like you don’t sleep, I mean there’s so much work to do,” Lester said. “When it was about three days into Lance Leipold’s reign at Kansas, I looked down at my phone and it was Lance.