2025 Interview with Urbana Head Coach Carleton Cotner

Carleton Cotner Urbana High School Head Football Coach College: Norwich University (Vermont) Could you share with the readers your coaching tree, from first job to current job? Started right out of college at Muncie South HS in Indiana. Spent the next 10 years coaching in college. Norwich University Plymouth State University United States Merchant Marine Academy Ohio Wesleyan University After that, HC at Fairbanks HS 2003-2006 HC at Ben Logan HS 2007-2013 Co/OC at Dublin Jerome HS 2014 DL at Marysville HS 2015 DL at Bellefontaine HS 2016 HC Urbana HS 2017 to present Who are some of the coaches that you have learned the most from? My time at Plymouth State University under Don Brown was crucial in my overall development as a coach. Understanding the importance of relationship building, motivation, and player development. Mike Hollway at OWU taught me how to develop a family atmosphere. At the HS level, the guy I learned a lot from and talk to quite a bit is Toby Smith. Coached wit...