SAC Decades

[canadarican]

Did a little side project. This measures each SAC team by decades (70's, 80's, 90's, etc) based on win percentage, conference championships and playoff performance. Here are the top 10 in the history of the SAC.

1	1980-1989	Carson-Newman	51	19	0	0.729		359	359.73
2	1990-1999	Carson-Newman	67	4	0	0.944		155	155.94
3	1980-1989	Elon	45	25	0	0.643		128	128.64
4	2010-2019	Lenoir-Rhyne	53	18	0	0.746		57	57.75
5	1975-1979	Elon	25	8	1	0.750		49	49.75
6	2000-2009	Carson-Newman	55	14	0	0.797		39	39.80
7	1990-1999	Gardner-Webb	33	38	0	0.465		32	32.46
8	2000-2009	Catawba	45	24	0	0.652		31	31.65
9	1975-1979	Presbyterian	23	9	2	0.706		17	17.71
10	2010-2019	Carson-Newman	45	26	0	0.634		14	14.63

[Eagle74]

Coach Ken Sparks served as the head football coach at Carson–Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee from 1980 until his retirement at the end of the 2016 season.

After 37 years as head coach at Carson-Newman, he was the fifth winningest coach in college football history with a record of 338-99-2.

[Bearhof]

Very impressive numbers for a very long period with only a few losing seasons for CNU. Your college had the right chemistry for along time.

[canadarican]

Coach Ken Sparks served as the head football coach at Carson–Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee from 1980 until his retirement at the end of the 2016 season.

After 37 years as head coach at Carson-Newman, he was the fifth winningest coach in college football history with a record of 338-99-2.

Yeah most d2 folks know that. He was pretty good at that coaching football thing!

[canadarican]

Very impressive numbers for a very long period with only a few losing seasons for CNU. Your college had the right chemistry for along time.

I didn't realize until I looked it up that Elon won back to back NAIA titles in 1980 and 1981. Man the SAC dominated NAIA in the 80s

[Eagle74]

Yep most people who follow D2 (though the number gets smaller each year) remembers the glory days of the past when CN was feared powerhouse program.

Today's yet another reminder that CN's football these days no longer resembles the highly respected, feared , and very successful program of the past.

However, there's still hope that things will change in the.near future.

[LRfan23]

Every dynasty has fallen in human history Eagle 74, some dynasties just last longer than others

[canadarican]

Every dynasty has fallen in human history Eagle 74, some dynasties just last longer than others

Truth. I thought Brady would play forever and New England would win 10-12 more super bowls!

[Hailscarlet&gray]

I didn't realize until I looked it up that Elon won back to back NAIA titles in 1980 and 1981. Man the SAC dominated NAIA in the 80s

Newberry hired the Offensive Coordinator (Clayton Johnson) from Elon in 1982 to be the head coach at Newberry. I played for this man while at Newberry. Great coach and a great man, however, we had an administration at the time that was not willing to provide the resources needed for him to be successful. He ended up leaving Newberry after a semi-successful 7 year period.