From the Las Vegas Sun: Chris Ault raised Nevada football. After 28 years as coach, he felt he had taken the Wolf Pack as far as he could.
Ault announced Friday he was stepping down, leaving as the winningest coach in school history, already a Hall of Famer, and having changed the way teams play offense nationwide.
Under Ault, the Wolf Pack went from Division II to I-AA to I-A, winning at every level with some of the most prolific and innovative offenses in the country.
The 66-year-old won 10 conference championships and took the Wolf Pack to the postseason 16 times, including 10 bowl games in 12 FBS seasons. He finished with a record of 233-109-1.
"It's with great humility and mixed emotions I've decided it's time for me to step down and move on," a tearful Ault said at a news conference. "Wolf Pack football firmly established a blueprint for success that can be sustained."
Perhaps his most famous contribution came late in his career, when he invented the Pistol offense in 2005, a scheme now employed by hundreds of teams at every level of football. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/dec/28/unr-football-coach-chris-ault-retiring/
Most people outside of Nevada probably never heard of Chris Ault, unless you were a true college football fanatic. To be honest, I never heard of him until I moved to Nevada from Wisconsin, but once I got to know who he is, I was truly impressed.
Ault will be truly missed, not only in Nevada but in all of college football. He went out on top of his game and left on his own terms. How many football coaches can say that?
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