Pat Collins (born August 20, 1941) is a former American football coach.
[2] Thomas Eddleman, an assistant on John David Crow's staff at Northeast Louisiana (now known as Louisiana–Monroe), lobbied to get Collins hired at the program, which was accepted.
In his tenure as a coach, his intensity attracted recruits such as quarterbacks Bubby Brister and Stan Humphries.
The 1987 team won the Division I-AA national championship with five straight playoff victories (three won by less than four points) and a dramatic comeback in the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game where they rallied from being down 42-28 in the fourth quarter with two touchdown passes from Humphries for the first (and so far) only football championship for the program, which also is the only Division I-AA/FCS championship won in the state of Louisiana.
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