He played seven seasons in Major League Soccer with the Columbus Crew and one in the USISL with the Richmond Kickers.
MLS had originally intended to begin play in the fall of 1995, but delayed a year when it experienced problems with stadiums, sponsorship and team ownership.
[1] When Yeagley retired from playing in 2002, he moved to the Crew's front office as an assistant general manager for a year.
The next year, Indiana brought Yeagley in as a full-time assistant and he had the good fortune to again see his team win the NCAA championship in penalties against the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In 2008, the University of Wisconsin–Madison hired Yeagley to replace Jeff Rohrman as head coach of the school's men's soccer team.
Yeagley earned his 100th career win as a head coach on October 3, 2017, when the #1 ranked Hoosiers defeated the Evansville Purple Aces 4–0.
He earned his 200th win 7 years and 15 days later, when the Hoosiers defeated the Michigan State Spartans 3-1 in Bloomington on October 18, 2024.