Posted by Philip Poole on 2006-12-01

Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan will be introduced as Samford University's new head football coach at a 2 p.m. news conference on campus today. Sullivan most recently has been an assistant football coach at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. 

 
Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 5,791 students from 49 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.