SUNY Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame
Dan MacNeill is the most successful head football coach in school history in his 23-year tenure at Cortland and was a four-year player for the Red Dragons in the late 1970s.
* The Walton, N.Y., native graduated from Cortland in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and earned a master’s degree in educational administration from Villanova University in 1994
* A four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at linebacker and defensive tackle at Cortland from 1975-78 and a team tri-captain during his senior year
* Cortland’s head football coach for 23 seasons from 1997-2019, posting a 155-85 (.646) record, with eight or more wins 10 times, to set school records for victories and winning percentage (minimum three years coached)
* His Red Dragon teams earned 17 postseason berths, including six NCAA Division III tournament showings, three ECAC bowl wins and a New York Bowl victory
* 2008 Liberty Mutual National Coach of the Year finalist as Cortland finished 11-2, advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals to tie for fifth nationally, and was recognized as the East’s top team with the Lambert Trophy and ECAC Team of the Year awards
* 2015 HERO Sports Division III National Coach of the Year, D3football.com East Region Coach of the Year, and the head of the Empire 8 Coaching Staff of the Year as Empire 8 co-champions finished 9-3 and advanced to the NCAA second round
* Two-time New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Coach of the Year in 2008 and 2012
* His teams tied for ninth nationally four times - NCAA second round in 2010, 2012 and 2015 and NCAA first round in a 16-team field in 1997 – and won at least a share of eight conference titles – NJAC in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012, and Empire 8 in 2015 and 2019
* Posted a 13-10 record versus Ithaca College in the annual Cortaca Jug rivalry game
* Coached 30 All-Americans, 94 All-East and 77 All-ECAC players, and his players earned 50 All-Empire 8 and 204 All-NJAC honors during his Cortland tenure
* Assistant coach at Division I-AA Villanova University for 13 years from 1984-96, including defensive coordinator for nine seasons
* Assistant coach at Port Byron (N.Y.) Central High School from 1980-82 and a graduate assistant at Ithaca in 1982 and 1983
* Spearheaded Cortland Football’s “Get in the Game” national bone marrow registry program, which was responsible for adding more than 2,100 potential donors to the national registry and resulted in seven transplants
* Founding member and involved for more than 20 years with the CNY National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame
