This list of North Carolina A&T Aggies head football coaches includes those coaches who have led the North Carolina A&T Aggies football team that represents North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in the sport of American football. The Aggies currently compete in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and CAA Football, the technically separate football league operated by the Aggies' primary home conference, the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA).
Nineteen men have served as the Aggies' head coach, including one who has served as interim head coach, since the Aggies began play in the fall of 1924. In February 2011, Rod Broadway was named the new head coach of the Aggies, and the following year, led the team in its first winning season in nine years. Since the inception of the program, six coaches have let the Aggies in postseason bowl games: Charles DeBerry, William Bell, Bert Piggott, Hornsby Howell, Mo Forte, Bill Hayes, George Small, & Rod Broadway. Eight Aggie coaches have led their teams to conference championships during their tenure, with Bill Hayes and Burt Piggott both winning the most at three each. Three Aggie coaches have won the Black college football national championship during their tenures; Hornsby Howell in 1968, and Bill Hayes in 1990 and 1999, and Rod Broadway in 2015.
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Coaches + List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards.Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season. No. Name Season(s)North Carolina A&T did not field teams from 1902–1905, 1907–1911, 1913, & 1917–1920 GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT CC NC Awards — UnknownAll athletic records prior to 1924 were lost. 1901–1922 — — — — — — — — — 1 1923–1930 — — — — 2 1931–1932 — — — — 3 1933–1936;1938–1939 — — — — 4 1937 — — — — 5 1940 — — — — 6 1941 — — — — 7 1942–1944 — 8 1945 — — — — 9 1946–1956 — — — In 1951, North Carolina A&T was awarded a national title outside of the Black college national championship. — 10 1957–1967 — — — — 11 1968–1976 — — — CIAA Coach of the year (1974,1975) 12 1977–1981 MEAC Coach of the year (1980) 13 1982–1987 MEAC Coach of the year (1986) 14 1988–2002 MEAC Coach of the year (1991, 1999) 15 2003–2005 — 16 Lee Fobbs was fired from his position as coach on October 21, 2008. As of that date his season record was 2-6. 2005–2008 — INT George Ragsdale was named interim coach on October 21, 2008; He finished the 2008 season with a 1–3 record. 2008 — 17 2009–2010 — 18 2011–2017 MEAC Coach of the year (2017) 19 2018–2022 20 2023–2024 21 2025–present
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