The Weber State Wildcats hired Eric Kjar as the football team’s next head coach. Kjar has 17 years of head coaching experience at the high school level, with an overall record of 181-39.
Kjar played collegiately at Wayne State (Nebraska) and graduated in 2004. He started coaching later that year as an assistant at Jordan High School in Sandy, Utah. In 2009, he became the head coach at Jordan and went 69-29 overall in eight seasons. Kjar led Jordan to the 2012 Utah State Championship.
In 2017, he took over the head coaching role at Corner Canyon High School in Draper, Utah, and led them to unprecedented success. Corner Canyon won six state titles in Kjar’s nine seasons, while going 112-10 overall, which included a Utah state record 48-game winning streak. Kjar also coached future NFL quarterbacks Zach Wilson (2017) and Jaxson Dart (2020) while at Corner Canyon.
Kjar will take the reins from Mickey Mental, who went 13-20 overall and 8-14 in Big Sky games in three seasons. Kjar will be expected to return the Wildcats to the success they had under Jay Hill, who went 68-39 overall, won four Big Sky titles, and reached the FCS playoffs six times in nine seasons. The Eric Kjar era will get started on Saturday, August 29, at Northern Colorado. The first home game will be on Saturday, September 19, against Northwestern State.
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