Coaches

Chris Merritt

His career from Wikipedia, each job checked against the team-season pages (✓ = a second source agrees, ≠ = they disagree)

Played at Indiana 1988-1992

Source: Wikipedia, read 2026-10-28

Years	Team	Role	Title	Head coach
1993	Eastern Illinois	Other	assistant	not known
1996-1998	Hamburg Blue Devils (unknown)	DC	DC	not known
1999	Stuttgart Scorpions (unknown)	Head coach	Head coach	himself
2000	Thiel	Position	DB	not known
2001-2018	Christopher Columbus HS (FL) (HS)	Head coach	Head coach	himself
2019-	Bryant	Head coach	Head coach✓	himself

Confirmed coordinator seasons since 2005. FBS rankings

Season	Team	Job	EPA/play	Points/poss.	Success	Year before	Teams

Season	Head coach at	Record	AP before → after	Off EPA/play	Def EPA/play	SP+	Team year before	Teams
2019	Bryant (FCS)	4-8	- → -	-	-	-	55% wins	-
2021	Bryant (FCS)	7-4	- → -	44	57	-	-	128
2022	Bryant (FCS)	4-7	- → -	59	75	-	64% wins	130
2023	Bryant (FCS)	6-5	- → -	25	53	-	36% wins	128
2024	Bryant (FCS)	2-10	- → -	66	122	-	55% wins	129
2025	Bryant (FCS)	3-9	- → -	86	68	-	17% wins	129
2026	Bryant (FCS)	6-4	- → -	48	80	-	25% wins	128

Season	Head coach below FBS	Level	Record
2020	Bryant	FCS	2-2

None found (his assistant years may be outside the FBS seasons we hold).

Coaches who were on his staffs

No one on his staffs among the coaches we hold.