Former WT football coach Don Carthel inducted into Hall of Champions

More than a decade after leaving West Texas A&M, former Buffs’ head football coach Don Carthel will be inducted into the school’s Hall of Champions.

WTAMU announced Carthel’s induction on Monday afternoon alongside seven other members who will make up the 2025 Hall of Champions class. The school called it a “long overdue honor” in a social media post.

Carthel came to WT after coaching stops at Floydada, Lubbock Christian, UTEP, Eastern New Mexico and even a stint with the Amarillo Dusters, among others. The former Buffs’ head coach is originally from Dimmitt, and played college football at Eastern New Mexico.

Carthel spent eight seasons at the helm in Canyon, compiling a 79-22 record and leading his team to six playoff appearances, including a run to the national semifinals in 2012. Carthel was named Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year four times and helped grow the popularity of the Buffs’ football program during his time at WT.

Cathel’s son, Colby Carthel, took over as the Buffs’ defensive coordinator in 2006, working alongside his father to bring the school one of its most successful stretches as a football program.

In 2013, though, West Texas A&M fired Don Carthel.

According to Michael McBroom, who was the school’s athletic director at the time, Carthel had broken NCAA Division II Bylaw 10.1, which says, “Individuals employed by (or associated with) a member institution to administer, conduct or coach intercollegiate athletics and all participating student-athletes shall act with honesty and sportsmanship at all times so that intercollegiate athletics as a whole, their institutions and they, as individuals, shall represent the honor and dignity of fair play and the generally recognized high standards associated with wholesome competitive sports.”

According to Carthel, he and two of his players went to a Texas…

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Publish date : 2025-04-01 17:29:00

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