Monmouth football coach Kevin Callahan discusses 2025 Hawks
Monmouth football is nationally ranked as they prepare for the Aug. 29 opener at Colgate.
WEST LONG BRANCH – It’s Monmouth’s outstanding quarterbacking lineage that has helped fuel the program’s rise in FCS football over the past 32 years.
So it’s only fitting that record-setting Derek Robertson is the one leading the Hawks into the most anticipated college football fall ever at the Jersey Shore, with their first Coastal Athletic Association championship seemingly within reach.
“We are in Year 4 in the CAA and hopefully Derek is the guy who can lead us to that championship,” said Monmouth head coach Kevin Callahan, whose team was picked to finish second in the preseason coach’s poll. “The fourth year has been the year for us in each conference we’ve been in. That’s when it all seems like it comes together, as you as you adapt and put the pieces together that you need to compete in that new league. So I am excited to see where we’re at.”
The foundation traces to Dan Sabella, the current Don Bosco head coach, who got the program off the ground with its first NEC championship in 1996. Kenji Bahar rewrote the passing record book and led the Hawks to their first Big South title in 2019.
It all begins with Friday night’s season-opening visit to Colgate (7 p.m.) , with Monmouth ranked No, 21/22 in the two major FCS top 25 polls.
How high can Hawks’ offense fly?
Robinson comes off a year like no other at Monmouth. In his first season after transferring from Maine, he threw for a program-record 3,937 yards in 12 games, with 31 touchdown passes and six interceptions, named the CAA Offensive Player of the Year. He finished sixth last season in balloting for the Walter Payton Award, which goes to the FCS’s top offensive player.
“He’s a…
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