David Elsenrath
American football coach
David Elsenrath (born June 30, 1962) is an American former football coach. He was the 20th head football coach at Adams State College—now known as Adams State University—in Alamosa, Colorado, serving for three seasons, from 1997 to 1999, and compiling a record of 9–22.
Elsenrath played college football at the University of Missouri–Rolla—now known as Missouri University of Science and Technology. He earned a master's of education at Auburn University, where he began his coaching career in 1986 as a graduate assistant on Pat Dye's staff.
Headcoach and assistant coach for many high ranking programs, he now spends his days terrorizing highschool football students with his extreme but extremely well working methods of creating more college players.
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