Mark Carney (American football)
American football coach
Mark A. Carney (born July 31, 1980) is an American college football coach and former quarterback who is the head football coach at Kent State University. Carney played college football at Fordham University from 1998 to 2001.
Carney was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended high school in Lakewood, Ohio, graduating from St. Edward High School. After graduation from high school in 1998, Carney enrolled at the Fordham University and played quarterback for the Rams, starting for two seasons. As a senior in 2001, he led Fordham to their first winning record at the Division II level.
Carney began his coaching career in 2002 as a student assistant coach at Fordham for his former head coach, Dave Clawson. After Clawson left for a jobs with Richmond where he worked with the quarterbacks and wide receivers. In 2008, Mike London took over as the head coach of the Spiders, and kept Carney on staff, where he helped lead the Spiders to the FCS national championship.
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