CMU football without head coach for National Signing Day

Today is National Signing Day, and Central Michigan University's football team remains without a head coach.

CMU Athletics has offered no comment or provided any updates on the head football coach search. The program expects to sign 20 verbally committed high school seniors.

CMU is the only Division I football program without a permanent head coach, according to the NCAA online database.

A job posting on the NCAA about the vacant CMU coaching position asks that candidates have five years football coaching experience and the ability to motivate student athletes both athletically and academically. The job was posted Jan. 26.

Dan Enos, the Chippewas’ head football coach since 2010, resigned Jan. 22 to take a position as the Razorbacks’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

In his two-sentence resignation letter, Enos told Athletic Director Dave Heeke “it’s (sic) been an honor serving as the head coach over the past five years.”

Assistant Head Coach Kyle Nystrom was named the team’s interim head coach Jan. 24.

Heeke said on the day of Enos’ resignation that finding a new head coach before National Signing Day would be “appropriate.”

“We would weigh every piece of that decision process of what it takes to get the right coach here,” Heeke said. “We will weigh Signing Day with recruiting with finding the right coach.”

According to 247Sports.com, CMU’s class of 2015 is expected to be:

--Rayshawn Wilborn, athlete from Lansing

--Jake Johnson, quarterback from DeWitt

--Derek Smith, offensive lineman from Kenowa Hills

--Shahid Bellamy, defensive lineman from Oak Park

--Jamil Sabbagh, safety from Dearborn

--Romello Ross, running back from Detroit

--Michael Danna, defensive end from Warren

--Micheal Oliver, linebacker from Detroit

--Ja’Mar Antwine, defensive back from Pontiac

--Damon Terry, wide receiver from Lansing

--Alexx Zielinski, tight end from Brighton