{"id":587846,"date":"2025-12-09T20:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/587846\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:39:30","slug":"lehigh-football-coach-kevin-cahill-signs-multi-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/587846\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh football coach Kevin Cahill signs multi-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh football\u2019s coach Kevin Cahill has signed a multi-year contract extension to stay with the Mountain Hawks, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/news\/2025\/12\/9\/lehigh-extends-contract-of-vandergrift-family-head-football-coach-kevin-cahill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a> from Murray H. Goodman \u201948 Dean of Athletics Jeremy Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>The timeframe on the contract extension is undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p>In his three seasons at Lehigh, Cahill has compiled a 23-14 record. He orchestrated a turnaround from his debut 2-9 season in 2023, leading Lehigh to two consecutive Patriot League titles.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, he led the Mountain Hawks to the second round of the FCS Playoffs after upsetting Richmond University <a href=\"https:\/\/thebrownandwhite.com\/2024\/11\/30\/lehigh-defeats-richmond-20-16-in-fcs-playoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20-16<\/a>. The victory was Lehigh\u2019s first postseason win since 2011 when the team defeated Towson University 40-38.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Cahill led Lehigh to an undefeated regular season and outright Patriot League title, hosting the <a href=\"https:\/\/thebrownandwhite.com\/2025\/12\/06\/no-5-lehigh-falls-to-no-12-villanova-14-7-in-fcs-second-round-matchup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first playoff game<\/a> at Goodman Stadium in 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>Cahill received the <a href=\"https:\/\/thebrownandwhite.com\/2025\/12\/04\/coach-kevin-cahill-receives-eddie-robinson-award-fcs-coach-of-the-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Eddie Robinson Award<\/a>, which is given to the best coach at the FCS level, beating out North Dakota State University\u2019s coach Tim Polasek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh football\u2019s coach Kevin Cahill has signed a multi-year contract extension to stay with the Mountain Hawks, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[88632,2009,7,88633,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-587846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-1-minute-read","9":"tag-brief","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-lehigh-football","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115691543895367436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}