The state\u2019s all-time winningest coach is stepping down.<\/p>\n
Bill Hurst is stepping down as head football coach at Centreville Academy after 49 years. Hurst went 447-159 overall and won 10 state championships all at Centreville. Hurst\u2019s 447 wins are the most all-time.<\/p>\n
Hurst is staying on staff as the defensive coordinator. Offensive coordinator and athletic director Brian Stutzman has been named the new head coach of the Tigers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been very blessed and God let me do what I wanted to do and was very blessed to have some good players. He placed me here,\u201d Hurst said. \u201cI\u2019m staying for a few more years as defensive coordinator because I told the kids I would stay and work with them. Brian played for me in the late 80\u2019s and early 90\u2019s and has been my right-hand man for a while, so we will do a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2025 Hurst guided the Tigers to a 12-1 season and claimed the MAIS Class 2A, Division I state championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun and blessed to be able to coach this long with great coaches and players in a great community and school. Blessed to have a lot of success at a small school,\u201d Hurst said. \u201cMy first year as head coach we went 10-1 and won state championship with 16 players, so from the start we\u2019ve worked really hard with what we had.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state\u2019s all-time winningest coach is stepping down. Bill Hurst is stepping down as head football coach at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,56340,56339],"class_list":{"0":"post-725576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-highschool","10":"tag-msgridiron"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116005208337742970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725576","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=725576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}