Joseph H. Moglia Fordham Prep Class of 1967 Offensive Guard / Linebacker Fordham Prep Assistant Football Coach
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Joseph H. Moglia Fordham Prep Class of 1967 Offensive Guard / Linebacker Fordham Prep Assistant Football Coach Born in 1949, Joe Moglia was raised in Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish in the Inwood section of Manhattan. At Fordham Prep, Moglia played four years of baseball and football. He served as captain for both teams. Joe received All-New York City and All-Conference honors as a player. After high school, Moglia attended Fordham University and coached Fordham Prep football with school legend Bruce Bott. After college, Moglia coached college football for 16 years, winning two Ivy League Championships as defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College and setting national records as a defensive and special teams coach at Lafayette College. In 1983, Moglia left coaching for a career in finance, first at Merrill Lynch then as CEO of TD Ameritrade, which grew from $700MM to $10B in market capitalization during his leadership. Returning to college coaching in 2009 at the University of Nebraska where he coached for two seasons. Joe then became the head coach Omaha Nighthawks in the United Football League in 2011. In 2012, Moglia was named the head football coach at Coastal Carolina University, leading his team to repeat I-AA playoff success and a move to the FBS in the Sun Belt Conference. In his last 9 seasons of coaching college football, Joe has been part of 7 championship teams. In his first three seasons at Coastal, he led his team to three conference championships, three National Playoffs, was named Conference Coach of the Year in 2012 and 2014, three times named a finalist for National Coach of the Year, both National Runner Up and American Football Coaches Foundation Regional Coach of the Year in 2014, and Eddie Robinson national coach of the year 2015. Joe Moglia served on the Fordham Prep Board of Trustees from 1996-2002. He served as keynote speaker for the 2005 and 2008 Fordham Prep Wall Street Forum lunches and delivered both the school’s 2005 Commencement address and the 2015 inaugural Fordham Prep Football Hall of Fame address honoring Bruce Bott ’59 and Joe “Sammy” Ososki. .