Longtime St. Thomas coach Glenn Caruso rallies his players before a game. The Tommies will be entering their second season at the Division 1 level with hopes of taking a big leap forward as a program.
Head coach Glenn Caruso on the sidelines during a football game vs St. John’s October 1, 2011 in O’Shaughnessy Stadium. The Tommies won 63-7.
St. Thomas will enter their second season in their Division 1 era
by MALIK MITCHELL
Let’s Play Football Contributor
Last season, The University of St. Thomas became permitted by the NCAA to make the jump from Division III to Division I. The Tommies became the first program to make this big of a jump for all of their sports.
Head coach Glenn Caruso stated, “It’s crazy. It’s uncharted, that’s really the unique thing. Every one of the challenges that we’ve met over the last 26 years of coaching college football, in the upper Midwest we’ve always had a point of reference that you can ask this person or speak to these people or call this friend who had gone through it. This is so entirely unique that it’s a bit of a pioneering expedition and in that lies a lot of the fun and the excitement.”
