On Monday morning, the head coach of college football was fired.

In central Maryland, the Rob Ambrose era has come to an end.

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According to Chris Vannini of The Athletic, the head coach at Towson was let go after 13 seasons with the team,

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during which time he went 76-76 and nearly made it to the FCS championship game.

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In 2022, Ambrose guided the Tigers to a 6-5 record, which featured a run of five straight defeats before the team's last four victories.

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Ambrose's lifetime record with the school now stands at a symmetrical 76-76 in 152 games because to Towson's late-season run,

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which enabled him to record his sixth winning season in 13 years.Ambrose, a former Tigers quarterback and receiver, started his coaching career at Towson in the early 1990s

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as a wide receivers coach and student assistant.Later, he went on to work at UConn as the offensive coordinator before coming back to his alma mater in 2008 to take over

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as head coach.Tim, his father, was a very successful high school football coach who coached for 31 years, winning 249 games and 14 MVL championships.

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