Twitter: @Martin_Miami_HC
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full Name: Charles Martin
Alma Mater: Millikin University '90
Wife: Dulcie
Children: Max and Emma
PLAYING EXPERIENCE:
1986-90: Millikin University, Safety/Placekicker
COACHING EXPERIENCE:
1992-93: Mankato State (Minn.), Graduate Assistant
1994-95: Wittenberg (Ohio), Linebackers
1996-97: Millikin (Ill.), Defensive Coordinator/DBs
1998-99: Eastern Michigan, Linebackers
2000-02: Grand Valley State, DBs/Outside Linebackers
2003: Grand Valley State, Defensive Coordinator/DBs
2004-09: Grand Valley State, Head Coach
2010: Notre Dame, Defensive Backs/Recruiting
2011: Notre Dame, Safeties/Recruiting
2012-13: Notre Dame, Offensive Coordinator/QBs
2014-PR: Miami University, Head Coach
BOWL/PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE:
1995: Wittenberg (Ohio), Division III First Round
2001: Grand Valley State, Division II National Finalist
2002: Grand Valley State, Division II National Champions
2003: Grand Valley State, Division II National Champions
2004: Grand Valley State, Division II Regional
2005: Grand Valley State, Division II National Champions
2006: Grand Valley State, Division II National Champions
2007: Grand Valley State, Division II Semifinal
2008: Grand Valley State, Division II Regional
2009: Grand Valley State, Division II National Finalist
2010: Notre Dame, Sun Bowl
2011: Notre Dame, Champs Sports Bowl
2012: Notre Dame, BCS National Championship Game
2016: Miami, St. Petersburg Bowl
2020: Miami, LendingTree Bowl
2021: Miami, Frisco Football Classic
2022: Miami, Bahamas Bowl
2023: Miami, Cure Bowl
2024: Miami, Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl
CAREER COACHING RECORD:
| Year |
Record |
Pct. |
Conf. |
Pct. |
Finish |
| 2004 |
10-3 |
.769 |
8-2 |
.800 |
NCAA II QF |
| 2005 |
13-0 |
1.000 |
9-0 |
1.000 |
NCAA Champs |
| 2006 |
15-0 |
1.000 |
10-0 |
1.000 |
NCAA Champs |
| 2007 |
12-1 |
.923 |
9-0 |
1.000 |
NCAA Semis |
| 2008 |
11-1 |
.917 |
10-0 |
1.000 |
NCAA QF |
| 2009 |
13-2 |
.867 |
9-1 |
.900 |
NCAA Finals |
| 2014 |
2-10 |
.167 |
2-6 |
.250 |
6th (East) |
| 2015 |
3-9 |
.250 |
2-6 |
.250 |
T-5th (East) |
| 2016 |
6-7 |
.462 |
6-2 |
.750 |
T-1st (East) |
| 2017 |
5-7 |
.417 |
4-4 |
.500 |
T-3rd (East) |
| 2018 |
6-6 |
.600 |
6-2 |
.750 |
T-2nd (East) |
| 2019 |
8-6 |
.571 |
6-2 |
.750 |
MAC Champs |
| 2020 |
2-1 |
.667 |
2-1 |
.667 |
T-3rd (East) |
| 2021 |
7-6 |
.538 |
5-3 |
.625 |
2nd (East) |
| 2022 |
6-7 |
.462 |
4-4 |
.500 |
T-4th (East) |
| 2023 |
11-3 |
.786 |
7-1 |
.875 |
MAC Champs |
| 2024 |
9-5 |
.643 |
7-1 |
.875 |
1st |
| Career |
139-74 |
.653 |
106-36 |
.747 |
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In his career, Chuck Martin has more than 30 years in college coaching experience, including 17 years as a head coach. He has twice been named the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) National Coach of the Year, earning the honor in 2005 and 2006, was a finalist for the Eddie Robinson National Coach of the Year in 2023 and has coached in seven national championship games. In addition to his head coaching experience, Martin has served as a coordinator on both sides of the ball. Of those seven national championship game appearances, he has been a part of four national championship wins, with two titles under his direction as head coach/offensive coordinator and one as a defensive coordinator.
After taking over a team that had just gone 0-12 in 2013, Miami was 4-14 in Martin's first 18 conference games. From there, the rest is history. Martin and the RedHawks are 49-19 in the MAC, best in the conference since 2016. The RedHawks won the 2019 and 2023 MAC Championship and have been bowl eligible eight of the past nine seasons. Martin has coached (132) and won (65) more games than anyone in Miami history.
This was done year after year with strong recruiting classes. Miami’s classes have been some of the best the school has ever seen. Over the last nine years, Miami’s recruiting classes have ranked first or second seven different times. Those recruiting efforts have shown up at the highest level as well. Dating back to 2019, Miami has had a player selected in the NFL Draft three of the past five years.
Miami’s turnaround began back in 2016 as Martin orchestrated something that had never been done in college football. Miami rattled off six straight wins to become the first team in college football history to begin a season 0-6 and finish 6-6. The six-game win streak also moved Miami to 6-2 in the MAC, finishing in a tie for first in the East and helped the RedHawks advance to the St. Petersburg Bowl versus Mississippi State, Miami’s first bowl appearance since 2010.
Under Martin, the RedHawks have won 20 contests over the past two years, the second-best two-year output in program history, which includes an 11-win season in 2023. Not only did Miami capture its second MAC Championship that season, the RedHawks also defeated Cincinnati for the first time since 2005. This past year the RedHawks captured nine wins and went 8-1 to close the season, including a win in the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl.
Prior to joining Miami, Martin spent four seasons at Notre Dame, serving as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach (2012-13) and defensive backs/recruiting coordinator (2010-11). In 2012, he orchestrated an offense that played in the BCS National Championship game versus Alabama. In 2011, he was named one of the top 25 recruiters in the nation by ESPN.com and was named to Rivals.com’s Second-Team Assistant Coach Dream Team.
In Martin’s two years calling plays, Notre Dame combined to go 20-5 overall and was one of the most balanced offenses in the country, averaging 26.4 points, 170.0 rushing and 235.6 passing per game.
Prior to arriving in South Bend, Martin was head coach and offensive coordinator for Grand Valley State University from 2004-2009 and compiled a 74-7 (.914) record, including an impressive 16-4 record in the NCAA Division II Playoffs. He and the Lakers won back-to-back national championships in 2005 and 2006 and finished runner-up in 2009. He directed Grand Valley State to 48 consecutive regular-season victories and 45 straight wins in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). He also guided the Lakers to a Division II record 40-game winning streak from 2005-07. Martin produced seven Associated Press First-Team All-America players as head coach.
At GVSU, Martin’s offenses averaged 35.1 points, 208 rushing and 427 total yards per game. The Lakers ranked among the top-25 nationally in total offense in five of six seasons and ranked in the top-27 in scoring offense in all but one season. In that time, his offense scored at least 30 points in 56 of 81 games and scored at least 40 points in 34 contests.
Many of those offenses were led by quarterbacks who were developed under Martin. In six years, GVSU produced four Harlon Hill finalists, given annually to the NCAA Division II Player of the Year (Cullen Finnerty in 2006 and Brad Iciek from 2007-09). In that span, Laker quarterbacks threw 184 touchdown passes and just 41 interceptions.
His offenses were not just about the quarterback. In all six seasons, he produced a 1,000-yard rusher. In four of those seasons, a running back finished as a top-10 rusher in Grand Valley State history.
Before becoming head coach, Martin served as the defensive coordinator for the Lakers in 2003, helping GVSU win a national championship. Martin’s defense allowed just nine total points in the final three games of the playoff run and among the ranked top-10 nationally in scoring, rushing and total defense that season.
Martin served as the defensive backs and outside linebackers coach at GVSU from 2000-02. Prior to arriving in Allendale, Mich., Martin spent time at Eastern Michigan (1998-1999, linebackers), Millikin University (1996-97, defensive coordinator/defensive backs), Wittenberg University (1994-95, linebackers) and Mankato State University (1992-93, graduate assistant/linebackers).
While attending Millikin (1986-90), Martin was an All-American safety and was selected as a GTE Academic All-American. He doubled as an All-American place kicker, received Academic All-District honors for the Millikin baseball team and was inducted into the Millikin Hall of Fame in 2008.
He graduated in 1990 with a degree in accounting and earned his master’s degree in physical education from Mankato State University in 1993.
Martin and his wife Dulcie have two children, Max and Emma.
