BRONX, N.Y. – Recognized as an influential "Man of Fordham", Joe Moglia has been announced as an inductee into the Fordham Athletic Hall of Fame, Class of 2021, Fordham University athletics announced.
 
Moglia, who serves as the Executive Director for Football and Executive Advisor to the President at Coastal Carolina and is Chairman of Fundamental Global and Capital Wealth Advisors, will join the likes of Frankie Frisch, Vince Lombardi, Wellington Mara, Charlie Yelverton, Anne Gregory O'Connell, and Vin Scully in the Fordham Athletics Hall of Fame. The new class is scheduled to be inducted on 2021 Homecoming weekend on Thursday, October 7, on the Rose Hill campus. Specifics will be released when available.
 
A 1971 Fordham College at Rose Hill graduate, Moglia is also a graduate of Fordham Prep, where he lettered in football and baseball, earning all-city and all-conference honors and also started his coaching career.
 
After his time at Fordham College, he coached college football for 16 years, winning two Ivy League Championships as the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College and setting national records as a defensive and special teams coach at Lafayette College.
 
Moglia left coaching in 1984 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.
 
He returned to college coaching in 2009 at the University of Nebraska where he coached for two seasons before becoming the head coach Omaha Nighthawks in the United Football League in 2011.
 
A five-time National Coach of the Year finalist and the 2015 Eddie Robinson FCS National Coach of the Year Award winner, Moglia made an immediate impact upon his arrival at Coastal Carolina prior to the 2012 season.
 
In six seasons (2012-16, '18) on the sidelines at Coastal, Moglia posted an overall record of 56-22.
 
After a 29-28 overall record, including going just 1-9 versus the two best teams in the Big South, over the five years prior to Moglia, the Chanticleers went a combined 51-15 over his first five years at the helm of the program, including winning four conference championships (2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016*) and qualifying for the NCAA Football Championship Playoffs all five seasons.
 
During that span, the Chanticleers finished each year ranked in the top 25 nationally and ranked as high as the No. 1 team in the country in both 2014 and 2015.
 
CCU also won the program's first-ever postseason game in 2012, won a league-record 12 games and reached the NCAA quarterfinals in 2013, and went on to match both those feats the following season in 2014. The Chants were ranked No. 1 in the FCS for eight straight weeks in 2015 and went on to go 10-2 in 2016, their first year in transition to the FBS level.
 
Moglia was named the Big South Conference Coach of the Year twice and the 2014 AFCA Regional Coach of the Year. He was twice named a finalist for the Liberty Mutual FCS National Coach of the Year and was a three-time Eddie Robinson FCS National Coach of the Year finalist before winning the award as the nation's best coach in 2015.
 
A 2017 inductee into the Vince Lombardi Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Vince Lombardi Hall of Fame Award for his career, he was also awarded the 2015 South Carolina Football Hall of Fame Humanitarian award.
 
While Moglia is like most coaches in putting a true emphasis on the three phases of the game - offense, defense, and special teams, his outside-the-box thinking on how to achieve this goal with his staff was visionary. On that level, he has just one standard  "Be A Man" — better known as "BAM" —where his student-athletes are expected to "stand on their own two feet, take responsibility for their actions, always treat others with dignity and respect, and recognize they will live with the consequences of their actions".
 
In 2017, Coach Moglia's program was recognized, along with Northwestern, by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame with the most graduates of any school nationally with18 players seeking a second degree. Over his tenure, he has had almost 50 players pursuing graduate studies while still eligible.
 
Moglia has also been inducted into the following Halls of Fame: Vince Lombardi Hall of Fame; National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, Man of the Year; Omaha Business Hall of Fame; Archmere Academy Sports Hall of Fame; Fordham Preparatory School Hall of Honor; Fordham Preparatory Sports Hall of Fame; and the Fordham University Founders Society.
 
He has received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Sharp Trophy for Leadership and has been honored by the Columbus Citizens Foundation, the Irish Arts Center, the American Institute for Stuttering, and the Stuttering Association for the Young.
 
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