Kurt Charles "K. C." Keeler is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at the University of Delaware, a position he has held since the 2002 season. Keeler served as the head football coach at Rowan University from 1993 to 2001. His 2003 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens squad won the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship, and returned to the Division I Championship game in 2007 and 2010. Keeler played high school football at Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. He went on to play collegiate football at the University of Delaware, where he was a... linebacker from 1978 to 1980 under coach Tubby Raymond. In 1980, Keeler signed a free agent contract with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He was one of the last players released during the 1980 pre-season. He later earned tryouts again with the Eagles and with the United States Football League's Philadelphia Stars and Jacksonville Bulls . Keeler began his coaching career as an assistant at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1981 and then at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey in 1986.
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