List of Sun Belt Coach of the Year winners

The Sun Belt Conference has awarded Sun Belt Coach of the Year honors every season since 1976-77. The three coaches who have won the award the most times (three each) are Gene Bartow, Ronnie Arrow and Kermit Davis. South Alabama is the programs with the most awards (six), followed by Western Kentucky, New Orleans and Little Rock (four each). See also: Sun Belt Player of the Year

Year	Coach	School
1977	Lee Rose	Charlotte
1978	Butch van Breda Kolff	New Orleans
1979	Cliff Ellis	South Alabama
1980	Tates Locke	Jacksonville
1981	Gene Bartow	UAB
1982	Gene Bartow (2)	UAB (2)
1983	J. D. Barnett	VCU
1984	J. D. Barnett (2)	VCU (2)
1985	Gene Bartow (3)	UAB (3)
1986	Clem Haskins	Western Kentucky
	Tom Young	Old Dominion
1987	Murray Arnold	Western Kentucky (2)
1988	Jeff Mullins	Charlotte (2)
1989	Ronnie Arrow	South Alabama (2)
1990	Bobby Paschal	South Florida
1991	Ronnie Arrow (2)	South Alabama (3)
1992	Marty Fletcher	Southwestern Louisiana
1993	Tim Floyd	New Orleans (2)
1994	Matt Kilcullen	Jacksonville (2)
1995	Matt Kilcullen (2)	Western Kentucky (3)
1996	Wimp Sanderson	Arkansas-Little Rock
1997	Tic Price	New Orleans (3)
1998	Dickey Nutt	Arkansas State
1999	Keith Richard	Louisiana Tech
2000	Bob Weltlich	South Alabama (4)
2001	Joey Stiebing	New Orleans (4)
2002	Dennis Felton	Western Kentucky (4)
2003	Kermit Davis	Middle Tennessee
2004	Steve Shields	Arkansas-Little Rock (2)
2005	Terry Carroll	Denver
2006	John Pelphrey	South Alabama (5)
2007	Orlando Early	Louisiana-Monroe
2008	Ronnie Arrow (3)	South Alabama (6)
2009	Don Maestri	Troy
2010	John Brady	Arkansas State (2)
2011	Mike Jarvis	Florida Atlantic
2012	Kermit Davis (2)	Middle Tennessee (2)
2013	Kermit Davis (3)	Middle Tennessee (3)
2014	Ron Hunter	Georgia State
2015	Keith Richard (2)	Louisiana-Monroe (2)
2016	Chris Beard	Little Rock (3)
2017	Scott Cross	Texas-Arlington
2018	Bob Marlin	Louisiana (2)
2019	Chris Ogden	Texas-Arlington (2)
2020	Darrell Walker	Little Rock (4)
2021	Terrence Johnson	Texas State
2022	Terrence Johnson (2)	Texas State (2)
2023	Jay Ladner	Southern Miss
2024	Dustin Kerns	Appalachian State
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