No competitive football team ever wants to finish 1-11. No competitve football team wants their only win of the season to be against the one team they were supposed to beat… and doing so only in a defensive struggle. No competitive football team wants to go down as the worst team in program history by winning percentage.
Yet, that is exactly where the Chippewas found themselves by the end of the 2018 season.
Their head coach Jon Bonamego, an alum who learned under legendary head coach Herb Deromedi and was by all measures a Chippewa, through and through, was unceremoniously let go after a humiliating 51-13 loss to Toledo on Black Friday, amid a cloud of personal animosity.