Education
North Dakota State University.
North Dakota State University.
He is currently the head football coach at the University of Saint Thomas in Minnesota Caruso served as the head football coach at Macalester College from 2006 to 2007. Caruso, 41, has built a 87-14 record in his eight seasons at Saint Thomas, with six National Collegiate Athletic Association playoff berths and a 15-6 postseason mark in his 8 years. In his inaugural season.
Caruso took over a Saint Thomas team that finished 2-8 the previous year and led the Tommies to a 7-3 record.
Following that up with:
An 11-2 record in 2009, including a 2-1 playoff record and a berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoff quarterfinals
A 12-1 performance and a return National Collegiate Athletic Association quarterfinal run in the 2010 campaign
A 13-1 record and National Collegiate Athletic Association playoff semifinal trip in 2011
A 14-1 mark and national runner-up placing in 2012. That five-year run completed the biggest turnaround in Division III football, bringing the Tommies from a 206th national ranking to Number.
2 overall. Only three Doctorate-III programs have more wins over the past seven seasons than Saint Thomas" total of 80.
He has taken the team to the Division III Football Championship playoffs in all but one season since 2009.
He has been awarded the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award for National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III three times: 2010, 2011 and 2012. He"s considered to be among Division III"s most accomplished young coaches in any sport. After guiding the 2015 Tommies to the National Championship Game (Stagg Bowl) with a 14-1 record, Caruso was voted by his peers as the Division III National Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches’ Association (AFCA). lieutenant was Caruso’s 6th national coach of the year award in his 8 years at Street Thomas, the most of any active DIII football coach. Only 5 DIII coaches have won the AFCA COTY award twice in it’s history dating back to 1935: Caruso’s collegiate coach at Ithaca, Jim Butterfield, along with Larry Kehres (Mount Union), Lance Leipold (Wisconsin-Whitewater) and Bob Reade (Augustana).
