Career
He is currently the head football coach at the University of Sioux Falls, a position he assumed before the 2010 season. Stugart served as the head football coach at Middle America Nazarene University from 2006 to 2008. A native of Greeley, Colorado, Stugart played college football as a linebacker at Azusa Pacific University.
During the 1990s he pursued a country music career in Nashville, Tennessee.
Performing as Jed Lance he opened for Lonestar, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Tim McGraw. Stugart returned to Greeley in the late 1990s and volunteered as a high school football coach.
Joe Glenn, then head football coach at the University of Northern Colorado, hired Stugart to join his staff as a volunteer. Stugart later became a graduate assistant at Northern Colorado before being promoted to defensive coordinator in 2003.