Interim Head Football Coach
Dennis Gossard, 10th Season as H.C./32nd Year at PCC
Career Head Coaching Record: 49-42-1
Coach Office Phone: 626-585-7769
----------------------------------------------------------------------------Entering his 32nd season, Dennis Gossard has been a fixture as a football coach at PCC. He has the longest coaching tenure of any sports coach on the PCC campus. And now for the third time in his career here, Gossard will be in charge of the Lancers program as interim head coach in 2010.
As head coach from 1987-1994 and in 2005, Gossard’s teams won 49 games, ranking him third best on the PCC all-time football coaching list. This year, he passes R. Frank Baker and Tom Maher for the most seasons (nine each) in charge of the football program at 10 seasons.
Only former PCC Athletic Director Skip Robinson, who retired from coaching, has been at PCC longer than Gossard among remaining full-time PCC employees from the Kinesiology, Health & Athletics Division.
As head coach, Gossard guided the Lancers to a pair of bowl championships with victories in the 1990 Orange County Bowl and 1992 Rose City Classic Bowl, hosted by PCC.
Overall, Gossard, 63, has been a part of seven PCC bowl champion squads and three conference title winners. As a head coach, 147 of his players earned scholarships at 4-year universities.
The 1992 team finished 10-1 and defeated College of the Desert in the Rose City Classic Bowl. Then quarterback Ed Hervey was the MVP of that game and he recently ended a distinguished professional football-playing career as a wide receiver in the CFL with the Edmonton Eskimos.
Among pro players that Gossard coached were 1995 All-NFL rookie team selection and running back Darick Holmes (Buffalo Bills, ’91 PCC), wide receiver Ray Ethridge (Baltimore Ravens, '90 PCC), and defensive back Charles Mincy (Oakland Raiders, ‘88 PCC).
In 2002, Gossard coached All-American linebacker James Griffin, who went on to play at Virginia Tech University. Gossard was defensive coordinator on the 2001 team that won the Mission Conference championship, went 10-1, and won the South County Bowl title. From 1987-84, he coached 14 JC All-Americans, including 1992 MC Defensive Player of the Year Donta Simpson.
In 1979, Gossard joined the PCC family for the first time on Harvey Hyde’s Lancer assistant coaching staff. Gossard has served a variety of different areas including coaching linebackers, defensive linemen, offensive linemen, tight ends and running backs.
Gossard earned a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University after playing football at both Crescenta Valley High and Glendale College. He coached at Crescenta Valley from 1970-78 and was an assistant coach for a prep power that won four league titles and the CIF championship in 1973.
Gossard received his master’s degree in physical education at Point Loma University in San Diego.
Married to wife Jeri, Gossard has two adult children, daughter Jessica, 34, and son Hudson, 25. Hudson is a former All-CIF quarterback at Crescenta Valley High and led the state in passing yards in 2001.
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