Mike Landers (American football)

Mike Landers
Current position
TitleSpecial teams coordinator / defensive line coach
TeamBentley
ConferenceNE-10
Playing career
1994–1995Georgia Tech
Position(s)Defensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1998Wesleyan (assistant)
1999–2003Bridgewater State (assistant)
2004–2007Nichols (assistant)
2008–2017Mount Ida
2018–2019Framingham State (DC/ST)
2020–2021Dedham HS (MA) (assistant)
2022Brockton HS (MA) (assistant)
2023–presentBentley (ST/DL)
Head coaching record
Overall51–63
Tournaments0–1 (NCAA D-III playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 ECFC (2012)

Michael Landers is an American college football coach. He is the special teams coordinator and defensive line coach for Bentley University, a position he has held since 2023.[1] He served as the head football coach at Mount Ida College from 2008 to 2017.[2] He played as a walk-on athlete at Georgia Tech.[3][4]

The college closed after spring commencement in 2018; the University of Massachusetts Amherst acquired the campus and renamed it the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst.[5]

  1. ^ "Thakkar Announces Coaching Staff for 2023 Season". August 8, 2023. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Fenton, Jim (March 26, 2008). "Landers gets a team of his own". EnterpriseNews.com. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  3. ^ Pave, Marvin (March 20, 2008). "New head football coach at Mount Ida". Boston Globe. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  4. ^ Haley, Tom (November 14, 2009). "Playoff fever hits Norwich, Mount Ida campuses". Rutland Herald. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  5. ^ Stendahl, Max (April 22, 2018). "Mount Ida spent $30M to upgrade campus that will be sold to UMass". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved April 24, 2018.