"Thomas "Tommy" Tate" was the head football coach for the McNeese State University McNeese State Cowboys/Cowboys football team from 2000 to 2006. He compiled a record of 49–26. Tate was given the Eddie Robinson Award in 2002 as the top NCAA Division I-AA College Football Coach of the Year when he guided the Cowboys to a 12–2 record and an appearance in the Division I-AA National Championship, where his team would ultimately finished as national runners-up. Tate would later be fired in the middle of the 2006 season after the Cowboys started 1–3. He was replaced by Matt Viator who coached McNeese to a 6–2 record the rest of the way (finishing 7–5) and earn the school another Southland Conference title.

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Those kind of things could be the difference between being 4-7 and 7-4. People don't realize how hard it is to win a football game, how many things you have to do well.

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We're young and we have to learn consistency. We look good at practice, we have to carry that over to games.

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