Roger Thomas (born August 19, 1947) is a former American college athletics administrator and

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coach. He was the

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at the

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from 2008 to 2017. Thomas was previously the head football coach at Sioux Falls College—now known as the University of Sioux Falls—from 1976 to 1977 and at the

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from 1986 to 1998. He was also the athletic director at North Dakota from 1999 to 2005. Subsequently, he served as the commissioner of the

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's North Central Conference (NCC) from 2005 until the conference's demise in 2008.

Head coaching record

Football

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