Todd Armstrong Fitch (born February 15, 1964)
is an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
coach and former player who is currently an offensive analyst at Ohio State. He has served as an assistant coach at various programs since the mid-1980s.
Playing career
Fitch was born in
Saline, Michigan
Saline ( ') is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,948 at the 2020 census. The city borders Saline Township to the southwest, and the two are administered autonomously.
History
Before the 18th centur ...
; his family then lived in nearby
Dundee but eventually moved to
Bellaire, Ohio
Bellaire is a village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, and Wheeling is across the Ohio to the east. The population was 4,278 at the 2010 census, having had its peak i ...
.
He graduated from
Bellaire High School, where he played football, and then attended
Ohio Wesleyan University in
Delaware, Ohio
Delaware is a city in and the county seat of Delaware County, Ohio, United States. Delaware was founded in 1808 and was incorporated in 1816. It is located near the center of Ohio, is about north of Columbus, and is part of the Columbus, Ohio ...
.
One of his best friends at Ohio Wesleyan was
Tim Corbin
Timothy Carter Corbin (born August 5, 1961) is the head baseball coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team. Since becoming coach at Vanderbilt in 2003, Corbin has transformed the Commodores from a perennial Southeastern Conference doormat t ...
, then two years ahead of him and the football student-manager. Fitch and Corbin were reunited in 2020 when Fitch became an assistant at Vanderbilt; Corbin had been the head baseball coach there since 2003.
He played
defensive back
In gridiron football, defensive backs (DBs), also called the secondary, are the players on the defensive side of the ball who play farthest back from the line of scrimmage. They are distinguished from the other two sets of defensive players, the ...
from 1982 to 1985, lettering 1983–1985, and earning All-
North Coast Athletic Conference
The North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed of colleges located in Ohio and Indiana. When founded in 1984, the league was a pioneer in gender equality, offering competition in a then-unprecede ...
honors in 1985.
Head coaching record
References
External links
Vanderbilt profile
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1964 births
Living people
American football defensive backs
Boston College Eagles football coaches
Bowling Green Falcons football coaches
Colorado State Rams football coaches
East Carolina Pirates football coaches
Iowa State Cyclones football coaches
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football coaches
Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops football coaches
Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops football players
South Carolina Gamecocks football coaches
South Florida Bulls football coaches
UConn Huskies football coaches
West Virginia Mountaineers football coaches
Vanderbilt Commodores football coaches
Bowling Green State University alumni
People from Bellaire, Ohio
People from Saline, Michigan
Coaches of American football from Ohio
Players of American football from Ohio