Matt Land (coach)

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Matt Land is the current head football coach for Tri-State University. 2006 was first season as the program's head coach. The team finished 2-8. In 2007, they finished with a record of 6-4.

Land was also the head coach for the United Indoor Football league's Fort Wayne Freedom from 2003 to 2005, and for Fort Wayne's South Side High School from 2002 to 2005, each year he built up the team a little bit more until his last year in 2005 when he coached the team to its winningest season ever, including a sectional championship victory over traditional power house Bishop Dwenger High School, a regional victory over Delta High School and eventually them all the way to the semi-state game where the Archers lost to the Lowell Devils who went on to win the state title.

He was also the wrestling coach for Northrop High School. He was the center of a rebuilding process at South Side High School, in which he built a team that was 7-20 in 3 years prior to his arrival, and a 21-11 record in the following 3 seasons.