Assistant coaching Papageorgiou was an assistant coach at Washington until 1983, working with both running backs and the defensive line. Before taking the head coach position at Bethel he was an assistant for the
Willamette Bearcats in
Salem, Oregon.
Bethel Papageorgiou was the head football coach at
Bethel College in
North Newton, Kansas, serving for five seasons, from 1995 until 1999, and compiling a record of 18–29. He was named
Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) Coach of the Year in 1996 after leading Bethel to an overall record of 7–3 and a second-place finish in the KCAC with a conference mark of 7–1. Bethel went 5–5 in 1998, but was forced to forfeit all five of those victories in 1999 when it was discovered that an ineligible player has participated during the season. Papageorgiou resigned midway through the 1999 season, on November 3, and was replaced by
Mike Moore on an interim basis. ==Head coaching record==