Early coaching career Glenn served as backfield coach at the
University of South Dakota in 1974. He was also a backfield coach at
Northern Arizona University in 1975. Glenn's first head coaching job was at
Doane College in
Crete, Nebraska. There he was the youngest head college football coach at 27 years of age. While at Doane he compiled a 21–18–1 record over four seasons. After Doane, Glenn made his first stint at the
University of Montana as a
quarterbacks and
wide receivers coach and
offensive coordinator from 1980 to 1985. He was out of coaching in 1986. In 1987, he joined the staff at
University of Northern Colorado (UNC) as quarterbacks and kicking coach. He was named head coach of UNC for the 1989 season. Prior to coaching at Montana, Glenn led the
Division II University of Northern Colorado to two
NCAA Division II Football Championships in 1996 and 1997. Glenn spent eleven seasons at UNC, with a 98–35 record.
Montana Glenn coached at Montana for three seasons, from 2000 to 2002, and compiled a 39–6 record. In 2001, the Grizzlies won the
NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship, defeating
Furman in the title game. The year before, the Grizzlies finished as the NCAA Division I-AA runner-up, losing to
Georgia Southern in the championship game. In 2002, Montana finished in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs.
Wyoming Over a three-year period, Glenn and his staff took a team that won only five games in the three previous seasons to a
Las Vegas Bowl win in two seasons. The 24–21 victory over
UCLA on December 23, 2004, marked the first
bowl appearance for Wyoming in 11 years and their first bowl victory in 38 years. In 2005, after starting 4–1, including a victory over the
Ole Miss, the Cowboys went on a six-game losing skid, finishing 4–7. The 2006 season was one which saw the Cowboys picked to finish last in the conference. After an opening day victory over
Utah State, the Cowboys suffered four losses, two of them in overtime. Then the Cowboys fortunes began to shift. The team enjoyed a four-game winning streak, all against conference opponents. The Cowboys next two games were both road losses, the first against
TCU, in which they managed only a field goal. The next game was on the road against No. 25
BYU. The Cougars trounced the Cowboys, 55–7. The Cowboys fell to 5–6. The Cowboys won their final game against
UNLV, moving them to a 6–6 record, and making them bowl eligible but the team did not receive an invitation. The 2007 Cowboys season started off with a 23–3 victory over
Atlantic Coast Conference-member
Virginia. By the end of October, Wyoming was 5–3 and needed only one win in its last four games to become bowl-eligible. However, the Cowboys lost all four games to finish 5–7, including a 50–0 thrashing at the hands of
Utah on November 10. Offensive coordinator Billy Cockhill was fired at the end of the 2007 season and replaced by Bob Cole, formerly of
Florida A&M in an attempt to improve the Cowboy's anemic offense. Junior college signal caller Dax Crum came to the Laramie campus from the
Mesa Community College in
Arizona to compete for the starting quarterback job, which he won over junior Karsten Sween. The
2008 Cowboys opened the season with a win over
Mid-American Conference-member
2008 Ohio Bobcats football team (21-20), a loss to
Air Force (23-3) and a win over FCS
North Dakota State (16–13). Wyoming followed up that victory with five straight losses: to
BYU (44–0),
Bowling Green (45–16),
New Mexico (24–0),
Utah (40-7), and
TCU (54–7). On November 1, the Pokes beat
San Diego State, 35–10, at home and then followed with a win over
Tennessee, 13–7, on the road a week later. Five days later, on Thursday, Wyoming lost to
UNLV, 22–14, on the road. Wyoming finished the season by losing to arch rival
Colorado State, 31–20, at home in the 100th
Border War. The following day, November 23, 2008, Glenn was fired. Glenn finished his career at Wyoming with an overall record of 30–41 (.423), and 15–31 (.326) versus Mountain West opponents. Glenn joined the
Mtn. as a game-day analyst in 2009. In 2010, he left the Mtn. and joined the
WAC Sports Network as a color commentator.
South Dakota Glenn was named USD's 29th head football coach on December 5, 2011. Glenn started coaching the Coyotes during the 2012 season as they started their first season as a full-fledged member in Division I-FCS football, competing in the
Missouri Valley Football Conference. ==Controversy==