<p>CLINTON, S.C. — Presbyterian has announced that football coach Tommy Spangler won’t return to the Football Championship Subdivision school. </p>
<p>Athletic director Rob Acunto said Wednesday that after a review, it was determined the “change in leadership was in the best interest of PC and its student athletes.” </p>
<p>Acunto said the school has begun a national search for Spangler’s replacement. </p>
<p>Spangler was in his second stint as Presbyterian football coach. He went 42-24 from 2001-06, leading the program to the NCAA Division II Playoffs in 2005 before the school moved up to FCS. </p>
<p>Spangler returned to the school as its defensive coordinator in 2013 and was elevated to head coach after the 2016 season. He was 12-28 the past four seasons, including a 4-3 mark in the recently completely spring season after not playing this past fall due to COVID-19. </p>
<p>The school currently competes in the non-scholarship FCS conference, the Pioneer League. </p>
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