Mike Gottsch

{{Short description|American football player and coach}}

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| player_years1 = 1984–1985

| player_team1 = Moorpark JC

| player_years2 = 1986–1987

| player_team2 = Tabor

| player_positions = Quarterback

| coach_years1 = 1992–1996

| coach_team1 = Henderson HS (NE)

| coach_years2 = 1997–1999

| coach_team2 = Colby HS (KS)

| coach_years3 = 2004–2006

| coach_team3 = Southmont HS (IN)

| coach_years4 = 2007–2009

| coach_team4 = Tabor

| coach_years5 = 2010–2014

| coach_team5 = Sapulpa HS (OK)

| overall_record = 3–27 (college)

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Mike Gottsch is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas from 2007 to 2009, conpluing a record of 3–27.[http://www.tabor.edu/athletics/teams/football/coaches Football Tabor College varsity football coaches] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102181613/http://www.tabor.edu/athletics/teams/football/coaches |date=November 2, 2007 }} Tabor College, Accessed March 11, 2008.[http://www.taborbluejays.com/article/490.php Tabor College] "Tabor Football Coach Mike Gottsch Resigns" The only win in his first season as head coach was a victory over Panhandle State University.[http://www.hillsborofreepress.com/content/view/18085788/57/ Tabor blasts Panhandle State, Hillsboro Free Press] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719032255/http://www.hillsborofreepress.com/content/view/18085788/57/ |date=July 19, 2008 }}

After the conclusion of the 2009 season at Tabor, Gottsch took a head coaching position at Sapulpa High School in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.[http://www.thepaper24-7.com/main.asp?SectionID=24&SubSectionID=23&ArticleID=24316 The Paper of Montgomery County] "Southmont Football: Gottsch on the move again" February 3, 2010 He compiled a record of 22–28 at Sapulpa before he was fired midseason in October 2014. Gottsch is a native of Elkhorn, Nebraska.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Mike |title=Chieftains dismiss Gottsch as football coach after five seasons |url=https://tulsaworld.com/chieftains-dismiss-gottsch-as-football-coach-after-five-seasons/article_b60284bc-b98f-5f73-a5c3-1007f7557e7d.html |newspaper=Tulsa World |location=Tulsa, Oklahoma |date=October 28, 2014 |access-date=October 27, 2020 }}