Coach Vince Cashdollar is in his fifth year as a Hornet and fourth season as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. In the last three seasons in the ultra-competitive MIAA, coach Cashdollar helped coordinate a Hornet offense that:

• Made back-to-back-to-back bowl appearances (including wins in the 2022 Live United Bowl and the 2023 Heritage Bowl)
• Averaged 35.3 points a game, including 40.7 points a game in 2023.
• Averaged 452.9 yards of total offense per game, including 497.4 yards per game in 2023.
• Produced six All-Americans and 29 All-MIAA selections.
• Set five new team and 13 new individual Hornet school offensive records.
• Ranked in the NCAA D2 top 25 in seven different team and 12 different individual statistical categories in 2023.

Coach Cashdollar will also continue his work with the offensive line in 2024.  In the last three seasons, three Hornet offensive linemen have received All-American honors while 12 Hornet offensive lineman have been named All-MIAA.  In 2023, guard Sherman Deaton was an honorable mention Don Hansen All-American.  Tackle Xavier Cason was named a Second Team AFCA All-American in 2022 while being named to the D2football.com “Elite 100” list.  Also in 2022, center Conner Lierz was an honorable mention Don Hansen All-American while being the only MIAA offensive lineman selected All Region 3 by the D2CCA.  Lierz was also a Gene Upshaw Award nominee for the best lineman in D2.  Lierz participated in the MIAA NFL pro day as well as the Dream Bowl after his senior season while Cason attended the College Gridiron Showcase. 

Prior to coming to Emporia State, coach Cashdollar spent the previous seven seasons at NCAA Division III Manchester University in Indiana.  He was the offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator for all seven years, became the offensive coordinator in 2016 and was quarterbacks coach in 2019.  Coach Cashdollar’s offensive linemen earned 21 All-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference honors athletically and academically.  During his tenure, the MU Spartan offense rewrote the school record books with 31 offensive school records.  In his four seasons as the offensive coordinator, coach Cashdollar developed 18 All-HCAC honorees.

In 2019, senior running back Donavan Henderson, Jr. rewrote the Manchester record books.  Henderson, a D3Football.com All-North Region honoree, finished second in the nation in rushing (1,703 yards) and rushing TDs (20).  Henderson ran for a school record 394 yards against Anderson and tied an NCAA record with eight rushing TDs against the Ravens.  Henderson's record day earned him a spot on the D3Football.com National Team of the Week (11/16/19).  Henderson ended his Black & Gold career as the school's all-time leading rusher with 3,969 yards and his 53 rushing TDs are the most in school history.

In 2018, Henderson led the HCAC after rushing for 1,268 yards and 17 TDs; the Spartans’ rushing offense finished third in school history with 1,940 yards on the season, while finishing tied for first in all of NCAA Division III in least tackles for loss allowed per game.  Coach Cashdollar also helped All-American wide receiver Dakota Nelson finish his MU career as the school record holder for receiving yards in a season (1,116 – 2017) and total career touchdowns (34).  Nelson worked out for the NFL at Ball State’s Pro Scouting Day in 2018.  The Manchester offense has also had three consecutive seasons with a National Football Foundation Campbell Trophy Semifinalist, honoring both academic and athletic excellence during coach Cashdollar’s tenure.

Prior to his time at Manchester, coach Cashdollar spent three years on the football staff at West Virginia University.  During his time in Morgantown, coach Cashdollar served as the offensive graduate assistant coach working with the offensive line and tight ends.  Coach Cashdollar helped the Mountaineer offense to two new school records, win two Co-Big East Championships, and play in three bowl games, while working with five future NFL offensive linemen.  He was a member of WVU’s Discover Orange Bowl Championship coaching staff in 2012 that set the NCAA record for points in a bowl game with 70.

Coach Cashdollar’s first coaching stint came at Ohio University where he served as a volunteer graduate assistant and offensive quality control coach.  In 2009, the Bobcats won the MAC East Division, appeared in the MAC Championship game, and played in the Little Caesar’s Bowl.

As a student athlete, coach Cashdollar was a four-year standout and two-time captain for NCAA Division II Ashland University in Ohio.  He helped the Eagles to the NCAA Division II playoffs in his senior campaign and earned a stockpile of honors during his career:

• First Team Division II American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) All-American honors in 2007
• Ashland University's Male Athlete of the Year in 2007
• Cactus Bowl participant in 2007
• First Team All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) pick in 2006 and 2007
• GLIAC Commissioners’ Award for academic and athletic excellence in 2007
• National Football Foundation post-graduate scholarship award winner in 2007

After this illustrious career, coach Cashdollar was inducted into the Ashland University athletic hall of fame in 2018.

Coach Cashdollar graduated from Ashland in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in 7-12 language arts and a minor in coaching.  He earned master’s degrees from West Virginia University in athletic coaching education and Ohio University in curriculum and instruction in education.
 
Coach Cashdollar works extensively in coaching professional development.  He was a 2021 selection to the NFL/NCAA coaches’ academy and has done extensive work for the AFCA including speaking at the national convention, writing for the coaching summer manual, and speaking on the “Inside the Headset Podcast”.  Coach Cashdollar has also been a regional Glazier clinic speaker along with multiple regional, state and high school association clinics.
Cashdollar and his wife Corey are the parents of a daughter, Syndey.