Appalachian State Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Line Coach Mark Ivey has been named interim head coach, in the wake of Scott Satterfield’s departure to become head coach at the University of Louisville.

Ivey added the title as assistant head coach prior to the 2018 season and will lead the Sun Belt Conference Champion Mountaineers in pursuit of the program’s fourth consecutive bowl title. The Mountaineers will face Middle Tennessee State in the New Orleans Bowl on December 15.

In 2015, App State became the first FBS program to win a bowl game in its first eligible season, and have duplicated that unprecedented status with bowl titles in 2016-17.

Ivey was a 28-game starter as a defensive lineman at App State from 1992-95 and returned to the program in 2012 as outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator. In 2014, Ivey began coaching the defensive line during App State’s inaugural FBS season, for what has been a record-setting Mountaineer defense.