GREENVILLE (WSPA) – Bruce Fowler has resigned his position as Furman’s head football coach.

7 Sports Todd Summers reported Fowler was out Friday morning after six years as the head coach at his alma mater. The Paladins just completed a 3-9 season. Fowler’s overall record at Furman was 27-43.

Furman won the Southern conference Championship in 2013 and Fowler was named Coach of the Year that season for leading the Paladins into the FCS playoffs.

All-told he spent 28 seasons at Furman as a player, assistant coach, and head coach.

Fowler was a walk-on in 1977 and eventually played cornerback for the program’s first SoCon championship team in 1978 and 1980 title squad.

He later served as an assistant coach on both sides of the ball between 1978 and 2001 before joining the staff of former Furman head coach Bobby Johnson at Vanderbilt.

Fowler returned to Furman as the head coach in 2010.

“This is a difficult day for Furman University and Paladin Football,” said director of athletics Mike Buddie. “Bruce Fowler is an outstanding man whose integrity, love for the university, and work ethic on behalf of Furman and the football program have been exemplary. He’s demonstrated a thorough commitment to the student-athletes and represented Furman in a first class manner at all times. We certainly wish him the very best.”