Chicago State is in the process of launching a football program at the FCS level, and it has begun the search for its first head coach.

Chicago State announced this week it's looking for its first-ever head football coach. Here's what that means for the university and for the inception of its football program.

Before joining Chicago State as its vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics, Carroll served as the director of intercollegiate athletics at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically Black college in Texas.