Mike Minter, the former Carolina Panther safety, will be the new football coach at Campbell, the Observer has learned.
A news conference will be held on campus in Buies Creek Tuesday to announce his hiring.
Minter, 38, is the special teams coach at Liberty. He previously was assistant head coach football coach at Johnson C. Smith and head coach at First Assembly Christian in Concord.
Minter played for the Panthers from 1997-2006.
Campbell will be the Charlotte 49ers' first opponent next season.

Good luck to Mike Minter, such a class act for the Panthers and an inspiration to so many of our youth in the area.
Posted by: John | November 26, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Best of luck. Legendary PANTHER
Posted by: Luke | November 26, 2012 at 01:02 PM
Cannot wait to see Mike Minter lead the football program here at my school. ECSTATIC!
Posted by: Jon G. | November 26, 2012 at 01:17 PM
Campbell University made an excellent choice. Good luck to coach Minter. I wish him great luck except against the Charlotte 49ers next fall.
Posted by: Big Bad John | November 26, 2012 at 01:35 PM
A solid player and an even better person who I've come to know quite well. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Mike Minter and I wish him nothing but the best of luck!
Posted by: FormerCCR | November 26, 2012 at 01:38 PM
Go Camels!
Posted by: Ryan | November 26, 2012 at 01:39 PM
a great guy, but an average player.
Hopefully he understands that coaches don't get paid to be great guys, nor do they succeed because they are great guys.
Posted by: TR | November 26, 2012 at 02:25 PM
Maybe Mike can help get the football stadium at Campbell finished now that he is the coach.
Posted by: Deacon | November 26, 2012 at 04:04 PM
What a mistake. Mike is the winner here. Horrible business man who puts up an awesome front. Talk to the people he owes $ to and see if they'd want him to represent an organization like Campbell. Great player, not a great person. Do your homework and check him out - if they had they may have chosen differently.
Posted by: Wild Bill D | November 26, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Good luck Mike and Go Big Red.
Posted by: DougOfCLT | November 26, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Good Luck, Mike. You can insure success if you can fix it so your players don't have to go to class.
Posted by: Ben | November 26, 2012 at 05:21 PM
Congratulations Mike!!! Welcome to the Campbell family.
Posted by: Anon. | November 26, 2012 at 05:30 PM
Maybe Mike will stay somewhere more than one season. It takes a couple years to find out if you are real or hype.
Posted by: BigD | November 26, 2012 at 05:36 PM
Agree in part with Wild Bill above - he left a lot of other people paying his debts. . .
Posted by: Out of Bounds | November 26, 2012 at 05:38 PM
Good guy, maybe...but Campbell is a Division I football program. I know a lot of local HS coaches who saw him in action at little First Assembly Christian that will laugh hysterically at this.
Posted by: This is funny | November 26, 2012 at 06:53 PM
Ohhhh Wild Bill D. You sound like a bitter old man who doesn't know Mike at all. Don't be jealous that he's actually done something with his life. He is the most hard working man i've ever had the honor of knowing. Do you really think that Campbell did no research on him? Are you dense? Of course they did! Are you home right now? Sitting on your computer with nothing better to do than to attempt to degrade a man that you clearly don't know at all?
Good luck Mike! We all know that you will do wonderful things for Campbell! You deserve it!
Posted by: Richard | November 27, 2012 at 12:21 PM
This will not be pretty. Condolences to the prud Camels alumni.
Posted by: Walter Rivers Sanborne | November 27, 2012 at 01:09 PM
RE: Richard - I actually have personal experience and debt with this man and his company. I know know him and his family and business VERY well. He hides behind a facade of lies and deceit and is in such bad straights he jumped at any school willing to pay him more money. Ask him where his family is, where his companies went. He's a joke. He was a horrible sportsman, played to the cameras and squandered a fortune. Richard, I'm not jealous. I'm sad for him.
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