SELINSGROVE, PA – Susquehanna University athletics director Sharief Hashim has announced the departure of head football coach Tom Perkovich, who will be taking over as head coach at University at Albany (UAlbany). An interim head coach will be announced soon, while a national search for a new head football coach gets underway.

"We'd like to thank Coach Perkovich for his memorable years of service to Susquehanna University and the mark he has left on our program," related Hashim. "We wish the best to him, his wife Brandi, and his family as they embark on this new journey. A search for a new head coach will begin immediately."

Perkovich ends an 11-year run at Susquehanna ranked second all-time in career wins (84) and career win percentage (.771). His 84-25 overall record includes a 43-7 mark in the last four years, during which the River Hawks made the NCAA Tournament. The team made it as far as the NCAA Semifinals in 2024 with a program-record 12 wins, as well as recently wrapping up their 2025 season advancing to the national quarterfinals, combining for a 6-2 playoff record between both seasons. His programs finished .500 or above throughout his run and never lost more than three games in a season dating back to 2017. That year also marked the first of four consecutive MAC-Centennial Bowl victories, including a 10-win season in 2019, the program's best season wins total in 28 years.

He was named the D3football.com Region 2 Coach of the Year in 2024 and the Landmark Conference's Coaching Staff of the Year in 2023 and 2025. Following the program's 2022 Centennial Conference championship season Perkovich was honored as the Maxwell Football Club's Andy Talley Regional Coach of the Year, given to the top prep or college coach in the Northeast, while he and his staff earned the Centennial's Coaching Staff of the Year. His players accounted for 18 All-American selections, along with two national players of the year when kicker Dominic Bourgeois was awarded the 2025 Associated Press (AP) Special Teams Player of the Year and center Dalton Simpson earned the 2022 Rimington Award, given to the nation's top center.