Manny Roman has FDU on verge of first winning season in nearly 30 years. (Shotgun Spratling)

Coast & Coast Notebook: Manny Roman keeping it going at Fairleigh Dickinson

Manny Roman was on vacation in Florida. He was walking into Legoland with family when he got the call. His boss, then-Fairleigh Dickinson head coach Rob DiToma, was heading across the country, calling to inform Roman he had accepted the head coach position at the University of San Francisco. 

DiToma had helped breath some life into a comatose FDU program that had only two winning conference records in the 20 years before he was hired after the 2019 season. Last year, in their second full season under DiToma, the Knights had been Northeast Conference contenders all the way through the final[…]