Last season was Todd's 2nd year as coach with TESL. Last year Todd's 17 Red team finished second in region and earned a national bid to USAV junior nationals in Atlanta. His team competed with the best teams in the country in open qualifiers and JVA events. His 15 Red team finished 7th in gold regionals.

In 2010 he guided our 16 Blue team to a 3rd place finish in gold regionals. The team competed at the highest level nationally, playing open in two national qualifiers, and two JVA events. Todd's teams are disciplined, well coached and highly competitive. Todd builds players into college recruitable athletes.

2010 marked Todd's tenth season at the helm of SIU-Edwarsdville Cougar volleyball.

Gober led the Cougars to a 13-14 record, and a third-place finish at the National Transitions Tournament, in their first NCAA Division I season.

In 2007, their final season at Division II, the Cougars advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive season and finished with a No. 14 national ranking in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, equaling their the best-ever ranking at SIUE.

Gober posted 20-plus victories in each of his first seven seasons at SIUE and completed the last five years at the Division II level with 25-plus wins each season. SIUE completed the 2007 season with a 27-7 record overall. In 2006, the Cougars tied the school record for wins with 29.

Gober entered the 2009 season with a career record of 189-70, averaging more than 23 victories a season in his eight seasons at SIUE. He has more wins than any other Cougar volleyball coach, which includes a mark of 68-10 on his home court.

Gober's teams have produced six All Americans and four Academic All Americans, including two Division I Academic All Americans.

His 2005 team won the program's first Great Lakes Valley Conference championship, and Gober made his first trip to the NCAA Tournament. He has since taken SIUE to two other NCAA Tournaments.

Prior to coming to SIUE, Gober posted a record of 204-50 (80.3 percent) as the head coach at Southwestern Illinois College (SWIC). He produced five junior college All-Americans, 22 All-Region selections, four conference Most Valuable Players and four Conference Freshmen of the Year. All of his teams at SWIC earned national rankings.

Gober's teams had not dropped below 20th in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) rankings and rose as high as seventh in the nation. In 1998 and 1999, SWIC appeared in the NJCAA tournament and finished fifth and ninth nationally, respectively. Gober was honored as the Conference Coach of the Year four times, the Region 24 Coach of the Year twice and District 15 Coach of the Year twice.

Gober's teams held a 96 percent graduation rate from 1996 through 1999. Twenty-one of 24 graduating sophomores under Gober received scholarships to four-year institutions. One of his graduates at SWIC was former Cougar Shanan McLean.

While Gober was working as SWIC's head volleyball coach, he also was an adjunct instructor of volleyball at SWIC as well as a Vice President and Compliance Officer at Citizens Community Bank in Mascoutah, where he continues to serve as a part-time consultant.

Gober has also partnered with the Grenadian Ministry of Sports to bring Volleyball to the Caribbean Island nation.

Gober earned a bachelor of arts degree in business (economics) from Northwestern (Iowa) College in 1985 and a master of arts in finance from Saint Louis University in 1991. Gober and his wife, Mary Joan, have three children, 15-year old Lexi, 11-year old Liza, and seven-year old Cole. The family resides in Edwardsville.