CLARION — Moving around is nothing new for Chris Weibel.

The East Brady native and current quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator at Clarion University played for two high school football teams and four arena league teams in five years.

At some point, he likely will be on the move again while building a coaching career.

"Offensive coordinator, head coach — those roles are definitely in his future," Clarion head football coach Jay Foster said.

The Clarion University Athletic Hall of Fame is in his immediate future. Weibel will be inducted during a banquet Friday.

Weibel is a 1998 Clarion graduate who owns five career records as a quarterback with the Golden Eagles: 1,065 pass attempts, 586 completions, 65 touchdowns, 7,845 passing yards and 8,136 yards of total offense.

As a junior, he threw for 2,880 yards and 32 touchdowns in leading Clarion to an 11-3 record and a berth in the NCAA Division II national semifinals.

"It was perfect," Weibel said of that 1996 season. "Three or four weeks after school let out for the holidays, we were still on campus practicing and playing football.

"Everyone else was home for Thanksgiving. We weren't. And we didn't care. We were like a family. We couldn't wait to get on the field together. I'll never forget that."

Weibel's football life hasn't always been that stable.

As a sophomore at East Brady High in 1989, he was that program's last starting quarterback. Weibel passed for 1,619 yards and 20 touchdowns as East Brady put together a 9-1 season and won the final Little 12 Conference championship.

The following year, the school was no more as East Brady became part of the Karns City consolidation. Weibel wound up at Armstrong Central, a Quad-A school, his junior and senior years.

"I went from a Class A school to Class AAAA, from a wide-open spread offense to a Wing-T," Weibel recalled. "It was a rough transition."

Still, he managed to pass for nearly 900 yards in each of his two seasons at Armstrong and received some scholarship offers.

"It worked out for me in the end because I played against some big-school competition, which I'm sure helped me as a recruit," Weibel said.

A few Mid-American Conference schools, Temple, Clarion and Slippery Rock recruited Weibel. He opted for Clarion because it was located a half-hour from where he grew up.

"If I was going Division II, I wasn't going far from home," he said.

Graduating from Clarion in 1998 with a marketing degree, Weibel played arena football for five years. He played for the Erie Invaders in the IFL, Florida Firecats and Greensboro Prowlers in AFL 2, Myrtle Beach Stingrays of the NIFL and Grand Rapids of the AFL.

He completed 23 of 25 passes for 330 yards and nine touchdowns in a game for Greensboro in 2002.

"Arena ball was a lot quicker," Weibel said. "It's 3-on-3 man coverage, basically, whether your guy was faster than their guy. You make snap decisions and get rid of the ball."

Before tearing his ACL in the second game of his senior season at Clarion in 1997, Weibel said he had visions of playing in the NFL. After five seasons of arena football, he was ready for something else.

"I got tired of picking up and moving all the time," he said. "I was offensive coordinator at Moniteau for two years while I was still playing. That's when I started looking at coaching.

"When (former Clarion coach) Malen Luke said I had a job on his staff if I wanted it, I jumped on it."

When Luke left Clarion and before Foster was hired, Weibel was the only coach who stayed on board at the university to continue recruiting.

"That spoke volumes for the type of person he is," Foster said. "That was simple pride in his university. Chris didn't know what the future held for him here. He had no guarantees.

"He just didn't want to see his alma mater fail."

"I wanted to keep recruits up on the program," Weibel said. "I was selling the university to kids, which was easy to do since I've been through the system here as a player."

Weibel is the only assistant coach from Luke's staff to be retained by Foster.

"Chris has always been a competitor with a refusal to give in," Foster said. "He's got a great offensive mind for football and understands the psychology of coaching.

"I'm not surprised at all that he's going into the Hall of Fame."