Pat Behrns  Patrick Charles Behrns (born May 16, 1950) is a former American college football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Nebraska at Omaha from 1994 through the program being discontinued in March 2011, and was also the head coach of the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team from 1980 to 1985. He is a 1972 graduate of Dakota State University.