Doug Coate

Tail Backs Coach / Recruiting Coordinator

  Doug Coate will coach the USF tailbacks again in 2010, his 10th season as a member of the USF coaching staff. He also assumes the duties of recruiting coordinator.

  Coate, who has coached an NAIA Player-of-the-Year in Cory Jacquay and an AFCA NAIA All-American in Daniel Carter (2009) while at USF, came to USF in June of 2000. Then Athletic Director Kevin Donley named Coate head baseball coach and assistant football coach. Coate has coached 13 1,000-yard single-season rushers during his career including two NAIA Rawlings National Player-of-the-Year award winners - Cory Jacquay (USF) in 2004 and Bo Hurley in 1997 (University of Findlay). Under Coate's guidance, Carter became the first back-to-back 1,000-yard rusher in USF history.

  Prior to joining the staff at USF, Coate spent 15 years at the University of Findlay.

  Coate moved up to head football coach at UF in 1999, after serving as offensive coordinator for three seasons including 1997, when the Oilers won the NAIA National Championship.  Coate's coaching career began in 1985 at UF, where he coached the offensive backfield and helped guide the Oilers to three NAIA national championships.  He also played in one for UF. Prior to joining the UF staff, Coate served as an assistant coach at Georgetown College for two seasons under Donley.

  Hurley, who played quarterback at UF in 1997, was the first NAIA Rawlings National Player-of-the-Year after NAIA merged its football programs from two divisions to one.

  Coate, a 1978 Bellefontaine (Ohio) High School graduate, earned his bachelor's degree in education from Findlay in 1983 and received his master's degree in secondary education from Georgetown College in 1985. 

  He and his wife, Julie, reside in Fort Wayne with their two children, daughter Kylene and son Seth.