Coach Charles Coe is in his fourth season as the Assistant Head Coach after helping to get the program off the ground in 2014.
Coach Coe comes to MBU with over 40 years of coaching experience at every level of football. Coach Coe has been a head coach at Alabama State, an assistant with the Oakland Raiders and an assistant at nine- NCAA Division I programs.
Coach Coe served as an assistant coach at nine NCAA Division I programs, including Mizzou, Louisville, Tennessee, Memphis, Kansas State, Pittsburgh, Iowa, Cincinnati and Ball State.
In 2003, he was named the head coach at Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) member Alabama State. He guided the Hornets to a SWAC Eastern Division title and was named an Eddie Robinson Award finalist, which honors the top coach in NCAA Division I FCS. The next season, the Hornets repeated as Eastern Division champions and Coe was again named an Eddie Robinson Award finalist. He was also named SWAC Coach of the Year after the Hornets completed a 10-2 season.
In four seasons at the helm of the program, Coe compiled a 29-18 record and produced current NFL quarterback Tavaris Jackson. From 2007-2008, he was the wide receivers coach for the Oakland Raiders. During his time at the professional level, he was invited to be the receivers coach at the Senior Bowl All-Star Game held in Mobile, Ala. Coe starred in both baseball and football during his playing days. He was an All-American shortstop at Kansas State University and was drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft in 1971 by the Detroit Tigers. He played two seasons in that organization before joining the St. Louis Football Cardinals in 1974.
Coe’s son, Michael, played at the University of Arkansas for three seasons, before transferring to play for his father at Alabama State. Michael was a fifth-round draft pick by the Colts and won a Super Bowl ring in 2011 with the New York Giants. Coach Coe is the grandfather of Rodney Coe, who was named a US Army All-American in 2010 after a standout career at Edwardsville High School.
