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| Seasons | School/Team | Title/Position Coached |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-Present | Florida | Running Backs / Special Teams Coordinator |
| 2014-17 | Mississippi State | Running Backs / Special Teams Coordinator |
| 2009-13 | Mississippi State | Running Backs |
| 1999-2008 | Auburn | Wide Receivers / Recruiting Coordinator |
| 1996-98 | Ole Miss | Wide Receivers / Recruiting Coordinator |
| 1995 | Ole Miss | Wide Receivers |
| 1992-94 | Stephen F. Austin | Wide Receivers / Special Teams |
| 1990-91 | TCU | Graduate Assistant |
| 1988-89 | Northeastern State | Graduate Assistant |
| Season | Bowl / Playoff Game | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Cotton Bowl (Florida) | Oklahoma | L, 55-20 |
| 2020 | SEC Championship (Florida) | Alabama | L, 52-46 |
| 2019 | Capital One Orange Bowl (Florida) | Virginia | W, 36-28 |
| 2018 | Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (Florida) | Michigan | W, 41-15 |
| 2017 | Taxslayer Bowl (Mississippi State) | Louisville | W, 31-27 |
| 2016 | St. Petersburg Bowl (Mississippi State) | Miami (Ohio) | W, 17-16 |
| 2015 | Belk Bowl (Mississippi State) | N.C. State | W, 51-28 |
| 2014 | Orange Bowl (Mississippi State) | Georgia Tech | L, 49-34 |
| 2013 | Liberty Bowl (Mississippi State) | Rice | W, 44-7 |
| 2013 | Gaytor Bowl (Mississippi State) | Northwestern | L, 34-20 |
| 2011 | Music City Bowl (Mississippi State) | Wake Forest | W, 23-17 |
| 2011 | Gaytor Bowl (Mississippi State) | Michigan | W, 52-14 |
| 2007 | Chick-fil-A Bowl (Auburn) | Clemson | W, 23-20 |
| 2007 | AT&T Cotton Bowl (Auburn) | Nebraska | W, 17-14 |
| 2006 | Capital One Bowl (Auburn) | Wisconsin | L, 24-10 |
| 2005 | Sugar Bowl (Auburn) | Virginia Tech | W, 16-13 |
| 2003 | Music City Bowl (Auburn) | Wisconsin | W, 28-14 |
| 2003 | Capital One Bowl (Auburn) | Penn State | W, 13-9 |
| 2001 | Peach Bowl (Auburn) | North Carolina | L, 16-10 |
| 2001 | Citrus Bowl (Auburn) | Michigan | L, 31-28 |
| 1997 | Motor City Bowl (Ole Miss) | Marshall | W, 34-31 |
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but what if he tries to convert gay dudes into heterosexual dudes
Maybe use a spot on Brown and a spot on an openly gay coach to spice it up
Ron made it work with a Muslim rb. He will make it work with a gay rb if he needs to.
Checks a lot of boxes Nebraska needs:
Greg Knox transformed Florida’s backfield and special teams units with his detail-oriented coaching style and longtime relationship with Gaytors head coach Dan Mullen.
Knox followed Mullen from Mississippi State and was hired at UF on Jan. 3, 2018, to his current role. During his time in Starkville, Miss., Knox worked as running backs coach (2009-17) and special team’s coordinator (2014-17).
A Rosebud, Texas native, Knox has 24 years of SEC coaching experience at Ole Miss, Auburn, Mississippi State and Florida.
Prior to accepting the job at Florida, Knox led the Bulldogs to a Taxslayer Bowl win over Louisville on Dec. 30, 2017, as MSU’s interim head coach.
Florida (2018-Present)
In 2020, Knox continued to put his imprint on the running backs and special teams units. On the rushing front, both Dameon Pierce and Malik Davis averaged 4.7 yards per carry while the running backs combined to haul in 67 passes for 752 yards.
Davis ranked fourth in the country among running backs with 12.2 yards per reception and his 100-yard performance against Georgia was the 11th most receiving yards in a single contest in the nation. The 100 receiving yards rank sixth all-time by a running back/fullback in Florida football history.
Special teams continued to shine in 2020 as the Gaytors checked in at third in the country and first in the SEC with a 44.2 net punting average. UF also ranked 17th in the nation and second in the conference with 12.6 yards per punt return.
Evan McPherson capped off his Florida career as the the SEC and school record holder for career field goal percentage among kickers with at least 50 attempts (85.0 percent / 51 of 60). McPherson set a single-season school record and tied for second nationally with four made field goals of 50-plus yards. The Fort Payne, Ala., native was also selected as a Lou Groza Award semifinalist for three straight seasons.
Kadarius Toney garnered numerous all-purpose accolades including being named a Paul Hornung Award finalist. Toney was also named to the Associated Press All-American second team and tabbed All-SEC by the AP and the coaches at all-purpose and return specialist. Toney was also a three-time Paul Hornung Award Honor Roll selection.
During the 2019 season, Knox used his player’s strength to capitalize in both the run game and on special teams.
The Gaytors had three rushing plays of 75-plus yards this season, setting a single-season school record. Previously, the 1982 Gaytors and 2008 Gaytors held the record with two such plays within a season.
One of those plays included Lamical Perine’s 88-yard touchdown run against No. 7 Auburn to seal the win. Perine’s 88 yards marked the fifth-longest run in school history and longest since 1988. Josh Hammond (76 yards at Kentucky) and Dameon Pierce (75 yards at South Carolina) accounted for the other two.
Additionally, this was the first time since 2008 that four different Gaytors – Perine, Pierce, Emory Jones and Kyle Trask – finished with at least four rushing touchdowns.
With Knox’s guidance, Perine was also one of the nation's top dual-threat backs in 2019, as he finished with 938 scrimmage yards (676 rushing, 262 receiving) and 11 total touchdowns. Perine finished his career ranked ninth in career rushing and receiving yards, totaling 3,159 over four years.
In the Orange Bowl, Perine was unstoppable, tallying 138 rushing yards and 43 receiving yards for three touchdowns. Perine’s explosive outing earned him Orange Bowl MVP honors.
Knox’s special teams unit also experienced success in 2019.
On the punt team, senior Van Jefferson was one of Florida’s “gunners.” In the Miami game, he downed a punt at Miami’s 5-yard line and recovered a muffed punt that set up a go-ahead touchdown in the third quarter.
Senior Tommy Townsend-- a Ray Guy Award semifinalist for a second straight year -- downed 20 of his 42 punts (47.6 percent) inside the 20-yard line this year; he downed 17 of 39 (43.6 percent) inside the 20 last year.
In 2018, Knox used a rotation to keep Florida’s stable of talented running backs fresh throughout each game and the entire season. That method worked as the Gaytors ranked fourth in the SEC in yards per carry (5.29) and yards per game (213.15).
Overall, his group totaled 2,771 yards rushing on 526 attempts during the season. That mark passed the 2007 Gaytors (2,602) for the program’s third-highest rushing yardage total since the start of 1990; only the 2008 Gaytors (3,326) and 2009 Gaytors (3,105) had higher totals.
In addition, UF rushed for 200-plus yards nine times, which tied the 2008 Gaytors for the highest number of times it hit that mark in a season since the start of 1996. For perspective, Florida combined for eight 200-yard rushing games from 2015-17.
Individually, Lamical Perine (826) and Jordan Scarlett (776) are the first pair of Gaytors with at least 775 rushing yards in a season since Elijah Williams (858) and Terry Jackson (780) both hit that mark in 1995. Only five Gaytors rushed for 600-plus yards in the eight seasons from 2010-17, with Scarlett being one of them (889 yards in 2016).
The Gaytors also had three different players (Scarlett, Perine, Feleipe Franks) who logged at least five rushing touchdowns in a season for the first time since 2010 (Trey Burton (11), Mike Gillislee (7), and Jordan Reed (5)).
Knox also guided rookie Dameon Pierce to SEC Freshman of the Week honors after he totaled seven carries for 63 yards at Tennessee, including a 48-yard score to ice the game in the fourth quarter.
Not to be outdone, Knox guided Florida’s special teams units to its best season since at least 2012.
Rookie kicker Evan McPherson was one of the 20 Lou Groza Award semifinalists and showed no sign of nerves replacing Eddy Pineiro, the 2017 FBS leader in field goal percentage (94.4% / 17-of-18). McPherson was 17 for 19 (89.5 percent) and ranked tied for sixth nationally and led all freshmen in field goal percentage. Among kickers with at least 15 attempts this season, McPherson ranked tied for fifth nationally.
Redshirt junior punter Tommy Townsend was named as a semifinalist for the 2018 Ray Guy Award and averaged 45.4 yards per punt on 51 attempts. He booted 14 punts of over 50 yards and registered 24 punts inside of the 20-yard line.
Against LSU, he recorded a career-long 71- yard punt, which was the seventh-longest punt in Florida football history.
From a kick-coverage standpoint, Florida was tied for 19th among FBS teams with three blocked kicks and punts in 2018. The three blocks are UF’s highest season total since 2012 (six) and the Gaytors had just four blocks from 2013-17.
Against Colorado State, Florida had two special teams’ touchdowns. The Gaytors blocked a punt and recovered it in the end zone for a punt return touchdown and WR Freddie Swain notched an 83-yard punt return touchdown later in the game.
Florida was one of 19 FBS teams (and one of three SEC teams--Georgia; Tennessee) with multiple punt return TDs. In addition, this is the first time since 2015 and only the second time since the start of the 2012 season the Gaytors have multiple punt return touchdowns in a season.
Florida has never had more than two in a season.
Swain ranked 19th nationally in punt return average (10.18; 224 yards, one touchdown on 22 returns). Overall, UF had five punt returns of 20-plus yards. Florida, Georgia (eight), Auburn (six) and Alabama (five) are the only other SEC teams with at least five such punt returns.
Mississippi State (2009-17)
Knox molded raw backs into All-Southeastern Conference talent and pros, coaching four starting running backs to the NFL. Over the course of his nine seasons in Starkville, Knox tutored a 1,000-yard rusher five times. Four of those backs reached the NFL.
Aeris Williams emerged as one of the top running backs in the SEC late in 2016, rushing for over 100 yards twice. As a sophomore that season, he averaged 112.5 yards per game on the ground in the last four regular season games of the year, including a spectacular 191-yard, two-touchdown performance in a 55-20 triumph over Ole Miss.
In 2017, MSU averaged 249.6 yards per game on the ground, which is third in the SEC and 14th nationally. That tally is the best by a Bulldog squad since 1980 when it put up a school-record 280.5 yards
per game.
In addition, Mississippi State produced the SEC's most individual 100-yard rushing games this season with 11 (six by Nick Fitzgerald, four by Williams, one by Keytaon Thompson). MSU rushed for over 250 yards eight times and was 7-1 in those contests.
The Bulldogs have eclipsed 250 rushing yards in 12 out of their last 19 games dating back to the 2016 season.
In 2015, Knox worked with junior Brandon Holloway, who was one of only three FBS players to record at least 400 rushing yards, 300 receiving yards and 500 kick return yards. Holloway cracked the MSU single-season top 10 for kickoff return yards with 567, including a school-record-tying 100-yarder in the season-opener at Southern Miss.
Josh Robinson, a once three-star high school recruit, was another Knox protégé. In 2014, Robinson earned second-team All-SEC honors and ranked third in the SEC in rushing yards. His 1,203 yards on the ground ranked third in school history while his 11 rushing scores tied for ninth in MSU annals. Robinson’s 1,573 all-purpose yards ended up second in school history.
Knox helped Robinson – in his first season as a starter – develop into one of the league’s most dazzling playmakers and one of the nation’s toughest after-contact runners. The Bulldogs’ ground attack catapulted the program to just its third 10-win season in school history, its first-ever No. 1 national ranking and its first appearance in the Orange Bowl in 73 years.
In May 2014, Robinson became the third MSU running back to be taken in the NFL Draft since 2010 when the Indianapolis Colts called his number in the sixth round with pick No. 205.
In 2013, LaDarius Perkins capped his career as the fifth-leading rusher in school history with 2,554 career yards. With Knox’s help in 2012, Perkins finished the regular season fourth in the SEC in rushing and second in the league in all-purpose yards. Through the first half of the 2012 campaign, Perkins was one of only two players nationally with a rushing touchdown through his first seven games.
Knox also mentored Anthony Dixon, the former NFL standout, during his senior season. Dixon rushed for a school-record 1,391 yards and found the end zone 12 times. But it wasn’t only the All-SEC tailback who thrived under Knox’s guidance, as the running backs combined for more than 2,000 yards as the Bulldogs led the conference in rushing yards.
Knox’s second season may have been an even greater coaching feat. Without a proven commodity like Dixon, the Bulldog offense used several different backs to accomplish nearly the same thing. Vick Ballard burst onto the scene and broke the 58-year-old school record for rushing touchdowns in a single season (19). Knox continued to coach Ballard for his senior season in 2011, when Ballard rewrote the school record book for running backs and went on to be drafted in the fifth round by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2012 NFL Draft.
He added a new title to his resume in the spring of 2014 as special team’s coordinator.
Over the previous four seasons (2014-17) under Knox, MSU ranks first in the SEC in blocked kicks and punts with 14, including two last season by Jeffery Simmons at Louisiana Tech in Week 2. Overall, that tally is third in the nation since 2014.
Auburn & Ole Miss (1995-2008)
Knox came to Mississippi State following a 14-year stretch as Tommy Tuberville’s wide receivers coach at both Ole Miss and Auburn. Knox was also the recruiting coordinator for the last 13 of those seasons.
A veteran of 15 postseason bowl games, Knox helped lead the Auburn offense to the top of the SEC in scoring in both 2004 and 2005.
He helped Ole Miss reach the 1997 Motor City Bowl, and was part of Auburn coaching staffs that finished football seasons in the 2001 Citrus and Peach Bowls, 2003 Capital One and Music City Bowls, the 2005 Sugar Bowl, the 2006 Capital One Bowl, and the 2007 Cotton and Chick-fil-A Bowls.
Of the eight players he has had selected in the NFL Draft, three came in just two years while at Auburn (Courtney Taylor in 2007, and Ben Obomanu and Devin Aromashodu in 2006). Knox helped Taylor become the school’s all-time leader in receptions, and Obomanu finished second in touchdown receptions.
Background
After earning his bachelor’s degree while playing quarterback for Northeastern State, Knox began his coaching career at his alma mater in 1988. Knox spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Northeastern State and two at TCU before being named to the staff at Stephen F. Austin in 1992.
In three seasons on the Lumberjacks’ staff as the receivers and special teams coach, Knox helped a program that had won only three games in the previous two seasons to the 1993 FCS playoffs and a top-25 ranking the following season.
A native of Rosebud, Texas, Knox is married to the former Toralyn Foster, and the couple has three sons --- Gregory, Torian and Tyson.
Greg Knox Coaching History
Seasons School/Team Title/Position Coached 2018-Present Florida Running Backs / Special Teams Coordinator 2014-17 Mississippi State Running Backs / Special Teams Coordinator 2009-13 Mississippi State Running Backs 1999-2008 Auburn Wide Receivers / Recruiting Coordinator 1996-98 Ole Miss Wide Receivers / Recruiting Coordinator 1995 Ole Miss Wide Receivers 1992-94 Stephen F. Austin Wide Receivers / Special Teams 1990-91 TCU Graduate Assistant 1988-89 Northeastern State Graduate Assistant
Postseason History
Season Bowl / Playoff Game Opponent Result 2020 Cotton Bowl (Florida) Oklahoma L, 55-20 2020 SEC Championship (Florida) Alabama L, 52-46 2019 Capital One Orange Bowl (Florida) Virginia W, 36-28 2018 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (Florida) Michigan W, 41-15 2017 Taxslayer Bowl (Mississippi State) Louisville W, 31-27 2016 St. Petersburg Bowl (Mississippi State) Miami (Ohio) W, 17-16 2015 Belk Bowl (Mississippi State) N.C. State W, 51-28 2014 Orange Bowl (Mississippi State) Georgia Tech L, 49-34 2013 Liberty Bowl (Mississippi State) Rice W, 44-7 2013 Gaytor Bowl (Mississippi State) Northwestern L, 34-20 2011 Music City Bowl (Mississippi State) Wake Forest W, 23-17 2011 Gaytor Bowl (Mississippi State) Michigan W, 52-14 2007 Chick-fil-A Bowl (Auburn) Clemson W, 23-20 2007 AT&T Cotton Bowl (Auburn) Nebraska W, 17-14 2006 Capital One Bowl (Auburn) Wisconsin L, 24-10 2005 Sugar Bowl (Auburn) Virginia Tech W, 16-13 2003 Music City Bowl (Auburn) Wisconsin W, 28-14 2003 Capital One Bowl (Auburn) Penn State W, 13-9 2001 Peach Bowl (Auburn) North Carolina L, 16-10 2001 Citrus Bowl (Auburn) Michigan L, 31-28 1997 Motor City Bowl (Ole Miss) Marshall W, 34-31
NFL PLAYERS (ROUND DRAFTED)
K Evan McPherson (5th) - Florida '21 - Cincinnati Bengals
RB LaMical Perine (4th) - Florida '20 - New York Jets
RB Jordan Scarlett (5th) - Florida '19 - Carolina Panthers
LS Hunter Bradley (7th) – Mississippi State ’18 – Green Bay Packers
P Logan Cooke (7th) – Mississippi State ’18 – Jacksonville Jaguars
RB Josh Robinson (6th) – Mississippi State ’15 – Indianapolis Colts
RB Vick Ballard (5th) – Mississippi State ’12 – Indianapolis Colts
RB Anthony Dixon (6th) – Mississippi State ’10 – San Francisco 49ers
WR Courtney Taylor (6th) – Auburn ’07 – Seattle Seahawks
WR Devin Aromashodu (7th) – Auburn ’06 – Miami Dolphins
WR Benjamin Obomanu (7th) – Auburn ’06 – Seattle Seahawks
WR Jeris McIntyre (6th) – Auburn ’04 – Kansas City Chiefs
WR Tim Carter (2nd) – Auburn ’02 – New York Giants
Personal Information
Birthdate: Sept. 10, 1963
Hometown: Rosebud, Texas
Education: 1986- Bachelor’s from Northeastern State; 1990- Masters from Northeastern State
Wife: Toralyn
Children: Gregory, Torian and Tyson
Greg Knox - Football Coach - Florida Gators
Greg Knox transformed Florida’s backfield and special teams units with his detail-oriented coaching style and longtime relationship with Gaytors head coach Dan Mullen. Knox
I don't know why you wouldn't. Busch and do OLB and ST and Knox can do RB and ST
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