Brandon Lacy - Football Coach - University of Richmond Athletics

Brandon Lacy

Title:
Defensive Line Coach
Email:
blacy@richmond.edu
Phone:
289-8379

Brandon Lacy is in his first year as an assistant coach at the University of Richmond for head coach Russ Huesman and will work with the Spider defensive line. Lacy joins the Spiders with an impressive defensive resume, bringing 16 years of NCAA coaching experience to Richmond. During his career he has coached six different defensive lineman to All-America honors and had seven different players move on to careers in the National Football League.

Lacy spent the past 10 years as the assistant head coach, defensive run game coordinator, recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach at Southeastern Louisiana. During his time in Hammond, he was part of two Southland Conference championships teams in 2014 and 2013. As recruiting coordinator, he helped the Lions earn the No. 1 rated FCS recruiting class in the country in 2010.

Lacy led the Lions’ defense that finished 2014 ranked seventh in total defense in the country, eighth in scoring defense, 18^th in rushing defense and 28^th in total sacks. His 2013 team finished ranked No. 6 in the country in the final polls and was 24^th in the country in tackles for loss. The Lions’ defensive line produced 16 of the team’s league-leading 34 sacks on the year.

Prior to Southeastern Louisiana, he spent the 2008 season at Angelo State as the Defensive line coach and co-defensive coordinator.

Lacy spent two seasons as the defensive line graduate assistant at Rice. Working with the Rice defensive line, Lacy coached freshman All-America Cheta Ozougwu and All Conference USA selection Scott Solomon. He also was an defensive line intern with the Houston Texas under head coach Gary Kubiak in 2008.

Lacy has made stops at Ferrum College (2006), Tennessee-Martin (2005) and Appalachian State (2003-04). Lacy got his coaching start at FCS power Appalachian State in 2003, working under legendary coach Jerry Moore. During his two-year stay in Boone, Lacy helped the Mountaineers to consecutive winning seasons while helping to mold some of the top players in school history that included four eventual Buck Buchanan award nominees (KT Stovall, Cory Lynch, Jeremy Wiggins, Marques Murrell).

Lacy played collegiately for two years at Tennessee-Martin (1998-99) and two years at Kansas (2001-02). He was a two-time Academic All-Big 12 selection for the Jayhawks. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics at KU in 2003 and received graduate credit in Sport Psychology from Rice.

Lacy and his wife, Jessica are the parents of three sons, Brandon, Jr., Julius and Tre.