Kirk Doll - Football Coach - East Carolina University Athletics

Kirk Doll

Title:
Football Special Teams Coordinator/Running Backs Coach
Email:
dollk17@ecu.edu
Phone:
(252) 737-4570

Retained by Mike Houston to serve as a senior defensive analyst and provide leadership in a newly-created role of director of football alumni relations on April 1, 2019 …
Owns 40 years of coaching experience at college football’s highest level with eight programs (17 bowl games) and in the professional ranks with two organizations (two AFC playoff contests) …
In all, a total of 18 of his collegiate players have gone on to enjoy NFL careers …
Lengthy and accomplished coaching career was recognized by his hometown in the spring of 2015 by his induction into the Wichita (Kan.) Sports Hall of Fame & Museum …
An ECU letterman who played an integral role leading the Pirates to three bowl appearances in an overall five-year span as a coordinator and position coach (2012-15, 2018) …
As special teams coordinator in 2018, helped East Carolina to a No. 12 national rank in field goals made per game (1.58) while placekicker Jake Verity earned First-Team All-AAC honors after standing fourth at the FBS level in field goal percentage by converting 19-of-21 tries (90.5) …
Under Ruffin McNeill, directed the Pirates’ special teams unit and coached the running backs from 2012 to 2015 – a timeframe in which ECU advanced to the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, captured the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl and competed in a record-setting Birmingham Bowl …
Completed a special teams overhaul (that produced upper tier national statistical rankings despite working with a pair of first-year punters, a placekicker and deep snapper) and guided East Carolina’s first 2,000-yard rushing season since 2009 …
His punting unit averaged over 41.0 yards per boot in four consecutive seasons for the first time in school history, which included Worth Gregory’s No. 23 national rank with a 43.6 clip in 2014 …
Offensively, tutored back-to-back 1,000-rushing performances by Vintavious Cooper in 2012 and 2013, marking the first consecutive 1K seasons by a Pirate running back since 1993 and 1994 …
Spent the 2016 campaign as special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach at FIU …
Before returning to his alma mater, was San Jose State’s special teams coordinator and running backs coach in 2011 …
Began coaching career as a graduate assistant at Wichita State in 1975 before following with full-time appointments as OL coach at Tulsa (1980-84), OLB coach at Arizona State (1985-87), LB coach at Texas A&M (1988-93) and Notre Dame (assistant head coach) from 1994 to 2001 …
Was assistant head coach, directed linebackers and consulted on special teams at LSU in 2002 & 2003, the latter season resulting in a 13-1 record and BCS title under head coach Nick Saban and coordinators Jimbo Fisher and Will Muschamp ...
Worked at the NFL level from 2004 to 2006 and helped Denver to three-straight winning seasons and the 2005 AFC Championship Game; served as a Broncos' defensive assistant, safeties and special teams coach in 2004 before mentoring linebackers in 2005 & 2006 ...
Returned to Texas A&M (2008-09) as tight ends coach/special teams coach and had a one-year stint as special teams coach for the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League in 2010 …
Lettered as a defensive end at ECU in 1971 and 1972, helping Sonny Randle’s Pirates to a Southern Conference title as a senior ...
Earned a bachelor’s degree from East Carolina in 1973 before adding a second undergraduate degree from Wichita State in 1977 …
He and wife Kathy are the parents of three children - Kate, Kelsey and Kyle.