Chip Lindsey

Chip Lindsey (born September 9, 1974) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Troy University. Lindsey was previously the quarterbacks coach at Troy during the 2010 season. Lindsey has also previously served as the offensive coordinator at the University of Southern Mississippi (2014–2015), Arizona State University (2016) and Auburn University (2017–2018).

Chip Lindsey
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamTroy
ConferenceSun Belt
Record10–13
Biographical details
Born (1974-09-09) September 9, 1974
Madison, Alabama
Alma materAlabama (1997)
Playing career
1992–1993North Alabama
Position(s)Wide Receiver
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2005–2006Colbert Heights HS (AL)
2007Hoover High School (OC)
2008–2009Lassiter HS (GA)
2010Troy (QB)
2011–2012Spain Park HS (AL)
2013Auburn (OA)
2014–2015Southern Miss (OC)
2016Arizona State (OC/QB)
2017–2018Auburn (OC/QB)
2019–presentTroy
Head coaching record
Overall10–13 (college)
50–21 (high school)
Bowls0–0
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
Atlanta Coach of the Year (2009)
Cobb County TD Club Coach of the Year (2009)
AP Georgia Coach of the Year (2008)
Florence Times-Daily Coach of the Year (2006)

Early life and education

Lindsey played three sports and graduated from Bob Jones High School in Madison, Alabama in 1992 and played football at University of North Alabama under then-head coach Bobby Wallace, before transferring to the University of Alabama located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and earned his bachelor's degree in history and English in 1997.

Coaching career

High School coaching

Lindsey began coaching as an assistant in 1997 at Springville High School located in Springville, Alabama. After two seasons he moved to Sparkman High School in Harvest, Alabama. In 2000, he moved to Deshler High School in Tuscumbia, Alabama and served as an assistant under AHSAA Hall of Fame coach John Mothershed, until 2004 where he had two undefeated regular seasons. The following year in 2005, Lindsey became the Head Coach at Colbert Heights High School Tuscumbia, Alabama for two seasons with a combined record of 14–8. In 2007, he would become the offensive coordinator at Hoover High School under coach Rush Propst. Following one season at Hoover, Lindsey became the Head Coach at Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia until 2009. In 2011, after one season as Troy University quarterbacks coach, he would return to high school coaching at Spain Park High School in Hoover, Alabama where he would have a combined 15–9 record with two consecutive state playoff appearances, while Nick Mullens appeared as the 6A state player of the year.

Troy

Lindsey became quarterbacks coach under Larry Blakeney for the 2010 season where he coached Sun Belt Freshman of the Year Corey Robinson, who threw for 3,707 yards with 28 touchdowns and 15 interceptions while leading the No. 37 passing offense in the country.

Southern Miss

Under coach Todd Monken, Lindsey was named the offensive coordinator at The University of Southern Mississippi in 2014. In 2015, the Golden Eagles finished the season 9–5, 7–1 in C-USA play to be champions of the West Division. The 2015 team also finished 12th in the nation in total offense. They represented the West Division in the Conference USA Football Championship Game where they lost to Western Kentucky University. They were invited to the Heart of Dallas Bowl, where they were defeated by Washington.

Arizona State

In December 2015, it was announced that Chip Lindsey would be named the new offensive coordinator at Arizona State University for the 2016 season.[1] Arizona State would finish the 2016 season at 5-7, while averaging over 33 points per game and 11th in the nation in red zone offense.

Auburn

Lindsey was an offensive analyst on Auburn's staff in 2013, the season the Tigers won the SEC title and fell 13 seconds short of a national championship. On January 21, 2017, Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn announced that Lindsey would serve as the new offensive coordinator, producing $800,000 in compensation. During the 2017 season, the Tigers won an SEC West Division Championship after wins over top-ranked Georgia and Alabama. For the 2018 season, Auburn finished 8–5. He left Auburn after 2018 to be the offensive coordinator at Kansas.[2]

Troy

On January 11, 2019, Lindsey was named the new head football coach at Troy University.[3]

Head coaching record

College
Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
Troy Trojans (Sun Belt Conference) (2019–present)
2019 Troy 5–73–54th (East)
2020 Troy 5–63–45th (East)
Troy: 10–136–9
Total:10–13

References
  1. "ASU hires Chip Lindsey from Southern Miss as offensive coordinator". Fox Sports. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  2. "Official: Offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey leaves Auburn for same job at Kansas". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  3. "Troy hires Kansas coordinator Chip Lindsey as head coach". USA Today. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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