Football
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- cc069@bucknell.edu
Codey Cole joined the Bucknell football staff as defensive line coach in February 2024. Cole, a former member of the University of Kansas football team, arrives in Lewisburg after spending the 2023 season as defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Findlay.
During his time with the Oilers, Cole coached all four position on the defensive line, including the development of the team’s hybrid linebacker position. Under his direction, the Oilers produced four All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference players and posted the top defense in the conference with just 265.8 total yards per game and 81.2 rush yards per game allowed.
In 2022, Cole served a multitude of roles on the Alderson Broaddus University coaching staff, including defensive line and outside linebackers coach, recruiting coordinator and strength and conditioning assistant. Cole helped develop All-Mountain East honoree Garrion Corbin, who led the conference in tackles for loss in 2022. In 2021, Cole earned his first collegiate coaching position with Northern Illinois as a defensive assistant and weight room assistant. Working primarily with the team’s defensive ends, Cole helped coach the Huskies’ to a MAC Championship title and an appearance in the Tailgreeter Cure Bowl.
Cole got his coaching start at Lawrence High School in Kansas, where he spent the summer of 2021 working with the team’s defensive line and leading the program’s strength and conditioning.
Cole spent his last two playing seasons as a member of the Kansas Jayhawks’ defensive line and appeared in all 24 games over the 2018 and 2019 campaigns. He registered 23 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks for KU as a senior, starting one game against Coastal Carolina. Cole also served as a position group captain. Before Kansas, he spent 2017 at Butler Community College and 2016 at Tiffin University.
Cole, a native of Ypsilanti, Mich., earned his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts & sciences from Kansas in 2019.
