Marshall University Athletics
Football
Adkins, Greg
Greg Adkins
- Title:
- Offensive Line
- Email:
- adkinsgr@marshall.edu
- Phone:
- 2406
In 2020, Adkins will enter his third season as Marshall’s offensive line coach.
In 2019, he mentored first-team All-Conference USA center Levi Brown and second-teamer Cain Madden.
During the 2018 campaign, he mentored first-team All-Conference USA center Levi Brown and captained a unit that protected redshirt freshman quarterback Isaiah Green en route to nine wins and a seventh-consecutive bowl victory.
Adkins, a four-year offensive lineman and 1990 Thundering Herd graduate, previously coached at Marshall for five seasons (defensive line, tight ends, offensive line) from 1991-95 and helped guide the program to the 1992 I-AA national championship and three more appearances in the I-AA national title game (1991, ‘93, ‘95).
The Cross Lanes native and Nitro High School graduate returns to Huntington from Charlotte, where he was the 49ers’ offensive line coach, run game coordinator and interim offensive coordinator.
Prior to that, he coached offensive lines at Oklahoma State (2015-17), Syracuse (2009-12), Tennessee (2003-08), Troy (2001-02) and Georgia (1996-200). He also handled recruiting duties at Syracuse, Tennessee and Troy. At Georgia, he also coached tight ends and the defensive line and mentored Tennessee’s tight ends during his time there as well.
Adkins, who has over 25 years of coaching experience and has participated in 12 bowl games, had a stop in the National Football League as well, serving as the Buffalo Bills’ tight ends coach in 2013-14.
In 2019, he mentored first-team All-Conference USA center Levi Brown and second-teamer Cain Madden.
During the 2018 campaign, he mentored first-team All-Conference USA center Levi Brown and captained a unit that protected redshirt freshman quarterback Isaiah Green en route to nine wins and a seventh-consecutive bowl victory.
Adkins, a four-year offensive lineman and 1990 Thundering Herd graduate, previously coached at Marshall for five seasons (defensive line, tight ends, offensive line) from 1991-95 and helped guide the program to the 1992 I-AA national championship and three more appearances in the I-AA national title game (1991, ‘93, ‘95).
The Cross Lanes native and Nitro High School graduate returns to Huntington from Charlotte, where he was the 49ers’ offensive line coach, run game coordinator and interim offensive coordinator.
Prior to that, he coached offensive lines at Oklahoma State (2015-17), Syracuse (2009-12), Tennessee (2003-08), Troy (2001-02) and Georgia (1996-200). He also handled recruiting duties at Syracuse, Tennessee and Troy. At Georgia, he also coached tight ends and the defensive line and mentored Tennessee’s tight ends during his time there as well.
Adkins, who has over 25 years of coaching experience and has participated in 12 bowl games, had a stop in the National Football League as well, serving as the Buffalo Bills’ tight ends coach in 2013-14.