Joe Cox (American football)

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Joe Cox
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Current position
TitleTight ends coach
Team Ole Miss
Conference SEC
Biographical details
Born (1986-11-27) November 27, 1986 (age 37)
Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Alma mater Georgia
Playing career
2005–2009 Georgia
Position(s)Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2014 Mallard Creek HS (OC)
2015 Colorado State (GA)
2016–2019 Colorado State (TE)
2020 South Carolina (WR)
2021 Charlotte (TE)
2022–2023 Alabama (TE)
2024–present Ole Miss (co-OC/TE)

Joseph Howell Cox (born November 27, 1986) is an American football coach and former college football quarterback. He played college football for four seasons at the University of Georgia, and was the team's starting quarterback for the 2009 season. [1]

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Early years

Cox started at Independence High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was named to the 2004 "Parade Magazine" All-America Team and "Super Prep" All-Mid Atlantic Team. He was the North Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year. [2] He was on the Associated Press first-team All-State team and was twice a Charlotte Observer Offensive Player of the Year. He also played in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas and impressed scouts by going 31–0 as a starting quarterback. He was twice a team captain and was rated the number 7 quarterback in the country by Rivals and Tom Lemming of ESPN. He set a North Carolina record with 66 touchdown passes while taking his team to its fifth consecutive state championship his senior year. He was named the MVP of the state title game twice. As a junior, he threw for nearly 4,000 yards and over 40 touchdowns. As a senior, he completed 240 out of 363 passes for over 4,500 yards and only five interceptions. [3]

College career

2005–2008

Cox was redshirted in his freshman year in 2005. During the first four years of his career at the University of Georgia, Cox had scattered playing time and completed 33 out of 58 pass attempts for 432 yards with five touchdowns and one interception. [3] As a redshirt freshman in 2006, with Georgia trailing Colorado 0–13 at home late in the third quarter, Cox was put in the game to relieve the ineffective starter Matthew Stafford. Cox threw for 153 yards and two touchdowns late in the game to lead Georgia to a comeback win, 14–13. [4] Cox started one more game in the season, in a 14–9 victory over Ole Miss, but eventually lost his starting place to the highly-touted Stafford, who ended up being the first overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft.

2009

Cox was the starting quarterback for Georgia during the 2009 season. While Cox threw for over 1,200 yards and 11 touchdowns and had a 146.4 quarterback rating in his first four games of the 2009 season, he did not perform as well in the next few games. [5] Georgia finished the season 8–5 with Cox as the starter. In Georgia's 52–41 win over Arkansas in Fayetteville, he threw for a career-high 375 yards and matched a team record with five touchdown passes. Against the #1-ranked Florida Gators, he completed 11 of 20 pass attempts for two touchdowns, which was as many as the Gators had allowed all season, but also threw three interceptions in the 17–41 loss. In his final game at Sanford Stadium, the Bulldogs had a 14-point half-time lead, but Cox threw two interceptions in the fourth quarter. Along with a red-zone fumble (as Georgia was attempting to tie the game), these interceptions sealed a loss against Kentucky, Georgia's first home loss to the Wildcats since 1977. However, Cox was not asked to do much in the final regular season game against the #7-ranked Georgia Tech. With Bulldog tailbacks Caleb King and Washaun Ealey combining for 349 rushing yards, he managed the game well, completing 8 of 14 passes for just 76 yards and a touchdown in Georgia's 30–24 victory.

Coaching career

In June 2013, Cox joined the coaching staff at Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, [6] as the quarterbacks' position coach. On December 14, 2013, the Mallard Creek team won its first state championship. In 2014, he became the offensive co-ordinator for Mallard Creek and led the Maverick offense to its second state title on December 13, 2014.

On February 3, 2015, it was announced that Cox had left Mallard Creek High School to become a graduate assistant for the Colorado State Rams. [7] In January 2016, he was promoted to tight ends coach for Colorado State.

On January 10, 2020, it was announced that Cox had joined the coaching staff of the South Carolina Gamecocks football as tight ends coach. [8]

Following the departure of the former offensive co-ordinator/wide receivers coach Bryan McClendon to Oregon, Will Muschamp moved Bobby Bentley back to tight ends and Cox was moved to wide receivers.

In December 2020, the new South Carolina head coach, Shane Beamer, announced he had hired a new team of coaches, and that Cox would not be retained. [9] He was replaced by the former Arkansas wide receivers coach, Justin Stepp. [10]

On February 15, 2021, Cox was named the Charlotte 49ers' tight ends coach. [11]

On February 4, 2022, Cox was named tight ends coach for the University of Alabama.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Player Stats - Joe Cox - College Football". New Jersey On-Line . Advance Publications. Archived from the original on August 28, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ Kevin Kelley (January 8, 2009). "Joe Cox the New No. 1 Quarterback at Georgia". SicEmDawg. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
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  4. ↑ "Colorado Buffaloes vs. Georgia Bulldogs - Box Score - September 23, 2006". ESPN. September 23, 2006. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Joe Cox #14". Rivals. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Assistant at Mallard Creek - High School Football". Charlotte Observer. August 15, 2013. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2013– via US News.
  7. ↑ "Former Georgia QB Joe Cox to join Mike Bobo at Colorado State". High School Football. CBS Sports. Retrieved February 4, 2015.[ dead link ]
  8. ↑ "Muschamp Shuffles Coaching Staff". South Carolina Gamecocks. January 9, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
  9. ↑ Timmers, Kody (December 28, 2020). "Beamer announces seven members of coaching staff". SB Nation. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  10. ↑ Chavanelle, Nikki (January 3, 2021). "Confirmed: Arkansas WR coach Justin Stepp hired by South Carolina". HawgBeat. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Healy Welcomes Joe Cox Back to Charlotte Area as Tight Ends Coach". UNC Charlotte Athletics. February 15, 2021. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
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