Vincent Dancy

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Vincent Dancy
Current position
TitleOutside linebackers coach
Team Colorado
Conference Pac-12
Biographical details
Alma materJackson State
Playing career
2002–2005 Jackson State
Position(s) Linebacker, safety
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2009–2011 Jackson State (GA)
2012–2013 Jackson State (S)
2014 Paine (DC)
2015–2017 Mississippi Valley State (DC)
2018–2022 Mississippi Valley State
2023 Colorado (DA)
2024–present Colorado (OLB)
Head coaching record
Overall10–38

Vincent Dancy is an American football coach, currently a defensive outside LB coach at the University of Colorado. He is the former head football coach at Mississippi Valley State University, a position he has held from 2018 until 2022. He was a SS and outside LB for Jackson State University from 2002-2005. He has an overall coaching record of 55-104 from 2009-2023

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Early years

Dancy played football at Jackson State, where he was an All-Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) performer. [1]

Coaching career

Dancy was the defensive coordinator for one season at Paine College before joining Rick Comegy's staff at Mississippi Valley State University in 2015. [2]

Dancy was named the interim head coach at Mississippi Valley State on November 20, 2017, when the university announced they would not renew Comegy's contract. [3] [4] On January 2, 2018, the "interim" tag was removed from Dancy's name, and he was named the head football coach at Mississippi Valley State. [5]

Head coaching record

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs
Mississippi Valley State (Southwestern Athletic Conference)(2018–2022)
2018 Mississippi Valley State 1–101–65th (East)
2019 Mississippi Valley State 2–91–65th (East)
2020 Mississippi Valley State 1–31–34th (East)
2021 Mississippi Valley State 4–73–5T–4th (East)
2022 Mississippi Valley State 2–92–6T–5th (East)
Mississippi Valley State:10–388–26
Total:10–38

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