Missouri Southern State University Athletics

Brandon Linney is in his first season as an assistant coach with the Missouri Southern Football team. Linney will be in charge of the running backs for the Green and Gold. 

Linney comes to Southern from East Central University in Oklahoma where he served for the past year as an offensive graduate assistant, coaching tight ends and special teams, while assisting with recruitment and training of those positions. He was responsible for managing and training the tight ends, position grading, academic grade checks, creating scouting cards, running position-based drills, developing and managing practice scripts, and leading the first-team scout team repetitions during team drills.

Prior to ECU, Linney coached for one season at Tyler Junior College in Texas. While there, he was responsible for coaching and training the running backs and assisting with special teams. He managed all running backs including, all aspects of recruiting, positional grading, academic grade checks, creating scouting cards and position-based drills, developing and managing practice scripts, and leading first-team scout team repetitions during team drills. He coached All Conference Honorable Mention Running Back: Roderick Hawkins. 

Prior to Tyler JC, Linney coached a season at Independence Community College where he was an assistant linebacker coach, recruiting manager and co-equipment manager. He managed all linebackers including, all aspects of recruiting, performing grade checks, creating scouting cards and position-based drills, developing and managing practice scripts, and leading daily practice drills.

Linney also coached at Rock Ridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia for two seasons where he was the head football coach for the freshman team. 

A native of Herndon, Va., Linney graduated from Old Dominion with a BS in criminal justice and a minor in sport management. He is persuing his masters degree in education and sports administration from ECU.