Randy Clements - Football Coach - Ole Miss Athletics

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Sep 13 (Sat)

6:00 or 6:45 PM

Randy Clements

Title:
Assistant Coach/Running Game Coordinator/Offensive Line
Year at Ole Miss:
Second
E-mail:
rebelfootball@olemiss.edu
Phone:
662-915-7890
Alma Mater:
Stephen F. Austin (1989)

Randy Clements was announced as an assistant coach/offensive line coach at Ole Miss on Dec. 16, 2019 after spending last season at Florida State.

A 30-year coaching veteran, Clements has spent 10 seasons working with Ole Miss offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby.

Prior to his one season at FSU, Clements was offensive line coach at Houston in 2018, his second stint with the Cougars. Operating behind Clements' offensive line, Houston averaged 43.9 points per game, ranking fifth in the nation, and 512.3 yards of total offense, the seventh-highest total in FBS. The Cougars were one of three teams to rank in the top-25 in passing and rushing offense, averaging 295.5 passing yards and 216.8 rushing yards per game to rank 16th and 24th, respectively.

The offensive line, led by All-AAC honorable mention guard Mason Denley, was a model of stability as Houston started the same combination in 12 of 13 games in 2018. That group helped quarterback D'Eriq King, who was a finalist for the Manning Award and semifinalist for the Maxwell Award and Davey O'Brien Award, put together one of the best seasons in the nation.

Prior to his time at Houston, Clements was the offensive line coach for Southeastern University in 2017. That year, the Fire won the Mid-South Conference Sun Division and advanced to the NAIA Football Championship Series behind an offense that scored 55.1 points per game. The points average led NAIA and was propped by the No. 2 rushing offense (330.4 yards per game) and the third-best total offense per game average of 557.4.

Clements served as offensive line coach at Baylor from 2008-16, holding the co-offensive coordinator title from 2008-11 and serving as run game coordinator from 2012-16. He produced the Big 12's Offensive Lineman of the Year four straight seasons from 2012-15.

Clements helped elevate the Baylor program to historic heights, including back-to-back Big 12 championships, behind a record-setting offense. The 2013 team, which won the school's first Big 12 title, led the nation with an average of 618.8 yards per game and 52.4 points per game while also ranking 13th with 259.7 rushing yards per game.

The 2014 team led the nation in points per game with 48.2 and total offense per game with 581.5 while winning the program's second straight conference title and breaking the NCAA bowl record with 601 passing yards in the Cotton Bowl against No. 7 Michigan State.

The 2015 squad led the NCAA with 48.1 points per game and 616.2 yards of total offense while also ranking second with 326.7 rushing yards per game. Baylor ended the season by rolling up an NCAA bowl-record 645 rushing yards and a Russell Athletic Bowl-record 756 yards of total offense to defeat No. 10 North Carolina.

While at Baylor, he coached linemen who earned a combined 13 All-Big 12 accolades and six All-America recognitions, including three unanimous selections.

Prior to Baylor, Clements spent five seasons at Houston. The Houston offense ranked as one of the nation’s most prolific, in large part due to Clements’ and Philip Montgomery’s contributions. In the 2007 regular-season, Houston ranked fourth nationally in total offense (513.17 ypg), 10th in rushing offense (239.92 ypg), 17th in scoring offense (36.33 ppg) and 27th in passing offense (273.25 ypg).

Cougar offensive lineman Jeff Akeroyd earned 2007 first-team All-Conference USA honors and Sebastian Vollmer earned honorable mention and was later selected in by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft.

In 2006, when the Cougars’ offense ranked sixth nationally and No. 1 in C-USA en route to the C-USA regular-season title and a Liberty Bowl appearances, three of Clements’ Houston linemen earned all-conference honors. Senior center Sterling Doty received first-team recognition, while Akeroyd was a second-team honoree and Dustin Dickinson earned third-team honors from the media and honorable mention from the coaches.

Houston’s 2005 offensive line helped pave the way for a 1,000-yard rusher in Ryan Gilbert and provided the protection for a 3,000-yard passer in Kevin Kolb as the Cougars reached the Fort Worth Bowl. Two Clements’ pupils, David Douglas and SirVincent Rogers, earned third-team C-USA honors.

In his first season at Houston, which culminated with the Cougars’ bid to the Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl, Clements’ tutored Houston center Rex Hadnot, a first-team All-Conference USA selection who went on to become a sixth-round draft pick of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins. Houston finished 12th nationally in both rushing (215.54 ypg) and total (458.3 ypg) offense, 16th in scoring offense (34.56 ppg).

Clements went to Houston after 12 highly successful seasons at Stephenville (Texas) High School, where he served as offensive coordinator, offensive line coach and head power lifting coach. As Stephenville’s offensive coordinator in a 10-2 2002 campaign, the school averaged 390 yards and 31 points per game. He coached the offensive line during Stephenville’s four Class 4A/Division II state championships (1993, 1994, 1998 and 1999). Clements developed 17 all-state athletes and 11 Division I signees on the offensive line.

As Stephenville’s head power lifting coach from 1991 through 2002, Clements led his squad to 12 consecutive regional titles and a 2001 state championship. The Wichita Falls, Texas, native earned all-conference honors as a center in 1985 at Tyler (Texas) Junior College, then transferred to Stephen F. Austin where he played on the Lumberjacks’ 1988 team which went 10-2 and reached the I-AA quarterfinals.

Clements began his coaching career at SFA as a student assistant (1986-87) and then later received his bachelor’s degree in education from SFA in 1989.

He and his wife, Polly, have two children, Jordan and Jayson.