Brock Hays - Football Coach - Tulane University Athletics

Brock Hays

Title:
Running Backs
Email:
bhays1@tulane.edu
Phone:
314-2425

Brock Hays begins his first year at Tulane in 2024 as the running backs coach.

He arrived at Tulane after spending the last two season at Troy as their running backs coach.

In 2023, he helped Troy rank second in the Sun Belt in passing yards per completion (13.30), fifth in total offense (419.4), fifth in passing offense (266.0), sixth in scoring (29.6) and eighth in rushing offense (153.4). The program also saw Kimani Vidal drafted in the sixth round of the 2024 NFL Draft. Vidal also was named the Sun Belt’s Offensive Player of the Year, First Team All-Sun Belt and became Troy’s first AP All-American since 2000. The program also won their second straight Sun Belt Conference Championship with a 48-23 victory over Appalachian State and ended the campaign with an 11-3 mark.

In 2022, Hays and the Trojans finished the season ranked in a major poll for the first time in program history, checking in at No. 19 in the AP Top 25 and No. 20 in the USA Today/Coaches Poll. Additionally, Troy's appearance in the Coaches Poll and College Football Playoff Poll after its Sun Belt Championship Game victory were also firsts for the program. Troy hosted and appeared in the Sun Belt Championship Game for the first time, reached the 12-win mark at the FBS level for the first time.

Vidal took home All-Sun Belt Second Team distinction under Hays’ watch and became the 11th 1,000-yard rusher in program history. Additionally, Vidal tied the Troy single-game record with four rushing touchdowns against Arkansas State; it was tied for the fourth most in a game this season and the most by a player in the Group of Five. His four rushing touchdowns tied for the 10th most in a game in Sun Belt history and just one off the record.

Hays mentored a pair of All-Conference USA backs during his tenure at Louisiana Tech in Justin Henderson and Israel Tucker and oversaw a Bulldog rushing attack that finished with more than 1,500 yards in addition to 16 touchdowns in 2021.

Following the conclusion of the 2021 season, Hays was invited to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute. The AFCA 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute is a prestigious program aimed at identifying and developing premier, future leaders in the football coaching profession.

During his second season at Louisiana Tech, Hays coached Tucker to All-Conference USA honorable mention honors. In his first season with the Bulldogs, Henderson became the 13th running back in program history to rush for 1,000 yards and was named to the C-USA Second Team. His 15 rushing TDs led C-USA and tied for the seventh most in a single season in school history.

Hays was part of a 2019 Louisiana Tech team that went 10-3 overall, marking the first time a Bulldog squad reached double-digit victories since 1984. The 10th victory came in the 2019 Walk On's Independence Bowl as the Bulldogs shut out Miami, 14-0. It was the first shutout in Independence Bowl history and the only shutout of the 2019 bowl season.

Hays spent one season on the Southern Miss staff in 2018 as the tight ends coach after spending the previous two seasons as the running backs coach at Nicholls State.

During his time at Nicholls State, Hays helped lead the Colonels to the 2017 FCS Playoffs, just its fourth in program history and first since 2005. That same season, Nicholls ranked 19th nationally among FCS programs with an average of 200.3 rushing yards per game.

In 2016, Hays led a group that had totaled only 10 career carries heading into the season to an average of 162.9 yards rushing per game and 23 touchdowns. Under Hays' guidance, Nicholls' backs combined for five 100-yard games that season.

Hays joined the staff at Nicholls after coaching one season at Louisiana College as the defensive line coach, pro scouting liaison and academic liaison for the Wildcats.

Before coaching in the college ranks, Hays served as the assistant head coach, assistant defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Edna Karr High School here in his hometown of New Orleans from 2014-2015.

Hays also acted in a similar role at Edna Karr from 2010-2013 before taking the defensive coordinator position at Miller McCoy Academy in New Orleans for the 2013-2014 school year. Prior to his first stint at Edna Karr, Hays started his coaching career in 2004 as an offensive line coach at Helen Cox High School in Harvey, Louisiana, before switching over to the defensive side of the ball in 2007 when he accepted a job as the defensive line coach at New Iberia (La.) Senior High School.

In 2008, Hays returned to his college stomping ground for a stint as the defensive line coach and assistant defensive coordinator at Grambling High School.

Hays is a 2009 graduate of Grambling State, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in kinesiology. He and his wife, the former Lekeshia Williams, have two daughters, Lilah and Laken, and a son, Braylonn.