{{Short description|American football player and coach}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Randy Pippin | image = | alt = | caption = | current_title = Senior analyst | current_team = Jacksonville State | current_conference = C-USA | current_record = | contract = | birth_date = | birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = | player_years1 = 1981–1982 | player_team1 = Cisco | player_years2 = 1983–1984 | player_team2 = Tennessee Tech | player_positions = Running back | coach_years1 = 1985–1987 | coach_team1 = Tennessee Tech (GA) | coach_years2 = 1988–1989 | coach_team2 = Middle Tennessee (DE) | coach_years3 = 1990–1992 | coach_team3 = Trinity Valley (DC) | coach_years4 = 1993–1995 | coach_team4 = Trinity Valley | coach_years5 = 1996–1997 | coach_team5 = Tennessee Tech (OC) | coach_years6 = 1998–2000 | coach_team6 = Middle Georgia | coach_years7 = 2001–2003 | coach_team7 = West Alabama | coach_years8 = 2005–2007 | coach_team8 = Northwest Mississippi | coach_years9 = 2008–2010 | coach_team9 = Classical Academy (CO) (interim HC) | coach_years10 = 2011–2012 | coach_team10 = East Texas Baptist (DC) | coach_years11 = 2012–2014 | coach_team11 = East Central (DC) | coach_years12 = 2015–2022 | coach_team12 = UAB (DPR) | coach_years13 = 2023–present | coach_team13 = Jacksonville State (sr. analyst) | overall_record = 8–25 (college)<br>61–31–2 (junior college) | bowl_record = 4–0 (junior college) | tournament_record = | championships = 1 NJCAA National (1994)<br>1 TJCFC (1994) | coaching_records = }} '''Randy Pippin''' is an American college football coach and former player. He is a senior analyst at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, a position he has held since 2023. Pippin has served as head football coach at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas, from 1993 to 1995, Middle Georgia College, from 1998 to 2000, the University of West Alabama, from 2001 to 2003, and Northwest Mississippi Community College, from 2005 to 2007. He led his 1994 Trinity Valley valley team to an NJCAA National Football Championship.
==Early life and playing career== Pippin grew up in Texas and attended Cisco College before transferring to Tennessee Technological University, where he played college football as a running back from 1983 to 1984.
==Coaching career== Pippin started his coaching career as a graduate assistant on the defense at Tennessee Technological University, from 1985 to 1987.<ref name="PipBio">{{cite web |url=http://www.etbu.edu/Current_Athletic_News/Football/fb_pippin_randy.htm |title=Football Coaching Staff: Randy Pippin |publisher=East Texas Baptist University |accessdate=November 25, 2011}}</ref> From Tech, Pippin served as linebackers coach at Middle Tennessee State University, from 1988 to 1989, and as defensive coordinator at Trinity Valley Community College, from 1990 to 1992.<ref name="PipBio"/>
From 1993 to 1995, Pippin had his first head coaching job at Trinity Valley after being promoted from defensive coordinator. In 1994, he was named the NJCAA National Coach of the Year and led the Cardinals to the NJCAA National Football Championship, defeating Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in the Tyler Shrine Bowl.<ref name="NC1">{{cite news |title=Trinity Valley aims for junior college title |first=Chris |last=Perkins |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |date=December 3, 1994 |page=7B}}</ref><ref name="NC2">{{cite news |title=Junior colleges likely will benefit from NCAA ruling |first=Al |last=Carter |author2=Bill Nichols |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |date=January 10, 1995 |page=9B}}</ref>
After serving as offensive coordinator at Tennessee Tech for two seasons, Pippin took the position of head coach and athletic director at Middle Georgia College.<ref name="PipBio"/> At Middle Georgia, he led the Warriors to an overall record 24–10 and a victory in the 1998 Mineral Water Bowl.<ref name="GA1">{{cite news |title=Middle Georgia 41, Northwest Miss. 3 |agency=The Associated Press State & Local Wire |date=December 5, 1998}}</ref> Pippin was also noted for having Tonya Butler sign a national letter of intent to attend Middle Georgia on a football scholarship for a placekicker.<ref name="Tonya">{{cite news |title=Middle Georgia signs Butler |first=Michael |last=Carvell |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=February 4, 1999 |page=6D}}</ref> At the time of her signing, Butler was the first female to earn a football scholarship in Georgia.<ref name="Tonya"/>
Following the 2000 season, Pippin resigned from Middle Georgia and took the head coaching position at the University of West Alabama.<ref name="WestAL">{{cite news |title=UWA hires 'proven winner' |first=Shane |last=Youngblood |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |date=December 13, 2000 |page=C1 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IccnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sqcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3416%2C2697065 |accessdate=November 25, 2011}}</ref> At West Alabama, he led Tigers to an overall record of 8–25 during his three-year tenure, but won give games in his second season including victories over Delta State, West Georgia and North Alabama, a feat that has not been done before in program history. On September 13, 2003, when Tonya Butler, who Pipping has previously signed at Middle Georgia, became the first female in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history to kick a field goal in a regulation game.<ref name="WestAL2">{{cite news |title=UWA's Tonya Butler aims for NCAA history |first=Andrew |last=Carroll |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |date=September 14, 2000 |page=C1 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IyAfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tKcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2049%2C2812065 |accessdate=November 25, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Tonya2">{{cite news |title=Pioneer still gets her football kicks |first=Karen |last=Rosen |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=October 17, 2003 |page=8D}}</ref> The goal was scored on a 27-yard attempt against Stillman with 9:41 remaining in the first quarter.<ref name="WestAL2"/>
After leaving West Alabama, Pippin spent a year as a dean, athletic director, and head football at Cottage Hill Christian Academy in Mobile, Alabama, before he was hired as head football coach at Northwest Mississippi Community College. During his three-year stint with the Rangers, his teams participated in postseason championship games his second and third years. His second-year team won the North Division with a perfect 6–0 record. From there he served as head coach at The Classical Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, while directing the Glazier Football Coaching Clinics nationally. He then became the defensive coordinator at East Texas Baptist University for the 2011 and 2012 seasons while taking on the Texas and Oklahoma Nike Coach of the Year Clinics.<ref name="PipBio"/> He then moved to East Central University, where as defensive coordinator he orchestrated the best rushing defense in school history. East Central participated in a postseason bowl game for the first time in more than 20 years. Pippin then joined Bill Clark at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) serving in various coaching, recruiting, and administrative roles as the UAB Blazers football program was brought back from a hiatus following the 2014 season.
Pippin has authored two books ''C.H.A.O.S.'', a defensive football instructional manual, and ''Deep in the Heart'', about the history of football in Southern United States and the return of the UAB football program after a hiatus in 2015 and 2016.
==Head coaching record== ===College=== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = West Alabama Tigers | conf = Gulf South Conference | startyear = 2001 | endyear = 2003 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 2001 | name = West Alabama | overall = 1–10 | conference = 0–9 | confstanding = 12th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 2002 | name = West Alabama | overall = 5–6 | conference = 3–6 | confstanding = T–8th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 2003 | name = West Alabama | overall = 2–9 | conference = 1–8 | confstanding = 12th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = West Alabama | overall = 8–25 | confrecord = 4–23 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 8–25 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = | legend = no }}
===Junior college=== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no}} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Trinity Valley Cardinals | conf = Texas Junior College Football Conference | startyear = 1993 | endyear = 1995 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1993 | name = Trinity Valley | overall = 8–1–2 | conference = 4–1–1 | confstanding = 3rd | bowlname = Real Dairy Bowl | bowloutcome = W | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = national | year = 1994 | name = Trinity Valley | overall = 12–0 | conference = 6–0 | confstanding = 1st | bowlname = Tyler Shrine Bowl | bowloutcome = W | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1995 | name = Trinity Valley | overall = 5–5 | conference = 3–3 | confstanding = T–3rd | bowlname = TJCFC semifinal | bowloutcome = L | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Trinity Valley | overall = 24–7–2 | confrecord = 13–4–1 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Middle Georgia Warriors | conf = Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association | startyear = 1998 | endyear = 2000 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1998 | name = Middle Georgia | overall = 9–3 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = Mineral Water Bowl | bowloutcome = W | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1999 | name = Middle Georgia | overall = 5–6 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 2000 | name = Middle Georgia | overall = 10–1 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = Golden Isles Bowl | bowloutcome = W | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Middle Georgia | overall = 24–10 | confrecord = }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Northwest Mississippi Rangers | conf = Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges | startyear = 2005 | endyear = 2007 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 2005 | name = Northwest Mississippi | overall = 1–6 | conference = 1–5 | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 2006 | name = Northwest Mississippi | overall = 6–4 | conference = 6–0 | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 2007 | name = Northwest Mississippi | overall = 6–4 | conference = 5–1 | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Northwest Mississippi | overall = 13–14 | confrecord = 12–6 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 61–31–2 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = }}
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==External links== * [https://jaxstatesports.com/staff-directory/randy-pippin/391 Jacksonville State profile]
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