A - Backs - FB Administration-Travel JEFF FAGAN

16th Year at Bethune-Cookman • Bethune-Cookman College, 1981

Coach Wyatt On Coach Fagan: "Coach Fagan has a wealth of talents. He was a student-athlete here and I coached him when he was a player and I tried to make it tough on him then. I hired him from Mainland High School when I got the head coaching position with the Wildcats. He has outstanding coaching abilities and is very valuable in many areas. He is a great organizer and handles all of our travel plans and we don't miss a beat when traveling with the team on the road. He handles our football operations and recruiting and he is a main stay with our football program."

This will be Jeff Fagan's 16th illustrious season as an assistant coach and football operations leader at Bethune-Cookman University. Overall, this is his 21st season as a football coach. Fagan is no stranger to the offensive side of the ball as he was a former All-State player in high school, and stellar athlete at Bethune-Cookman College. Fagan's coaching career, however, began like so many on the high school circuit. From 1988-89, Jeff Fagan was an assistant coach with Seabreeze High School in the Daytona Beach area. He later worked his way over to local powerhouse Mainland High School where he served under head coach Doug Stanley and the Buccaneers program from 1990-94. While at Seabreeze and Mainland, Fagan was instrumental in helping the two dominant local programs to four (4) District titles, two (2) Regional titles and one (1) Central Florida Bowl Championship crown. It may well be the knowledge of the offense as a former offensive lineman that keeps Fagan's ability to coach THE OL. at or near the top of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) year-in and year-out. His knowledge of the basic fundamentals, as well as his enthusiastic approach to the game compliments his commitment to head coach Alvin B. Wyatt, Sr. and the Wildcats program. As a 1981 graduate of Bethune-Cookman College, Fagan believes in the one thing that every successful coach lives with every second of the game, "Calling the right play and making the right block is all that is needed for a drive to be successful." He has instilled in every one of his former B-Backs that a total commitment is needed to produce excellence on and off the field. While at B-CC in his playing days, Fagan saw his action as an offensive lineman for the Wildcats from 1978-79. He later earned a degree in Physical Education. Prior to that, Fagan was a standout offensive lineman at Killian High School in his hometown of Miami, Florida. Fagan arrived at Bethune-Cookman in the spring of 1994 as a football administrator, and he stills holds the day-to-day duties of the office in his current tenure at the school. Fagan's responsibilities not only include coaching the offensive line, but assisting with scheduling and arranging travel and practices while on the road. Currently he is single, and has three children, Jahmal (24), Emerson (21) and Cyrus (11). He lives in Daytona Beach.