Doug Malone begins his third year with the Blue Hose after a one-year stint as the offensive coordinator at Western Carolina as the quarterback coach.
A year ago, Malone guided the offense to an average of 351.2 yards per game. The squad averaged 236 yards in the air per game and through a dual quarterback system, accounted for 16 touchdown passes. The rushing attack was led by the tandem of junior Trandon Dendy and rookie Lance Byrd. As Dendy led the team in rushing in each of the first eight games of the year, Byrd established a school-record 274-yard performance on the ground in his first career start, coming against Charleston Southern.
Leading the receiving corps was second-team all-conference selection Patrick McKoy, who hauled in a team-high 47 receptions for 615 yards and four touchdowns.
In 2008, his first year at Presbyterian College, Malone helped guide the team to some solid numbers. His quarterbacks accounted for 3,191 passing yards to go along with 17 touchdowns. Their 265.9 passing yard average was superior to the opposition. A balanced offense, the rushing attack scored 18 times.
Prior to his one-year stint at WCU, Malone served for eight years at Tennessee Tech as an offensive coordinator, interim head coach and as an assistant athletic director. Malone was also the head coach at PC’s former South Atlantic Conference rival Wingate.
Under the tutelage of Malone, the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles posted record-setting seasons in both 2001 and 2002, with the latter becoming only the second offensive unit in Tennessee Tech history to post both a 2,000-yard passer and a 1,000-yard rusher. Two years into his tenure as the offensive coordinator, TTU improved upon the 3,000-yard, 20-point per game average during his first season by racking up nearly 4,000 yards of offense and nearly 30 points per game in 2000.
As the acting head coach at Tennessee Tech in 2006, the Golden Eagles went 4-7 overall and 4-4 in the Ohio Valley Conference, including rallying from down 23 in the third quarter to upend Southeast Missouri State in the season finale on the road. TTU quarterback Lee Sweeney threw for over 2,000 yards in 2006 and a pair of running backs rushed for over 500 yards each.
Malone began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) where he worked extensively with the offensive line. He then became an assistant coach at California State University in Northridge where he switched sides of the ball, coaching the linebackers. He also coordinated the kicking game for three years.
Malone made the move back east to serve as the offensive coordinator at Wingate University for eight seasons before taking over the head coaching duties for five seasons.
In his first year as the head coach, Wingate went 3-7 with three losses by a combined total of four points. The following year, his team upset NCAA Division II powerhouse Carson-Newman. Malone and the Bulldogs set a then school-record for wins in a single-season, posting an 8-3 mark in 1997. In his 41 games at Wingate, the Bulldogs were shut out just once.
In his capacity as the assistant athletics director for corporate sales/marketing at Tennessee Tech, he oversaw the TTU athletics department corporate sales and marketing programs, which included arena and stadium signage, advertising, game sponsorships and additional sales opportunities.
Malone holds a bachelor’s degree in physical education and health from Carson-Newman College and a master’s degree in sports sciences from the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Ala.
Malone is very active in coaching organizations and has been published in the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Summer Manual for a paper on “The Kicking Game.”
