1/10/2002 - Football
Buddy Green Named Defensive Coordinator
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ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Navy head football coach Paul Johnson announced Thursday that Buddy Green will join his staff as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach. Green comes to the Naval Academy from North Carolina State where he had been the defensive coordinator the last two seasons.
"Buddy will come in and do an outstanding job," said Johnson. "He is a very experienced coach and is a tremendous addition to the coaching staff."
"It is an honor to have the opportunity to come to the Naval Academy and coach the future leaders of our country," said Green. "I am excited about Coach Johnson asking me to join his staff as I have always had a tremendous amount of respect for him and the success he has had in his career. I am looking forward to getting started and building a successful program."
In just two short seasons at North Carolina State, Green's defense made impressive strides. After giving up 28 points per game in his first year, NC State allowed just 20.3 points per game this past fall, ranking second in the ACC and 25th in the country. The Pack finished fifth in the ACC in total defense (359.3 yards per game), third in pass defense (217.3) and third in the league in sacks (28). The Wolfpack qualified for bowl games both seasons he was the coordinator, playing in the Micronpc.com Bowl in 2000 and the Tangerine Bowl in 2001.
Green is a 1976 graduate of North Carolina State where he earned his B.A. in speech communication. Green was a two-sport athlete for the Wolfpack, playing football and baseball. He played on two ACC Championship squads in baseball and was a member of Lou Holtz's 1972 Peach Bowl squad.
Green, who had coached high school football in North Carolina for three seasons, got his first collegiate coaching job in 1979 as a graduate assistant at NC State and the Wolfpack went on to win the ACC Championship. Green moved on to coach at LSU in 1980.
Green, who will turn 49 on Jan. 23, got his first coordinator job in 1981, serving at the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Southern University from 1981-82. He took his first head coaching job at Northern Nash High School in North Carolina for one season where he was also the Director of Athletics.
Green got back into the college ranks at VMI as the secondary coach in 1983 and then moved on to Auburn where he helped lead the Tigers to the 1985 Cotton Bowl.
Green returned to his alma mater in Raleigh in 1986 where he was the secondary coach for eight years and was the defensive coordinator for four of those seasons (1990-93). While at NC State he helped lead the Pack to the 1986, 1988 and 1991 Peach Bowls, the 1989 Copper Bowl, the 1990 All-American Bowl, the 1992 Gator Bowl and the 1993 Hall of Fame Bowl. NC State finished 10th nationally in total defense in 1990 and 17th in 1991. NC State was 12th in the nation in scoring defense in 1992.
Green left Raleigh to become the head coach at Tennessee-Chattanooga where he coached for six seasons and was also the Director of Athletics for two years. In 1997, Green led his Chattanooga squad to a I-AA national ranking and its first winning record in six years. Green also helped develop one of the top wide receivers in the NFL, Terrell Owens of the San Francisco 49ers. Green returned to Raleigh in 2000 and has served as the defensive coordinator under Chuck Amato the past two years.
In Green's two stints at NC State, he has coached three All-American defensive backs (Jesse Campbell, Mike Reid and Sebastian Savage) and one or more of his players earned first-team All-ACC honors in six of his nine seasons with the Wolfpack, including Terrence Holt, a first-team All-ACC safety in 2001. As the secondary coach, Green saw nine of his player's go on to play in the NFL including Izell Jenkins of the Philadelphia Eagles and Dwayne Washington of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Green and his wife Sharon have two children, Todd (22) and Courtney (19).
