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Mickey Joseph
Mickey Joseph went 28–25 as a head coach, 2011–2025, at Langston, Nebraska and Grambling State. Share
Four seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 2011–12 at Langston; 2024–25 at Grambling State. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 28–25 career
- Seasons
- 5
- Schools
- 3
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Mar 5, 1968
- Alma mater
- Nebraska
- Best season
- 2022 4–8
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Langston * | 7–3 | T–1st | 23 | ||
| 2012 | Langston * | 6–4 | ||||
| 2013–21: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2022 | Nebraska interim, remainder of season | 3–6 | 6th (West) | |||
| 2023: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2024 | Grambling State * | 5–7 | T–5th (West) | |||
| 2025 | Grambling State * | 7–5 | T–3rd (West) | |||
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 4 | 1–3 | 25% |
| Conference games | 8 | 3–5 | 38% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 5 | 2–3 | 40% |
| At home | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
| On the road | 4 | 2–2 | 50% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 8 | 2–6 | 25% |
His own nine games on file, 2022, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Indianaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Rutgersseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Iowaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Michiganseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Minnesotaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Oklahomaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Wisconsinseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Illinoisseries | 1 | 0–1 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on LSU’s 2019 staff (wide receivers) · the staff · source
The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995–96 | Omaha North HS (NE) high school | Quarterbacks and wide receivers coach | |
| 1997 | Wayne State (NE) | Running game coordinator | |
| 1998 | Archbishop Shaw HS (LA) high school | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 1999 | Tulane | Graduate assistant | |
| 2000 | Alabama State | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2001–03 | Nicholls State | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 2004–05 | Central Oklahoma | Running backs coach | |
| 2005–08 | Desire Street Academy (LA) high school | Head coach | |
| 2008–11 | Langston | Assistant head coach | |
| 2011–12 | Langston | Head coach | |
| 2013 | Alcorn State | Assistant head coach and special teams and wide receivers coach | |
| 2014–15 | Grambling State | Special teams and wide receivers coach | |
| 2016 | Louisiana Tech | Running backs coach | |
| 2017–19 | LSU | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2020–21 | LSU | Assistant head coach and wide receivers coach | |
| 2022 | Nebraska | Assistant head coach, wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator | |
| 2022 | Nebraska | Interim head coach | |
| 2024–present | Grambling State | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Chris ScelfoTulane
- L. C. ColeAlabama State
- Daryl DayeNicholls
- Chuck LangstonCentral Oklahoma
- Greg JohnsonLangston
- Jay HopsonAlcorn State
- Broderick FobbsGrambling
- Skip HoltzLouisiana Tech
- Ed OrgeronLSU
- Brad DavisLSU
- Scott FrostNebraska
Assistants who became head coaches
- Mark WhippleMassachusetts, New Haven, Brown
Worked under (11)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Scelfo | Tulane | 1999 | Graduate assistant | |
| L. C. Cole | Alabama State | 2000 | Wide receivers coach | |
| Daryl Daye | Nicholls | 2001–03 | Quarterbacks coach | |
| Chuck Langston | Central Oklahoma | 2004–05 | Running backs coach | |
| Greg Johnson | Langston | 2008–10 | Assistant head coach | |
| Jay Hopson | Alcorn State | 2013 | Assistant head coach and special teams and wide receivers coach | |
| Broderick Fobbs | Grambling | 2014–15 | Special teams and wide receivers coach | |
| Skip Holtz | Louisiana Tech | 2016 | Running backs coach | |
| Ed Orgeron | LSU | 2017–21 | 2017–19: wide receivers coach; 2020–21: assistant head coach and wide receivers coach | |
| Brad Davis | LSU | 2021 | Assistant head coach and wide receivers coach | |
| Scott Frost | Nebraska | 2022 | Assistant head coach, wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator |
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Whipple | Nebraska, 2022: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Massachusetts, New Haven, Brown |
Other assistants under him (5)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Busch | Nebraska, 2022: special teams coach; 2022: interim defensive coordinator and special teams coach | |
| Erik Chinander | Nebraska, 2022: defensive coordinator | |
| Mike Dawson | Nebraska, 2022: defensive line coach and EDGE | |
| Steve Cooper | Nebraska, 2022: sr.OA | |
| Jason Rollins | Grambling, 2024–26: defensive coordinator |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.