COACHING STAFF

Head Coach Greg Goff

Goff comes to Ruston after spending seven years as the head baseball coach at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., where he amassed an impressive record of 224-174 in his time at the helm of the Camels program, including recording three straight 40-win seasons. This past season, Goff and his team captured the Big South Tournament Championship, which led to Campbell's first NCAA Regional appearance in 24 years. During last week's Columbia Regional, Goff and his team defeated Conference USA's Old Dominion for the program's first ever win in an NCAA Regional.

The 21-year coaching veteran recently led Campbell to its third straight 40-win season, as the Camels joined LSU, Florida State, Oregon, Oregon State, Louisville, South Carolina and Rice as the only NCAA Division I baseball programs with at least 40 victories in each of the last three years.

In the last three years, Goff led the Camels to their only 40-win seasons in program history, which gives the Jackson, Tenn., native 131 wins in just three years.

n 2013 alone, Campbell was crowned the Big South regular season champions, while Goff earned Coach of the Year honors for the league after winning a school record 49 games. His Campbell team was the only squad in Division I baseball ranked in the Top 10 nationally in both team batting average and team earned run average. The Camels also spent the majority of the 2013 season ranked nationally, which led to Goff being named one of Perfect Game's 10 rising college coaches heading into the 2014 campaign.

Prior to his seven years at Campbell, Goff spent four seasons as the head coach at the University of Montevallo, a Division II program in Alabama, where he led his squad to a 152-84 (.644) mark. In his final two seasons with the Falcons, Goff's teams set the school record for wins in back-to-back seasons, with 43 victories in 2006 and 47 in 2007. He led Montevallo to its first ever NCAA Division II College World Series in 2006, where his team finished third and claimed the Southeast Region Championship.

Goff was named the ABCA South Central Region Coach of the Year following the 2006 season, as his Montevallo squad was ranked third in the final Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division II poll after reaching the College World Series for the first time in the program's history. That same season, he was also awarded Coach of the Year for all divisions by the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association.

Before spending 11 years on the head coaching circuit, Goff led the nationally ranked Kentucky Wildcats as the pitching coach for four seasons from 1999 to 2003. He helped guide Kentucky to 38 victories in 2000, which marked a school record for wins in a season at the time.

In all, Goff spent a total of 10 years as an assistant coach, with two of those seasons spent as both the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for Southeast Missouri State from 1997 to 1999. The Bulldogs' skipper began his collegiate coaching career in 1993 at his alma mater, Delta State, as a graduate assistant for DSU's baseball team. Goff was promoted to full-time pitching coach for the Delta State Statesmen heading into the 1997 season. In his time as an assistant, Goff coached 23 professional draft picks, eight All-Americans, 25 all-conference performers and had two players awarded the Dick Howser National Pitcher of the Year.

Assistant Coach Rick McCarty

McCarty comes to LA Tech after spending the last four years in charge of pitching at Campbell during Goff's tenure as head coach. The 12-year coaching veteran was named the assistant head coach prior to the 2014 season as he helped lead Campbell to new heights as a baseball program, including guiding the Fighting Camels to three straight 40-win seasons (41 in 2012; 49 in 2013; 41 in 2014) and their first NCAA Regional appearance in 24 years this past season.

A native of Campbellsville, Ky., McCarty helped lead Campbell to the 2014 Big South Conference Tournament championship, while his team also won the Big South regular season championship in 2013 for the first time since the 1986 season. Over the course of the 2013 season, Campbell not only broke the school record for wins in a season with 49 victories, but the Camel pitchers, under the direction of McCarty, finished in the Top 10 nationally in team earned run average (2.63 - 7th).

From 2011-14, McCarty's pitching staff set single-season schools records for wins, ERA, strikeouts, innings pitched, fewest walks per nine innings, shutouts, saves, pick-offs and fewest hits per nine innings. His team's 2.63 ERA in 2013 also set new Big South and Campbell records.

During the 2013 record-breaking campaign, McCarty recruited and coached the first Big South Pitcher of the Year in program history as Ryan Thompson set the single-season record for ERA (0.88) for both Campbell and the Big South Conference. Following the 2013 season, Thompson became Campbell's first All-American pitcher as he broke the single-season saves record for the Camels in both 2013 and 2014, while also leading the nation in ERA.

In addition to Thompson's accolades on the mound, McCarty also recruited all four of Campbell's All-Americans and three academic All-Americans. In four seasons with the Camels, McCarty has coached 17 All-Big South Conference performers, including a school record nine honorees in 2013.

Prior to coaching at Campbell, McCarty spent two seasons at Southeast Missouri State where he was responsible for pitching and recruiting. In his first season with the Redhawks, McCarty helped SEMO finish second in the Ohio Valley Conference in team ERA, strikeouts and opposing batting average. The Redhawks' pitching staff had two members named to All-Ohio Valley Conference teams in 2010, including Shae Simmons, who was also named Freshman of the Year in the league.

Assistant Coach Jake Wells

Wells, a former player under Goff at the University of Montevallo in 2004-05, comes to LA Tech as a hitting coach after serving two seasons as the coordinator of camps and volunteer assistant coach at Mississippi State.

While at Mississippi State, Wells was primarily responsible for coaching first base for the Bulldogs, working with the catchers and coordinating the team's winter and summer baseball camps.

In 2013, Wells coached two catchers who went on to sign professional contracts and followed up in 2014 by coaching Mississippi State's Gavin Collins, the first All-Southeastern Conference freshman catcher in the 124-year history of the program. Wells was also a part of a Mississippi State coaching staff that led the Bulldogs to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances, including finishing as finalists in the 2013 College World Series.

Assistant Coach JD Hulse

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