Bio

Tim Stowers will join the Blue Devil coaching staff for the 2010 season.  He will be taking on the duties of offensive coordinator and will handle the offensive line responsiblities.  Stowers was the head football coach at the University of Rhode Island from 2000-2007 and won a I-AA National Championship as the head coach at Georgia Southern in 1990.

Stowers was named head coach at Rhode Island on Jan. 13, 2000.  He inherited a team coming off a 1-10 record in 1999 and one that had lost 13 of its last 14 games while posting just one winning record in the previous 14 seasons. In 2001, his second year at Rhode Island, Stowers literally turned the program around - from a 3-8 record in 2000 to an 8-3 mark and a No. 20 national ranking in Division I-AA.  The Rams ran out to a school-record 7-0 start and for several weeks owned the No. 4 spot, their second-highest ranking ever.

Stowers shared Coach of the Year honors in the Atlantic 10 after the Rams finished a game out of first place. He wound up seventh in the voting for the Eddie Robinson Award, given to the I-AA Coach of Year.

As a 32-year-old rookie head coach, Stowers coached Georgia Southern (12-3) to the 1990 national championship after a 1-3 start, and won the I-AA Coach of the Year award for himself. He wasn’t just the most successful coach in I-AA in 1990, he was the youngest as well. He was the first coach in I-AA history to win a national title his first time out.

Stowers led the Eagles to two more NCAA playoff berths, nurtured 12 All-Americans, graduated 93 percent of his seniors (43 of 46), went 6-2 in NCAA playoffs games and finished with a 51-23 (.689) record. In 1993 the Eagles went 10-3 and won the Southern Conference crown in their second year as a member, earning him the league’s Coach of the Year award, and in ‘95 they were 9-4. But both years they exited the NCAA playoffs in the second round.

As an undergraduate at Auburn he earned two letters (1977-78) as a linebacker, offensive and defensive lineman under coach Doug Barfield. He spent his freshman year on the JV squad, but in 1977 he became the last Tiger to play regularly on both offense and defense in the same game.  When a back injury ended his playing career before his senior year, Stowers jumped right into coaching and spent three years as a student assistant coach (1979-81), working mainly with the JV squad. He moved up to head JV coach in 1982 and ‘83 while helping Pat Dye and the varsity staff win back-to-back bowl games.

Stowers and his wife, Gaye, have two children: son T.J. and daughter Kathryn Lee.