Dewayne Alexander - Assistant Head Coach/Tight Ends - Staff Directory

Staff Directory

Dewayne Alexander

Title:
Assistant Head Coach/Tight Ends
Email:
Phone:
419-372-7083

Coach Alexander
Hometown	Hendersonville, Tenn..
College	Tennessee Tech (1989) - BS Tennessee Tech (1998) - MA
Family	Wife, Angela, sons Hayden, twins Ross and John, daughter Kate
Coaching History
1989-95	Hendersonville HS (Tenn.), Assistant Coach
1996	Jackson County HS (Tenn.), Head Coach
1997-98	Tennessee Tech, Graduate Assistant
1999-2000	Upperman HS (Tenn.), Head Coach
2001	Gallatin HS (Tenn.), Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line
2002	Tennessee Teach, Offensive Line
2003-05	Wilson Central HS (Tenn.), Head Coach
2006-12	Cumberland University, Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator
2013-15	Tennessee Tech, Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Line
2016	Cumberland University, Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks/Running Backs
2017	East Tennessee State, Offensive Line
2018-23	Tennessee Tech, Head Coach
2024	Sewanee, Offensive Line/Run Game Coordinator
2025-pres.	Bowling Green, Assistant Head Coach/Tight Ends

Dewayne Alexander joined Eddie George's inaugural coaching staff in 2025 as assistant head coach and tight ends coach. Alexander came to BGSU with 37 years of coaching experience at the high school and college levels, including serving as head coach at Tennessee Tech from 2018-23. Current Falcon Justin Pegues was on Alexander’s team from 2022-23.

Earlier in 2025 George hired Alexander away to Tennessee State from Sewanee where he was the run game coordinator and offensive line coach in 2024.

While at FCS Tennessee Tech, Alexander compiled a 22-43 record over six years, including a 6-6 mark in 2019, his second year, tied for the second-best turnaround for that season by an FCS program. Tech started the 2019 campaign 4-1 with wins over Samford, Virginia-Wise, Western Illinois and Eastern Illinois and ended the year with victories against Murray State and Jacksonville State.

The Golden Eagles finished the year 6-6 with 4,561 yards of total offense, the second-most in program history, and set five single-season offensive records. Sophomore quarterback Bailey Fisher set 10 single-game and single-season records.

During his tenure at his alma mater, he oversaw a program that faced a host of challenges, including the sudden death of a coach, staff members departing for head coaching positions, a tornado that badly damaged the Putnam County community, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alexander served on the NCAA’s Committee for Ethical Conduct and Sportsmanship and the Tech football team won five straight Ohio Valley Conference Team Sportsmanship Awards, while Seth Carlisle and Jamaal Thompson each won one of the conference’s top honors – the Steve Hamilton Sportsmanship Award. He won the Sgt. York Trophy for just the second time in program history, defeating nationally-ranked Austin Peay and Tennessee State during the Spring 2020 season. He was also named the 2023-24 Upper Cumberland FCA Coach of the Year for his work on-and-off the field to serve the Upper Cumberland community and schools.

The Hendersonville, Tenn., native served as the head coach at NAIA Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn., from 2006-12, winning a Mid-South Conference West Division championship in 2008. Forty-four of his players earned All-Mid-South Conference honors and 101 were named Mid-South Conference Scholar-Athletes accolades.

Cumberland played for the conference title in 2010, 2011 and 2012 while 39 players were named Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Twenty players garnered MSC Player of the Week accolades and five were named NAIA National Players of the Week. The club led the nation with 16 NAIA Scholar-Athletes in 2012 and Lemeco Miller was voted MSC Offensive Player of the Year.

Alexander compiled a 41-33 mark in his seven seasons as head coach, including 23-16 in Mid-South Conference action, taking over a program in 2006 that had won just two games the previous two seasons. He was named the NAIA Region I Coach of the Year and the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Coach of the Year in 2010 after leading the program to an 8-3 mark. He registered a 23-9 record his final three seasons at CU.

He spent three seasons as assistant head coach-offense at Tennessee Tech from 2013-15 under head coach Watson Brown, coaching the offensive line, helping Charles Mouton garner Second Team All-OVC recognition in 2015 and Wesley Sherrill First Team All-OVC selection in 2013.

Alexander returned to Cumberland for one year in 2016 as offensive coordinator before spending one season as offensive line coach at FCS East Tennessee State in 2017, helping the Buccaneers continue their rebuilding phase after the Johnson City school restarted its football program in 2015 and mentoring All-Southern Conference offensive lineman Alex Rios.

He started his coaching career at Hendersonville High School in 1988, a seven-year run as football, wrestling and softball coach before serving one year (1997) as assistant principal and head coach at Jackson County High School in Gainesboro, Tenn.

Alexander then served two years as running backs coach at Tennessee Tech for head coach Mike Hennigan before becoming head football coach and assistant principal at Upperman High School in Baxter, Tenn., for two years. He spent the 2001 season as the offensive coordinator at Gallatin High School in Gallatin, Tenn., before going back to Tennessee Tech once more, this time as the defensive line coach in 2002, tutoring D.J. Bleisath, an All-OVC selection, a Buck Buchanan Award finalist and later a Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Famer.

He was named the head coach at Wilson Central High School in Lebanon, Tenn., in 2003 and spent three years at WCHS before being named head coach at Cumberland in 2006. Wilson Central opened in 2001 and posted an 0-20 mark before Alexander took over. By his second season, the Wildcats had a winning record and in his third year, WCHS posted a 10-2 mark with the school’s first-ever playoff win and a fifth-place ranking in the final Associated Press Tennessee prep poll.

He earned a bachelor’s in Political Science with a minor in English from Tennessee Tech in 1988 and also garnered a master’s in Instructional Leadership at TTU in 1998. While a member of the Golden Eagles football team, Alexander received the team’s Hustle Award in 1987.

Alexander served as the NAIA representative on the American Football Coaches Association’s Ethics Committee (2010-13), a member of the AFCA All-American Committee (2012), a conference rater for the NAIA Coaches’ Poll (2012), the head coach for the East team in the 2010 NAIA All-Star Game, and serves on the board of directors for the Nashville, Tenn., chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame from 2008 to the present.

He is married to the former Angela Bonds from Hendersonville and the couple has four children – twins Ross and John, Kate, Hayden and daughter-in-law, Taylor Beaver.