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Kevin Coyle (born January 14, 1956) is an
American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
coach who is currently the defensive coordinator at
Fresno State California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California. It is one of 23 campuses in the California State University system. The university had a fall 2020 enrollment of 25,341 students. It offers bachelo ...
. Prior to that, Coyle was a senior analyst at
LSU Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 near ...
. He served as head coach of the Atlanta Legends of the Alliance of American Football (AAF) and also spent 13 seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals of the
National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...
(NFL). In October 2018, Coyle agreed to become the defensive coordinator of the Atlanta Legends of the Alliance of American Football, taking over the position upon completing the 2018 college football season with LSU. On January 9, 2019, Coyle was promoted to head coach after Brad Childress resigned from the position. Raised in
New Dorp New Dorp is a neighborhood on the East Shore of Staten Island, New York City, United States. New Dorp is bounded by Mill Road on the southeast, Tysens Lane on the southwest, Amboy and Richmond Roads on the northwest, and Bancroft Avenue on the n ...
, in 1974 Coyle graduated from
Monsignor Farrell High School Monsignor Farrell High School is an American Catholic high school for boys, located in the Oakwood section of Staten Island, New York. Opened in 1961, the school is named in honor of Monsignor Joseph Farrell, a Catholic priest, as well as a re ...
in Oakwood,
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. He was inducted into the
Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame The Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame mission is "to recognize those individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to Staten Island sports history, and by virtue of their accomplishments, service, or force of character, have enriched tha ...
in 2011.


Head coaching record


Alliance of American Football


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Cincinnati Bengals bio


1956 births Living people Arkansas Razorbacks football coaches Atlanta Legends coaches Cincinnati Bearcats football coaches Cincinnati Bengals coaches Fresno State Bulldogs football coaches Holy Cross Crusaders football coaches LSU Tigers football coaches Maryland Terrapins football coaches Merchant Marine Mariners football coaches Miami Dolphins coaches National Football League defensive coordinators Syracuse Orange football coaches UMass Minutemen football players Sportspeople from Staten Island Monsignor Farrell High School alumni People from New Dorp, Staten Island {{Amfoot-coach-stub