Les Moss is an

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coach and current head coach of the

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in the

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(IFL). He was the head coach of the

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of the

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(AFL) from 2010 to 2016 and the assistant head coach of the Albany Empire of the AFL from 2018 to 2019. He was the head coach of the IFL's

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for the 2021 season. He is the son of former NFL, AFL, CFL and NCAA head football coach

Perry Moss Perry Lee Moss (August 4, 1926 – August 7, 2014) was an American football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s. As a Tulsa tailback, he was on the Orange Bo ...

, who is enshrined in the AFL Hall of Fame.

Early life

Moss grew up in

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, until he was in eighth grade when his family moved to

Poca, West Virginia Poca is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 875 at the 2020 census. Poca is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population o ...

, where he attended

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. He was a member of the football team playing

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Career

Moss was head coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers of Af2, where he was Coach of the year. In 2010, Moss was named AFL Coach of the Year after compiling a 12–4 record with the Jacksonville Sharks in their inaugural season. On October 4, 2012, The Sharks announced that Moss had been re-signed through the 2014 season. He was fired by the Sharks on July 18, 2016 after a 5-9 start to the season. He was tight ends coach for the

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. On November 28, 2017, Moss was named the assistant head coach of the AFL 2018 expansion team, the Albany Empire. He was with the Empire in their 2019 season when they won

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. The entire league ceased operations after that season. In 2021, he was named the head coach of the

of the

. The Barnstormers finished 6–6 and were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. Moss was released in September 2021. He was then hired by the IFL's

as head coach for the 2022 season.

AFL head coaching record

References

External links

Team bio
UCF Knights football players Chicago Bruisers coaches Orlando Rage coaches Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Players of American football from Lexington, Kentucky Players of American football from West Virginia Sportspeople from Lexington, Kentucky People from Poca, West Virginia Massachusetts Marauders coaches Orlando Predators coaches Jacksonville Sharks coaches Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers coaches Albany Empire (AFL) coaches {{amfoot-coach-stub