Greg Quick
GREG QUICK
Linebackers Coach
Greg Quick has a long and proud coaching resume that has been constructed over 30 years at the NCAA and professional level. A natural teacher, he’s been offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, head football coach, assistant professor and track coach at a variety of institutions and was most recently the Head Coach, Athletic Director and Vice President for Advancement at Concord University in West Virginia. Quick and Argos Head Coach Jim Barker first worked together at New Mexico State in the mid-1980s.
2003-08: Head Coach, Concord University (NCAA)
1999-02:Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line Coach, University of San Diego (NCAA)
1994-99:Head Coach, St. Norbert College (NCAA)
1989-94:Head Coach, University of Chicago (NCAA)
1988-89:Defensive Coordinator, Claremont-Mudd Colleges (NCAA)
1986-88:Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs Coach, Edinboro University (NCAA)
1985-86:Linebackers Coach, New Mexico State University (NCAA)
1984-85:Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line Coach, Heidelberg College (NCAA)
1983-84: Linebackers Coach, St. Edward High School
1979-83: Defensive Coord./O-Line Coach/DBs Coach Emporia State University (NCAA)
Throughout his career, Quick has emphasized that his players be great students and great athletes. In 2010, Quick’s linebacking unit saw Kevin Eiben earn East All-Star honours and Jason Pottinger become a starter. Not only has he made thirteen players All-American athletes, he’s also placed his players on All-Academic teams and watched as two earned post-graduate scholarships. Teams he’s coached have established more than 100 institutional records and individuals have captured at least one NCAA career record as well as four NCAA nation-wide statistical titles.
Quick was a star centre at Baldwin-Wallace College where he was coached by the great Lee Tressel (father of Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel) and won the NCAA Division III National Championship in 1979. Quick holds a Masters of Science in Athletic Administration from Emporia State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Health and Physical Education with a Minor in Psychology from Baldwin-Wallace College. His studies on coaching and exercise physiology have been published in several recognized journals and magazines.
Greg’s and his wife Jeannie have been married for 31 years. They have six very talented children. Their oldest is Phillip who is faculty member and an assistant football coach at Mesa College in San Diego, Nathan is a lawyer who is serving on the prosecuting attorney’s team for the Charles Taylor trial in the special court for Sierra Leone, daughter Bonnie is an actress and clothing designer in Philadelphia, Benjamin, a banker, is a graduate of Wofford College and was named to the Academic All-American team in football, Brittany is a sophomore at Temple University and Corey is a high school senior who plays football and baseball.
