Tim Zetts is in his first season as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Austin Peay after spending 2018 as the assistant wide receivers/offensive skill quality control coach at Mississippi State.
Zetts spent the 2017 season as the quarterbacks coach at Davidson. Prior to that, he was the offensive coordinator at John Carroll. The 2016 Blue Streaks squad claimed the Ohio Athletic Conference title and advanced all the way to the NCAA Division III semifinals. The team averaged a shade under 33 points per game and finished the year with a 12-2 record. In 2015, the offense averaged 31.3 points per game, and five offensive players earned All-OAC honors.
He spent three seasons (2012-14) as the running backs coach at Fordham for current MSU head coach Joe Moorhead. In 2014, the Rams won the Patriot League championship, and under Zetts’ tutelage, Chase Edmonds won the Jerry Rice Award as the top freshman in the FCS.
A 2009 graduate of the University of Akron with a degree in business and organization communications, Zetts was a backup quarterback for the Zips when they won the Mid-American Conference title in 2005, before leaving in 2007 to compete for the starting job at Saginaw Valley State. He returned to Akron to begin his coaching career as a student assistant at Akron.
The Zetts File
College: Akron, 2009
Coaching:
2019: Austin Peay (Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks)
2018: Mississippi State (Assistant Wide Receivers/Offensive Skill Quality Control)
2017: Davidson (Quarterbacks)
2015-16: John Carroll (Interim Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks)
2012-14: Fordham (Running Backs/Recruiting Coordinator)
2011: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Running Backs)
2010: California University of Pennsylvania (Offensive Quality Control)
