Rick Trickett enters his third year on the Pioneer Football Coaching Staff.
Trickett will serve as the Assistant Head Coach, run game coordinator, as well as coaching the offensive line.
More than 35 players that Trickett has coached have gone on to play in the NFL and more than 40 players have won all-conference honors, including four of his five linemen at West Virginia in 2005 and 2006 and all five Seminole starters in 2012 and 2013. At LSU in 2000, three of his players earned All-SEC honors and he has coached 17 first or second team freshmen All-Americans.
From 2009-2016, Trickett coached six of the eight winners of the ACC's Jacobs Blocking Trophy including four straight winners from 2013-2016. Included on that list is Mobile, Alabama native and Oakland Raider Rodney Hudson who was recently inducted into the Senior Bowl Hall of Fame.
Trickett's coaching performance in 2015 will go down as one of the most impressive feats of his career. Despite returning just one starter, no seniors, and juggling six different starting lineups that featured nine different starters because of injuries, the Seminole offensive line opened holes for Dalvin Cook, who tallied school records in rushing yards and total yards en route to All-American honors. The next season, the unanimous All-American Cook broke FSU's single-season and career rushing records behind a Trickett line that featured just one senior.
The success continued in 2017 with FSU running back Cam Akers who broke the FSU freshman rushing record with over 1,000 yards and had the ninth-best rushing season in school history. Only two FSU freshmen have ever eclipsed 1,000 yards rushing and both ran behind lines coached by Trickett.
His standout offensive line paved the way for the Seminoles to have the most prolific offense in the country in 2013 and capture the BCS National Championship on the way to a perfect 14-0 season. FSU set school and ACC records for single-season total offense, points per game, and yards per play as well as the national record for points while leading the nation in touchdowns.
While at West Virginia, the Mountaineers finished among the top 15 rushing offenses from 2002-2006 and three times were among the top-five nationally behind Trickett-coached lines. In 2006, the Mountaineers were second in the nation in rushing, third in scoring offense, and fifth in total offense.
Trickett was inducted into the Glenville State College Curtis Elam Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2018.
