Reggie Moore - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Wyoming

Sep 20 (Sat)

8:15 p.m.

Reggie Moore

Title:
Quality Control/Offense
Email:
reginald.moore@colorado.edu

                Reggie Moore is in his second year in quality control for the offense at Colorado, having joined new head coach Karl Dorrell’s staff on March 9, 2020. Moore and Dorrell were teammates at UCLA in 1986, his true freshman year there when Dorrell was a senior.

                Moore, 53, came to Colorado after spending most of the last decade in his native state of Texas. He was the running backs coach and run game coordinator at Cypress Christian High School in Houston for the 2018-19 seasons, which followed three years as the receivers coach and performance liaison at Prairie View A&M (2015-17). He had also worked as a coach for CES Performance Sports, a premier physical fitness center in the Houston area. He was the receivers coach at Westbury Christian High School in 2011; its head coach was Charlie Ward, the 1993 Heisman Trophy winner from Florida State.

                He spent three seasons (2008-10) as the wide receivers’ coach at his collegiate alma mater, UCLA, where he coached current CU tight ends coach Taylor Embree for the first three years of his career. He was also reunited with head coach Rick Neuheisel, who had given him his first collegiate coaching position in 2003 when he hired him as a graduate assistant and the team’s pro liaison at the University of Washington (though he would coach there under Keith Gilbertson after Neuheisel was dismissed in the summer).

                Moore returned home to UCLA after spending four years (2004-07) coaching the wide receivers at North Dakota State University under head coach Craig Bohl, where he also was the pro liaison. During his time there, NDSU made its move from Division II to I-AA (now the Football Championship Subdivision, or FCS), with the Bison posting an overall record of 35-9 during his tenure, including a 20-2 mark his last two seasons which included a 14-game winning streak. NDSU notched its first wins ever over FBS opponents, all on the road, defeating Ball State in 2006 and then Central Michigan and Minnesota in 2007 on its way to earning a No. 9 final national ranking in the final FCS polls. While on the Bison staff, in the summer of 2004, Moore was awarded the prestigious Bill Walsh Minority Scholarship and served an offensive internship with the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars (he also was the recipient of the same on two other occasions, spending it with the Seattle Seahawks in the summer of 2010 and again with the Green Bay Packers in 2016).

                He graduated in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in History from UCLA, where he lettered four years (1986-90; a three-year starter his sophomore through senior seasons) at receiver under coach Terry Donahue. He led the team in receptions as a senior, with 40 catches for 643 yards and three touchdowns, averaging 16.1 yards per, which was also his career average for 92 receptions (which totaled 1,483 yards along with scoring 10 TDs). He had three 100-yard career games, including a 105-yard effort at Washington in 1988 when he caught a 48-yard touchdown pass from Troy Aikman with 1:22 remaining to beat the Huskies, 24-17.

                At UCLA, Moore was a member of three bowl champion teams for the Bruins: the 1986 Freedom (def. BYU, 31-10, when he redshirted), the 1987 Aloha (def. Florida, 20-16) and the 1989 Cotton (def. Arkansas, 17-3). He was a Sporting News Sophomore All-America team member in 1988 and a preseason All-Pac 10 selection ahead of his junior year (’89). An honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic Team member as a senior, when he was UCLA’s Kenneth S. Washington Outstanding Senior Award recipient. He received an invitation to and played in the 1990 Blue-Gray All-Star Game as a senior in 1990, playing for the Blue squad that won, 17-14.

                He signed as a free agent wide receiver/kick returner with the New York Jets and was with the club for the 1991 and 1992 seasons; he was with the Los Angeles Rams in 1993 and before suffering a severe hamstring injury, wrapped up his pro career in 1995 with the San Antonio Texans of the Canadian Football League (during the time the CFL expanded into the U.S.). After ending his playing career, he returned to his native Houston where he served as a fire fighter and paramedic with the Houston Fire Department from ’96 to ’03 (where he participated in two calendars to benefit the Houston Burned Children’s Fund in both 1999 and 2000). He simultaneously began his coaching career at his high school alma mater, James Madison, where he was an assistant for four years (1999-2002) tutoring the wide receivers and working with the offense, which included quarterback Vince Young. He then went on to join the collegiate coaching ranks by accepting a grad assistant position at Washington.

                Moore was born March 23, 1968 in Houston, Texas and graduated from James Madison where he lettered in football and baseball. He was a Parade All-American as a senior in 1986 (among a host of national honors), selected to play in the Texas State High School All-Star game and was an adidas Scholastic All-American; he graduated ninth in his class. A talented infielder (shortstop), he was drafted in the 44th round by the Texas Rangers in the 1990 amateur draft. His father, Zeke, spent 12 seasons with the Houston Oilers (AFL 1967-69, NFL 1970-78) and played in two Pro Bowls; a brother, Trey, played basketball at Mississippi State and in Europe (he still does shows with the Harlem Globetrotters organization). He is longtime friends with CU’s “H-Boys” from 1986-90, who prepped at rival high schools: All-American and College Football Hall of Famer Alfred Williams (Jesse Jones), Kanavis McGhee (Wheatley) and Arthur Walker (B.T. Washington).