Mason Miller
Assistant Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator/Offensive Line Coach

Mason Miller enters his 12th season of coaching football in 2009 and joins Hal Mumme in the move from New Mexico State to McMurry. Miller will serve as the assistant head coach to Mumme and will be responsible for the offensive line.

At New Mexico State, he coached the offensive line for Mumme’s Air Raid passing attack and was promoted to the assistant head coach prior to the 2008 season.

Miller’s roots with Mumme go deep; Miller played running back for Mumme at Valdosta State for two seasons (1994-95) and helped the NCAA Division II school make the national playoffs for the first time in school history in 1994.

Miller stayed on at Valdosta State as a student assistant for his first coaching job in 1996 where he coached the freshman team and was a part of the staff that led VSU to a 1996 Gulf South Conference Championship.

From there, he moved to the high school ranks where he served as the offensive coordinator for Valwood High School in Valdosta, Georgia. He helped resurrect a program that had gone 1-19 in the previous two seasons and guided Valwood to a playoff berth in 1998 and then a state championship in 1999.  As the offensive coordinator, he coached his offense to a No. 1 state rank in total offense.

Miller then returned to the collegiate ranks at Washington and Lee University, an NCAA Division III school. There, he was the tight ends and wide receivers coach in Lexington, Va. for the 2000 season and coached baseball in the spring of 2001.

Miller reunited with his old college ball coach and helped Mumme start the Southeastern Louisiana University football program from scratch. Though the job started in 2002 as the program had a full year to recruit before competing in its first season in the NCAA Division I-AA beginning with the 2003 season. Miller coached the running backs in 2003 and moved to coach the offensive line in 2004. In 2004, he helped SE Louisiana rank No. 1 in the nation in total offense.

Mumme took Miller with him to NCAA Division I New Mexico State in Las Cruces, N.M. from 2005-2008 and he stayed with the Aggies’ offensive line all four years. He coached four all-conference linemen at NMSU including Nick Cole who has played for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles since 2006.

Miller played his high school ball at Walton High School in Marietta, Ga. where he graduated in 1994. He graduated from Valdosta State in Georgia with a B.A. in History in 1999.

He and his wife, Megan, live in Abilene and are expecting their first child in November of 2009.

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