Title: | Defensive Backs / Defensive Pass Game Coordinator |
Phone: | (316)-322-3208 |
Email: | mgray6@butlercc.edu |
Hometown: | Warner Robins, GA |
High School: | Warner Robins |
Twitter Handle: | @Coach_MoGray |
Alma Mater: | Oklahoma State ('09) |
After playing on the 2007 National Championship team at Butler, former Grizzly cornerback Maurice Gray is back in El Dorado and begins his first season on the Butler coaching staff as the Defensive Pass Game Coordinator & Defensive Backs
Prior to joining the Grizzly staff in February, Maurice spent the last six seasons coaching in the KJCCC with a four year stint at Highland and was at Hutchinson the last two seasons. Maurice helped guide the Hutchinson Blue Dragons to their first NJCAA National Title in school history in the spring of 2021 and won the Region VI Playoffs in the fall of 2021 with the Blue Dragons. In 2018, Maurice was named the NJCAA Defensive Backs Coach of the Year and in the spring of 2021 he coached the No. 1 safety in the NJCAA that went to Auburn University. He followed that up coaching the NJCAA Defensive Player of the Year in the fall of 2021 in Ro Torrence that also signed with Auburn.
During his coaching tenure, coach Gray has sent 30 defensive backs to NCAA Division I Universities and has had three former players play in the National Football League. He has coached a total of 10 NJCAA All-American defensive backs while winning five KJCCC crowns and two NJCAA titles as a coach and player.