Coastal Carolina University Men's Football

Cody Cohen came to Coastal Carolina in 2024 after spending the previous three seasons at Western Carolina University. He was the video coordinator for two seasons before being promoted to assistant coach and the director of scouting entering the 2023-24 season.   While at WCU, Cohen was part of transforming the Catamount program into a contender as WCU increased its win total from 2021-22 and 2022-23 and advanced to the postseason for just the fourth time in program history with a return to the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) in 2023. Cohen was instrumental in the development of five All-Southern Conference selections including Marcus Banks who was named to the SoCon All-Freshmen team in 2022. Before joining the Western Carolina men’s basketball staff, Cohen served for two seasons as an assistant varsity basketball coach at North Broward Preparatory School in Coconut Creek, Fla. While at North Broward, he coached and aided in the development of four players who went on to play at the collegiate level.     Cohen also coached with Florida PRO AAU in the spring of 2021 where he aided in the development of Amen Thompson, Ausar Thompson, and Taylor Hendricks, who went on to be selected fourth- (Houston Rockets), fifth- (Detroit Pistons), and ninth-rounds (Utah Jazz) overall in 2023 NBA Draft. Overall, Cohen recruited, coached, and helped develop 13 players who went on to play basketball in college, eight of whom went on to play at the NCAA Division I level or professionally.  He spent the 2018-19 season as an assistant coach at Palm Beach State College, helping lead the Panthers to the FSCAA Southern Conference title and an appearance in the Region 8 tournament. Cohen was tabbed as the No. 7 junior college assistant in the Southeast region by coachstat.net. During his time at Palm Beach State, he recruited, coached, and developed seven players who advanced to NCAA Division I programs including Malik Curry, a 2019 NJCAA All-America selection. Cohen was the video coordinator at Murray State from 2016-18, with the Racers winning the 2018 Ohio Valley Conference regular season and tournament championships and reaching the NCAA tournament. While at Murray State, he assisted the coaching staff with video scouting, broke down game and practice film, and created a video playbook of the Racers’ offensive package. Before heading to Murray State, Cohen worked as an operations assistant with Synergy Sports Technology from 2016-18. While at Synergy, he encoded video with Synergy Sport’s software, verified statistics and uploaded video, and helped loggers troubleshoot system issues. The Boca Raton, Fla. native also worked with the Miami Heat during the team’s 2015 training camp as a video intern where he set up and broke down film equipment for practice and coded offensive and defensive segments. A 2014 and 2016 graduate of Florida Atlantic University, Cohen was a basketball student manager as an undergraduate before serving as a graduate assistant. During his time at FAU, the Owls secured the 2011 Sun Belt regular season championship and an appearance in the NIT.   

Moglia enters his fifth season as the Coastal Carolina head coach/executive director for football and third as the Chair of the Coastal Carolina athletic division, serving as the leader for Chanticleer athletics. He has posted a 41-13 record. Moglia was a national coach of the year finalists in each of his first three seasons finishing runner-up in 2014, before winning the Eddie Robinson FCS National Coach of the Year in his fourth year (2015). He has also been the Big South Coach of the Year twice and the American Football Coaches Association Region 2 Coach of the Year once (2014). He is the real-life inspiration for the Monty Burke book, 4th & Goal: One Mans Quest to Recapture His Dream, and garnered national media attention by the likes of Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, FoxSports.com, ESPN Gameday, ESPN.com Grantland Series, Associated Press, The Sports Network, Yahoo.com, Yahoo!Sports.com, Esquire, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and CNNRadio.com to name a few. Yes, his story of leaving his first love of coaching to enter and later conquer the business world only to return to coaching is interesting. However, what ultimately proved to be the most compelling aspect of the move have been the results. In his first season, Moglia led Coastal Carolina to an 8-5 record overall, a 5-1 league mark and a share of the 2012 Big South championship. The Chanticleers earned the leagues automatic bid to the NCAA Division I FCS Championship, directed the program to its first win in the NCAA playoffs and led CCU to a ranking of 24th in both of the final national polls. His second season was even more spectacular. The Chanticleers, ranked as high as #3 during the season, posted a 12-3 record overall and was 4-1 in the Big South to win a second Big South title. Coastal won two playoff games, including victories versus #12 Bethune-Cookman at home and an improbable 42-35 win at #4 Montana before falling to top-ranked North Dakota State in the FCS quarterfinals and finishing ranked seventh in both national polls. At seasons end, the CCU set 25 individual and 23 team single-season records while establishing 17 Big South offensive team seasons records. Year three was even more impressive. The Chants (12-2, 4-1) won their first 11 games and were ranked #1 in the nation the final two weeks of the regular season. Coastal was a #7 national seed, earning a first-round bye to the NCAA FCS Championship and defeated nationally-ranked Richmond to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals for the second straight season. Coastal led defending and eventual national champion North Dakota State in the fourth quarter before falling to the Bison. Moglia helped CCU establish league records by winning 11 straight to start the season, winning seven road games in one season and starting a season at least 9-0 in consecutive years. Coastals 24 wins in 2013 and 2014 were the second-best total in the nation, trailing only North Dakota State. In 2015, Coastal won its first eight games and was ranked #1 in the nation for eight consecutive weeks. The Chants once again earned a berth to the NCAA postseason and hosted a first round contest. For this and his many contributions, Moglia was won the 2015 Eddie Robinson Award as the nation's top FCS coach and was selected the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame's Humanitarian of the Year. While Moglia is like most coaches in putting a true emphasis on the three phases of the game - offense, defense and special teams, his outside-the-box thinking on how to achieve this goal with his staff is visionary. On that level, his one team rule Be A Man better known as BAM where he simply asks student-athletes to stand on their own two feet and take responsibility both good and bad for their actions. Coastal made huge strides across the board in his first season. One of the biggest was Coastal going from 100th nationally in yards penalized 90th in number of penalties to leading the Big South and ranking 17th nationally in fewest penalty yards 18th in fewest penalties per game. Offensively in Moglias first year, the team went from 90th to 18th nationally in total offense, while linebacker Quinn Backus was named All-American and Big South Defensive Player of the Year. In addition, Coastals special teams truly became a weapon, safely converting five two-point conversions with Niccolo Mastromatteo and Tre Henderson each ranking 13th nationally in punt and kick returns, respectively. A total of 12 All-Big South honors were bestowed upon Moglias players in his first season including first team picks. In 2013, Coastal Carolina defeated four conference champions and was 4-2 against teams in the final national polls. Coastal Carolina led the Big South in 12 categories while ranking among the NCAA FCS top 10 in fewest tackles for loss allowed (1st), fewest blocked punts allowed (1st-t), red zone offense (3rd), third down conversions (2nd), fourth down conversions (2nd), scoring offense (5th), first downs (5th), fewest fumbles lost (7th), rushing offense (8th) and passing efficiency (8th). Individually, Backus not only repeated as Big South Defensive Player of the Year, but he was a consensus All-American and finalist for the Buck Buchanan National Defensive Player of the Year Award. The honors did not stop there. Lorenzo Taliaferro was also a consensus All-American as well as the Big South Offensive Player of the Year and finalist for the Walter Payton National Player of the Year Award. Taliaferro and Matt Hazel went on to represent CCU in the Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine Bowl, both were invited to the NFL Combine in Indianapolis and they became the first pair of Big South teammates ti be drafted in the same year Taliaferro in the fourth round and Hazel in the sixth. In addition, LaDarius Hawthorne was tabbed Big South Special Teams Player of the Year, Jamey Cheatwood earned All-American honors, Mastromatteo was one of 16 college football players (all divisions) to earn an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship from the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame and a total of 16 Chanticleers earned All-Big South. Moglias third season, 2014, was yet another breakthrough season. The Chants were 12-2 with both losses coming by a combined eight points while posting a 4-1 to win a third straight Big South Championship. Backus became the first player to be a three-time Big South Defensive Player of the Year while Alex Ross gave Coastal its second straight Big South Offensive Player of the Year award as well as a second straight finalist for the Walter Payton Award. Backus, a consensus All-American for the second straight year, was additionally named the top collegiate linebacker by the FCS ADA while finishing fourth in the Buck Buchanan Award voting. Chad Hamilton was named a consensus All-American and joined Backus and Ross among 16 Chants named All-Big South. For his effort, Moglia was runner-up for the Eddie Robinson National Coach of the Year Award while being AFCA Region 2 Coach of the Year and co-Big South Coach of the Year. The former head coach of the United Football Leagues Omaha Nighthawks, Moglia was hired as the head football coach at Coastal Carolina University on Dec. 19, 2011 in a press conference held at Adkins Field House. In addition to leading CCU to a #1 ranking for eight weeks and his indivdual honors in 2015, Moglia coached All-Americans De'Angelo Henderson and Devin Brown, while Ross was named both Academic All-America and American Football Coaches Association All-American. Coastal once again did weel in the Big South year-end indivdual honors as Henderson was the Offense Player of the Year, Brown the Special Teams Player of the Year and Ross the Scholar-Athlete of the Year. In fact, Ross, who owns nearly every CCU passing and total offense record, became the first Big South player to be a three-time, first tem All-Big South selection as well as being the first player to be both a Player of the Year and a Scholar-Athlete of the Year.  Moglia, who will begin his 25th year as a coach in the 2016 season, is also Chairman of the Board for TD Ameritrade, a position he has held since 2008. Moglia, who coached the Stars Team at the 2011 Eastham Energy College All-Star Game, spent this past fall coaching the Nighthawks in the third year of the UFLs existence. Moglias team led the UFL in passing offense, sacks, tackles-for-loss, punt returns and blocked kicks. Also, the Nighthawks produced the 2011 UFL Defensive Player of the Year, Stuart Schweigert. Moglia joined an elite roster of UFL head coaches including Dennis Green, Jim Fassel, Marty Schottenheimer and Jerry Glanville. From 2009-10 Moglia served as Executive Advisor to the Head Football Coach at the University of Nebraska in preparation for achieving his original lifelong pursuit, being a collegiate head football coach. In his two seasons at Nebraska, the Cornhuskers won two Big 12 North championships and played in the Holiday Bowl each season. In 2010, Cornhusker football student-athletes elected Moglia to receive Nebraskas prestigious U.S. Grant Sharp Admirals Trophy for Leadership and Service. Moglia has been inducted into two high school halls of fame and the Omaha Business Hall of Fame while receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, Columbus Citizens Foundation Leadership Award, National Italian American Foundation Special Achievement Award in Business, American Institute for Stuttering Lifetime Achievement Award and National Italian American Sports Hall of Fames Man of the Year. Moglia is the only person to publish books on both football and investing, including The Key to Winning Football: The Perimeter Attack Offense (1981) and Coach Yourself to Financial Success: Winning the Investment Game (2005), while contributing to numerous national football coaching journals. He has also been a keynote speaker at the 2011 American Football Coaches Association (Its About Being a Leader) and 2010 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (Leadership in a 24/7 Stress Filled Environment). Moglia served as TD Ameritrades Chief Executive Officer for seven years (2001-08). Under his leadership, the company had a 500 percent return on investment, and the firms market cap increased from $700 million to $10 billion. Prior to joining TD Ameritrade, Moglia spent 17 years working with Merrill Lynch (1984-2001). Before entering the business world, Moglia was a football coach for 16 years. He won two Ivy League championships as defensive coordinator at Dartmouth (1982-83), set defensive and special teams records at Lafayette (1978-80) and turned around two high school programs. He has served on the board of several not-for-profit and educational organizations, including STRATCOM Consultation Committee, Creighton University, Fordham Preparatory School, National Italian American Foundation, Omaha Chamber of Commerce and Boy Scouts of America. Moglia graduated from Fordham University with a bachelors degree in economics in 1971, earning Deans List recognition and acceptance into Omicron Delta Epsilon (National Economic Honor Society). He went on to receive his Master of Science degree in education from the University of Delaware in 1974 and holds honorary doctorate degrees from Fordham University (Humane Letters), Bellevue University (Commerce) and Bentley University (Commercial Science). 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