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Tom Stacy

  • Title
    Assistant Football Coach - Offensive Coordinator / Quarterbacks
  • Email
    tstacy@ashland.edu
  • Phone
    419-289-5720

YEAR: 15th in 2025-26
PREVIOUS COLLEGE: Bowling Green '81

AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

  • Stacy is in his second tour of duty at AU. He is AU's offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach.
  • He came to Ashland with then-head coach Lee Owens and was AU’s offensive coordinator in 2004. He left AU after that one season and returned in 2011.
  • Stacy has had success with quarterbacks at AU. In 2012, Taylor Housewright flourished as one of the top quarterbacks in the nation. He was the GLIAC Player of the Year, a first-team All-American and a finalist for the Harlon Hill Trophy. The Eagles were sixth in the nation in pass efficiency in 2012 and 11th in scoring offense. In 2016, Travis Tarnowski became Ashland's all-time leader in touchdown passes. In 2017, Tarnowski added career records at AU in passing yards and total offense yards.
BEFORE ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
  • Stacy served as the head coach at two high schools – storied Massillon in Massillon, Ohio, and Green High School. At Massillon, he was 26-11 in three years and in 2005, Massillon was the Division I state runner-up with a 13-2 record.  Stacy coached at Green from 2008-10.
  • From 1995-2003, Stacy was an assistant under Owens at the University of Akron. He served as the quarterbacks coach and tutored two of the most successful quarterbacks in school history – Charlie Frye and Butchie Washington. In 2000, Akron was the co-champion of the Mid-American Conference Eastern Division.
  • Prior to coaching with the Zips, Stacy held a number of high school coaching positions. He was the head coach at Shelby from 1991-94, where he guided the Whippets to a 24-16 record. He was the offensive coordinator at Galion (1983-86), Lancaster (1987) and Massillon (1988-90).

PERSONAL

  • Stacy is a 1981 graduate of Bowling Green. The AU assistant coach played baseball at Bowling Green, where one of his teammates was Orel Hershiser.
  • He and his wife, Shannon, a teacher at Northwest High School, have four grown children – Sarah, Brian, Kevin and Kristen. He has seven grandchildren.