Coach Mose Rison enters his fourth season as head coach at NCCU. He accepted the challenge of leading the Eagles football program to the NCAA Division I (Football Championship Subdivision) level on Feb. 6, 2007, when he was announced as the school's 19th head football coach.
He came to NCCU as the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2006, but after one season accepted the role of head coach for the first time in his 25-year coaching career.
In 2009, NCCU’s high level of competition and determination did not translate into victories during the first half of the season. The Eagles were ahead at Hampton with less than two minutes remaining, held a second-half lead at nationally-ranked Liberty, dropped two contests in overtime, and took an advantage into the second quarter against three-time national champion Appalachian State. Battered but not defeated, NCCU responded by winning four of the final five games of the season to finish the campaign with a 4-7 record. Even in the lone setback during the season-ending run, the Eagles amazingly rallied from a 28-0 second-half deficit to tie the game in the fourth quarter.
In 2008, a young and inexperienced squad got off to a slow start against one of the toughest schedules in the FCS ranks. Still, the squad continued to battle and improve, resulting in victories in three of the last four contests to finish the season with a 4-7 record.
In 2007, Rison led the Eagles to a winning 6-4 record in the program's first season of NCAA Division I (FCS) competition.
In 2006, Rison directed NCCU's offense to 371 points (30.9 per game), the most in school history, during the Eagles historic 11-1 campaign. Under Rison's tutelage, freshman quarterback Stadford Brown was named as the "SBN Sports Doug Williams Offensive Player of the Year," the 2006 CIAA Offensive Player of the Year and CIAA Rookie of the Year.
A 1978 graduate of Central Michigan University, Rison spent the 2005 season as the Quarterbacks Coach/Passing Coordinator at Davidson College, where the Wildcats averaged more than 200 yards passing per game running a West Coast offensive system. He has also held positions at Livingstone College (Offensive Coordinator, 2004), the University of Arizona (Wide Receivers/Passing Coordinator, 2003), Stanford University (Wide Receivers, 1995-2000), Rutgers University (Wide Receivers/Tight Ends, 1991-94), the U.S. Naval Academy (Wide Receivers, 1988-90), and Central Michigan University (Wide Receivers, 1981-87). During his tenure at Stanford, Rison coached in three bowl games, including the 2000 Rose Bowl.
Rison, the cousin of five-time NFL All-Pro receiver Andre Rison, spent two seasons (2001-02) in the National Football League coaching ranks as the wide receivers coach with the New York Jets, helping to develop Laveranues Coles and Santana Moss. He has also held NFL summer internships with the Baltimore Ravens (2000), Chicago Bears (1999), New York Jets (1993) and Detroit Lions (1988).
A standout running back for Central Michigan from 1974-77, Rison helped the Chippewas to a 13-1 record and a Division II national title as a freshman. He rushed for 1,283 yards and scored 12 touchdowns as a senior to earn all-conference and team MVP honors.
Rison and his wife, Marilynn, have two daughters, Dominique and Tara.
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The Mose Rison File
Born: July 22, 1956
High School: Flint Beecher H.S. in Flint, Mich.
College: Central Michigan, 1978
Graduate Degree: Central Michigan, 1983
Player:
1974-77 Central Michigan, Running Back
Coach:
1981-87 Central Michigan University - Assistant Coach, Wide Receivers
1988-90 U.S. Naval Academy - Assistant Coach, Wide Receivers
1988 Detroit Lions, NFL - Summer Internship
1991-94 Rutgers University - Assistant Coach, Wide Receivers/Tight Ends
1993 New York Jets, NFL - Summer Internship
1995-2000 Stanford University - Assistant Coach, Wide Receivers
1999 Chicago Bears, NFL - Summer Internship
2000 Baltimore Ravens, NFL - Summer Internship
2001-02 New York Jets, NFL Assistant Coach, Wide Receivers
2003 University of Arizona - Assistant Coach, Wide Receivers/Passing Coordinator
2004 Livingstone College - Offensive Coordinator
2005 Davidson College - Assistant Coach, Quarterbacks/Passing Coordinator
2006 North Carolina Central University - Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks Coach
2007 North Carolina Central University - Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks Coach
2009 North Carolina Central University - Head Coach
