Number 99 was assigned to a senior last season and so far hasn't been re-assigned as of yet on the Spring Roster online. So, I'm going with Assistant Head Coach / Defensive Co-ordinator Lance Guidry who is slowly getting the McNeese defense back to where it should be.
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Lance Guidry
Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator
Phone: 337-475-5221
Email:
[email protected]
Former McNeese standout and graduate Lance Guidry was named the Cowboys' assistant head coach and defensive coordinator on June 1 by head coach Matt Viator.
This will be the fourth stint for Guidry, a Welsch native and a 1995 McNeese graduate, on the Cowboys staff. He served as a graduate assistant in 1994 then returned as the school’s defensive coordinator from 2000-04, and in 2008, coached the defensive backs.
In his seven combined years previously on the McNeese coaching staff, the Cowboys have compiled a 60-26 record, including a 31-11 mark in Southland Conference games. McNeese won three conference championships during that span, made five FCS playoff appearances, and played in the 2002 FCS National Championship game.
Guidry served as defensive coordinator at Western Kentucky in 2011 and 2012 and was named interim head coach on December 8 of 2012 to lead WKU against Central Michigan in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit, Mich., on December 26, a game the Hilltoppers dropped 24-21.
Guidry has experience in the role, as the former assistant coach at Miami (Ohio) led the Redhawks to a 35-21 victory over Middle Tennessee as the interim head coach in the 2011 GoDaddy.com Bowl, helping Miami finish off a 10-4 season after going 1-11 the previous year. Miami became the first FBS school to go from double-digit losses to double-digit wins in consecutive seasons.
Guidry helped orchestrate a similar turnaround since arriving on the Hill in 2011, helping WKU to back-to-back winning seasons in 2011 and 2012, including the program’s first-ever bowl bid since joining the FBS.
Guidry’s 2012 Hilltopper defense was a force nationally, ranking in the top 40 in seven different national defensive categories. The Guidry-led defense ranked 23rd nationally in total defense (344.42) and 12th in the nation in tackles for loss per game (7.42).
His squad also ranked at the top of four defensive categories in the Sun Belt Conference, including total defense, pass defense efficiency (128.4), sacks (31) and first down defense (19.3), while ranking second in rushing defense (136.6), scoring defense (25.6), passing defense (206.2) and interceptions (13).
Under Gudiry’s guidance, WKU senior defensive end Quanterus Smith put together a record-breaking 2012 season, accumulating 12.5 sacks and 18.5 tackles for loss on his way to being named the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year. Smith’s sack total in 2012 was just one away from setting a single-season Sun Belt Conference record, and his 24.0 career sacks tied the conference record. In two years under Guidry, Smith racked up 20 of his 24 career sacks.
Guidry’s defense has shown up in big games, including games against the nation’s elite. In a week two matchup against defending nation champion Alabama, the WKU defense held the Crimson Tide to just 103 yards rushing, which was the team’s lowest output of the 2012 season. The 103 rushing yards were more than 120 yards less than the team’s season average, as Alabama went on to finish the season averaging over 224 yards per game on the ground en route to a BCS National Championship. The Crimson Tide averaged just over three yards per carry against WKU in that game.
Guidry, a 1995 graduate of McNeese State (La.), joined the Miami staff after serving as the defensive secondary coach at McNeese State in 2008. A veteran coach in Louisiana football's high school ranks, Guidry served as secondary coach at Leesville High School in 1995 and 1996, helping lead the Wampus Cats to the state championship game in 1995. He also coached defensive backs at Carencro (La.) High School for three seasons (1997-99), then returned years later to serve as the Golden Bears' head coach (2005-07).
In between his stints at Carencro, Guidry served as defensive coordinator and coached the secondary at McNeese State (2000-04). The Cowboys reached the Football Championship Subdivision (I-AA) playoffs in four consecutive seasons (2000-03), won three straight Southland Conference championships (2001, 2002, 2003) during that stretch, and lost to WKU in the 2002 FCS National Championship Game.
During those years, he helped produce such all-Americans as Joe Judge, Keith Smith and Hadley Prince.
Guidry was also a team captain, four-year letterman (1990-93) and all-conference defensive back at McNeese State and was a part of two conference championship teams (1991, 1993).
He and his wife, Starlet, have four children: Janzen, Madison, Alexis and Kaitlyn.
The Guidry File
Hometown: Welsh, Louisiana
College: McNeese State, 1995
Wife: Starlet
Children: Janzen; Alexis; Madison; Kaitlyn
Coaching Career
1994: McNeese State (Graduate Assistant)
1995-96: Leesville High School (Defensive Backs Coach)
1997-99: Carencro High School (Defensive Backs Coach)
2000-04: McNeese State (Defensive Coordinator)
2005-07: Carencro High School (Head Coach)
2008: McNeese State (Defensive Backs Coach)
2009-10: Miami (Ohio) (Defensive Backs Coach)
2011-12: WKU (Defensive Coordinator)
2012: WKU (Interim Head Coach)
2013 (spring): Stephen F. Austin
2013: McNeese State (Defensive Coordinator/Assistant Head Coach)
Playing Experience
1990-93: McNeese State (Defensive Back)