Stowers joins Bulldog Football as Offensive Coordinator

Joining the Holmes Community College Bulldog football program as offensive coordinator is Tim Stowers, who brings extensive experience serving as head coach at Georgia Southern University and the University of Rhode Island. His 1990 team at Georgia Southern won the NCAA Division I-AA National Championship.

As an undergraduate at Auburn, he earned two letters (1977-78) as a linebacker, offensive and defensive lineman under Coach Doug Barfield. In 1977, he became the last Tiger to regularly play both offense and defense in the same game. A back injury before his senior year ended his playing career, and he moved into coaching serving as a student assistant coach and head junior varsity coach at Auburn. In 1982, as an assistant under Pat Dye, he helped the team beat Boston College in the Tangerine Bowl. The 1983 team was the SEC Champion beating Michigan in the Sugar Bowl. The Tigers finished third nationally with the toughest schedule in the nation.

He then moved to Georgia Southern as an assistant coach under the legendary Head Coach Erk Russell and was part of three I-AA National Championships. In 1990, Stowers took over as head coach when he won his own I-AA National Championship and was named the AFCA Kodak I-AA Coach of the Year. He was the first coach in I-AA history to win a national title his first time out. In 1993, current Bulldog Head Coach Jeff Koonz served on his staff as defensive line and strength coach. In his first season in the Southern Conference in 1993, Stowers was chosen Coach of the Year for winning the Southern Conference Title. Stowers then led Georgia Southern to two more playoff berths before becoming the head coach at Rhode Island.

Stowers was the head football coach at the University of Rhode Island from 2000-2007 before moving on to Central Connecticut State University as an assistant coach through the 2012 season.

Stowers and his wife, Gaye, have two children: son, T.J., and daughter, Kathryn Lee.