2021 Tennessee Tech Football News

  • HoFer Frank Omiyale receives 2022 Athletics Outstanding Alumni and Alumni Outstanding Service awards
    May 20, 2022
    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. – Frank Omiyale leaves such an impact on everyone who meets him. Granted, in his days as an offensive lineman for Tennessee Tech and in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks, that’s what he was trained to do. Walking into T.W. Hunter Middle School on Friday morning and listening to the glowing words of appreciation and what he means to the student body and faculty at the school, you could tell they were excited to have the opportunity to show their gratitude for one of their own.
  • Key, Kilpatrick and Warwick named to 2022 Hampshire Honor Society
    April 13, 2022
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – As the National Football Foundation announced its 2022 Hampshire Honor Society, the Tennessee Tech football team had three players selected for inclusion as Jarrett Key, Tavin Kilpatrick and Jack Warwick were all named to the roster of 1,559 players from 313 colleges and universities across all levels of the game. Key, an accounting major with a 3.67 GPA, played every game at long snapper and was a crucial part of Tech’s kicking game, taking part in every kick the Golden Eagles had during his career. Warwick, an animal science major with an emphasis in pre-veterinary medicine, posted a 3.41 GPA. He finished the season with 56 total tackles, including 3.5 for-loss, while also breaking up a pass and recovering a fumble. Kilpatrick, the team’s William V. Campbell nominee last fall, graduated with a 3.74 in mechanical engineering and continues his postgraduate work toward a master’s in business administration. A preseason injury kept him from playing in the 2021 campaign. A spring 2021 inductee to the Hampshire Honor Society as well, he was retained for the 2022 selection after electing to return for another season.
  • Satterfield, Watson and Brown finalize 2022 Golden Eagle football staff
    April 08, 2022
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – While there are some familiar faces leading the Tennessee Tech football team on the field this spring, Golden Eagle head coach Dewayne Alexander also filled out his coaching staff with some new faces as Wesley Satterfield, Devin Watson and Bryce Brown join the Tech staff. It’s a staff with a lot of diverse experience across the collegiate landscape and building up student-athletes to tremendous achievement. Satterfield joins the staff as the Golden Eagles’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, the same position he held previously at Austin Peay. Watson will oversee the cornerbacks and serve as the team’s assistant recruiting coordinator. Brown will coach the running backs, while also working as Tech’s transfer/junior college liaison. In addition to the new hires, wide receivers coach Lamont Seward will take over as special teams coordinator, a role he held at West Alabama, while tight ends coach Bert Browne will add the director of recruiting/player personnel title. 
  • Tech football sees progress on both sides in first spring scrimmage
    April 02, 2022
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – As spring practice continues for the Tennessee Tech football team, the Golden Eagles got a taste of game action on Saturday in the first scrimmage, bringing out the referees and getting some crucial reps for the team. It wasn’t perfect – a flag here or there slowing down the tempo – but it was still a good performance for the squad as spring workouts go. Offensively, the Golden Eagles were able to move the ball up the field, collecting four touchdowns on the day. While the defense didn’t have any takeaways, it was still a good day for them, limiting big plays and making a couple of key stops.
  • Carlisle named Charles W. Hawkins III University Scholar-Athlete by NFF
    March 23, 2022
    FRANKLIN, Tenn. – The resume Seth Carlisle has put together in his time at Tennessee Tech is already impressive as the senior has many honors over the years. Carlisle added another one on Tuesday night as he was named a Charles W. Hawkins III University Scholar-Athlete by the Middle Tennessee chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame.
  • Class back in session as Tech football opens spring practice
    March 21, 2022
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – This time last spring, the Tennessee Tech football team was in its COVID schedule, playing games. Instead of the annual tradition of spring practice where the team had an opportunity to learn and develop players, the team was focused on trying to win an Ohio Valley Conference championship. So, for the first time since 2019, the Golden Eagles opened its traditional spring practice, the first day in a month’s worth of work to try to lead the Tech squad to the OVC title in this centennial celebration season for the Golden Eagles.
  • Big South and OVC announce football agreement; unique association to benefit all football members
    February 22, 2022
    The Big South Conference and the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) announced today that they have signed a letter of intent to create an association of their football member institutions, to begin with the 2023 NCAA Division I football season. The unique agreement combines the two conferences’ football membership to ensure NCAA championship access. It will provide the football member institutions a schedule of games against all the teams in their multisport conference and additional games against schools from the other conference. This new model for FCS football also creates more stability for the multisport conferences.
  • Crutchfield goes from OVC champ to working toward Super Bowl LVI success
    February 08, 2022
    LOS ANGELES – Six months ago, Carter Crutchfield was opening a whole new chapter to his football career. After years of working with Chattanooga, Austin Peay and Charlotte, an opportunity came open. He had already been working with one of the top young coaches in college football with Will Healy, but when the opportunity arose to work with one of the top young coaches in professional football in Sean McVay and the Los Angeles Rams, Crutchfield knew he had to take it. Fast forward to present day and Crutchfield, in his role as special assistant to the head coach, is helping the Rams and McVay prepare for the biggest game in the sport – Super Bowl LVI – against the Cincinnati Bengals.
  • Golden Eagle football inks 13 on National Signing Day
    February 02, 2022
    COOKEVILLE -- One of the most important days in the season for any collegiate team is National Signing Day. As the 2022 day rolls around for the Tennessee Tech football team on Wednesday, the Golden Eagles are building for its future and bringing in some spectacular talent. Wednesday's additions so far include:
  • Golden Eagles get eight on PhilSteele.com All-OVC teams
    January 11, 2022
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – As the 2021 football season is closing the books, another postseason squad was announced as Phil Steele.com announced its All-Ohio Valley Conference team. Tennessee Tech earned eight selections on its all-conference picks as senior defensive lineman Chris Tucker and freshman defensive lineman Devin Squires was named to the first-team roster, junior running back David Gist on the second team, sophomore wide receiver Quinton Cross, senior offensive lineman Kurt Huff, junior defensive back Josh Reliford and freshman returner Tanner Shiver on the third team and sophomore defensive lineman Kail Dava on the fourth team.
  • Carlisle named to FCS ADA Academic All-Star Team
    January 11, 2022
    CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Tennessee Tech junior linebacker Seth Carlisle added to his trophy case this week as it was announced that he was selected to the FCS ADA Academic All-Star team, one of three selections from the Ohio Valley Conference. Austin Peay linebacker Jack McDonald and Murray State offensive lineman Levi Nesler were the other two picked from within the conference. Players are nominated by their sports information contacts with no more than two nominees per school. Candidates were required to have a minimum 3.2 grade point average and have been a starter or key player with legitimate athletic credentials. They also have to be in their second year of athletics and have completed one full academic year at their present institution. They must also have participated in 50 percent of the games played at their designated position.
  • Key named TTU Unsung Leader of the month
    January 10, 2022
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Dedication, perseverance and commitment. Those are three characteristics that describe Tennessee Tech long snapper Jarrett Key to a tee. Throughout his Golden Eagle career, Key, a Livingston product, has answered the call and excelled in his position – one that doesn't really get a lot of attention, but is just as vital when it comes to the special teams group. Those traits made him an easy choice for the monthly Unsung Leader Award.
  • Tech football inks seven on early National Signing Day
    December 15, 2021
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- National Signing Day is always an important day for a football team as it helps shape the future of the program as the team addresses its needs. For Tennessee Tech, it is no exception as the Golden Eagles added some key pieces. The seven players, spanning Tennessee and Georgia, as well as far away as Oklahoma, bring some depth to running back, offensive line, defensive line, linebacker and defensive end.
  • Carlisle named finalist for STATS FCS Doris Robinson Award
    December 15, 2021
    Tennessee Tech linebacker Seth Carlisle was named as one of 15 finalists for the Doris Robinson Award, named after the late school teacher and wife of legendary Grambling State coach Eddie Robinson, and presented to a student-athlete who excels both in the classroom and the community. Carlisle is in his fourth season with the Tennessee Tech football team where he has played linebacker and served as a team captain. He finished this year with 67 tackles and an interception after having 50 tackles and earning the team’s Robert Hill Johnson Award as team MVP during the spring season. The year prior (2019), he ranked second on the Golden Eagles’ squad with 88 stops. In the classroom he was a 3.61 grade point average in biology health sciences (pre-dentistry) and earned multiple OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll selections and was named one of six OVC Scholar Athlete Award winners this Fall.
  • Tech earns fourth-straight OVC Sportsmanship Award for football
    December 10, 2021
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – For the fourth straight year, the Tennessee Tech football team is coming home with the Ohio Valley Conference’s Team Sportsmanship Award for football. The award is voted on by the conference’s student-athletes and coaches, bestowed upon the teams deemed to have best exhibited the standards of sportsmanship and ethical behavior as outlined by the OVC and the NCAA. Included in the areas for evaluation are the conduct of student-athletes, coaches, staff and administrators and fans. “It is always an honor when our football program and players are noticed and receive recognition that is voted on by our fellow competitors,” said Tech head coach Dewayne Alexander. “Football is a great teacher of life’s lessons and I believe strongly in its role as part of the educational process. On behalf of our team, staff and support staff, we are very appreciative of this recognition from the OVC office and our fellow OVC institutions.”
  • OL Huff named to 2021 FCS National Bowl roster
    December 10, 2021
    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Kurt Huff had a tremendous career with the Tennessee Tech football team, earning all-conference honors and being a part of an explosive Golden Eagle offense. Now the Tech offensive lineman get a chance to impress scouts this weekend as he was selected to the 2021 FCS National Bowl in Daytona Beach.
  • OVC, Southland Conference announce scheduling alliance matchups for 2022
    December 09, 2021
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. and FRISCO, Texas – The Ohio Valley Conference and Southland Conference have announced the dates and matchups for its football scheduling alliance for the 2022 season. In October the two NCAA Division I FCS leagues announced the framework for the collaboration which provides quality Division I non-conference matchups for teams in each league in 2022 and 2023.
  • Former Golden Eagle football standout Donnell joins German squad
    November 24, 2021
    STRAUBING, Germany – A former Tennessee Tech defensive standout will get his opportunity to play overseas as defensive back DeMario Donnell has signed with the Sraubing Spiders in the German Football League. Donnell, who finished up his Golden Eagle career during Watson Brown’s tenure in 2015, has most recently spent the last four seasons playing arena football with the Amarillo Venom and the Wichita Force in the Champions Indoor Football League, as well as the Columbus Lions in the National Arena League.
  • Tucker leads group of five Golden Eagles in all-OVC selections
    November 23, 2021
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Several Tennessee Tech football players put up big numbers in the 2021 season and their efforts were awarded Tuesday morning as the Ohio Valley Conference released its end-of-season team. In all, five Golden Eagles made the All-Ohio Valley Conference team as graduate defensive end Chris Tucker was named to the first-team defense, redshirt sophomore Quinton Cross, junior running back David Gist and graduate offensive lineman Kurt Huff were selected to the second-team offense and redshirt junior defensive back Josh Reliford was picked to the second-team defense.
  • Golden Eagles close out 2021 with loss at Austin Peay
    November 20, 2021
    CLARKSVILLE – As the final whistle blew on Saturday, it was the end of one of the longest stretches of competition for the Tennessee Tech football team. In the span of nine months, two seasons were completed, 18 games played. It was a gauntlet, a grueling one at that as the Golden Eagles had to battle injuries, illnesses but between February and Saturday’s November afternoon, they got 18 games in. It was certainly a feat to do it that took a lot of monumental efforts to get there. As the Golden Eagles took to the field on Saturday, those injuries and illnesses had taken their toll. With a few pieces missing from the lineup, the depleted Tech squad squared up with an Austin Peay squad that had been right in the mix for the Ohio Valley Conference race, including a narrow one-point loss to league champion UT Martin. Tech came out on Saturday determined to finish 2021 on a high note. The first two quarters, the Golden Eagles rallied from an early deficit to make it a one-possession game just before halftime, but Drae McCray’s monster night pushed Austin Peay out of reach, the Governors winning 48-20.
  • FCS All-In: A Legacy of Excellence at Tennessee Tech
    November 19, 2021
    Four players on this year's Tennessee Tech football roster are legacy athletes, as each of their fathers played for the Golden Eagles. Devin Squires (Thomas), Drew Martin (Eric), Clark Lockerby (Ted) and Maddux Richey (Clark) are continuing the Golden Eagle tradition their fathers helped build and doing so under head coach Dewayne Alexander, who is also an alumni of the program.
  • Golden Eagles look to close out 2021 with bookend wins over Governors
    November 18, 2021
    CLARKSVILLE – The Ohio Valley Conference football race is done, but there’s still pride on the line on Saturday as the Tennessee Tech football team heads to Clarksville to wrap up the 2021 season against Austin Peay. The Governors (5-5, 3-2 OVC) probably have Saturday’s contest circled as a revenge game after the Golden Eagles’ spoiled head coach Scotty Walden’s debut as APSU head coach. Kickoff from Fortera Stadium is set for a 2 p.m. start. Roger Ealey and Dylan Vazzano will provide the broadcast on 98.5 KISS FM, while Barry Gresham and Patton Cook will have the call on ESPN+ (subscription required).
  • Skyhawk rush spoils Tech's Homecoming
    November 14, 2021
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Big plays haunted the Tennessee Tech football team on Saturday as UT Martin clinched the Ohio Valley Conference football championship, spoiling the Golden Eagles’ Homecoming in a 42-3 defeat at Tucker Stadium. The Golden Eagles (3-7, 1-4 OVC) honored its 13 seniors before the start of the contest as the home portion of the schedule comes to a close. Tech will close out the regular season next Saturday as it travels to Austin Peay.
  • Tech announces new construction, upgrades to football facilities
    November 11, 2021
    COOKEVILLE -- With its 100th anniversary of football approaching in 2022, Tennessee Tech has announced plans for the construction of a new state-of-the-art Football Operations Center.  The 40,000-square-foot facility is phase one of a two-phase process to significantly upgrade and enhance the football program. “Tennessee Tech has a tradition of winning championships in football, but those date back a number of years,” said Tennessee Tech President Phil Oldham.  “This new Football Operations Center will go a long way in helping build a program that consistently competes for and wins championships.” 
  • Homecoming at Tech brings in Skyhawks Saturday
    November 11, 2021
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Homecoming on a college campus. It’s one of the most treasured traditions for any school. The leaves have turned various shades of red and orange with a cool, crisp air. Fans decked out in their team gear line the streets as the Homecoming parade marches down the street.  On Saturday, it’ll be Tennessee Tech’s turn for the pageantry as the Golden Eagles host their 90th Homecoming game, bringing in UT Martin for the annual affair.  Kickoff for the game is slated for 1:35 p.m. Roger Ealey and Frank Harrell will provide the broadcast on 98.5 KISS FM, while Dylan Vazzano and Sam Brooks will handle the call on ESPN+ (subscription required). 
  • Late rally comes up short as Golden Eagles fall at Murray State
    November 06, 2021
    MURRAY, Ky. – The Tennessee Tech football team was able climb back to within five points of the Murray State Racers on Saturday, but the Golden Eagles weren’t able to close out the rally in the waning moments of the contest, the Racers taking a 32-27 victory over Tech. The Golden Eagles (3-6, 1-3 Ohio Valley Conference) will return home next Saturday for their home finale, Homecoming and Senior Day, hosting UT Martin. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
  • Golden Eagles return to OVC play with trip to Murray State
    November 04, 2021
    MURRAY, Ky. – When the 2021 spring football season ended in April, things looked pretty optimistic for the Murray State Racers. After all, they finished second, just a game back from the departing Jacksonville State, posting a 5-2 record in league play after opening on a 5-0 run, then falling to Austin Peay and Jacksonville State in the final two games of the season.  As the new season opened in the fall, however, it was the trend started in those final two games that seems to have dominated most of this campaign as the Racers stand in the gates for Saturday’s contest with a 3-5 record in tow, winless in the Ohio Valley Conference.  Kickoff from Roy Stewart Stadium in Murray on Saturday is 1 p.m. Roger Ealey and Dylan Vazzano will provide the call on 98.5 KISS FM, while the Racer broadcast crew of Neal Bradley and Josh McKeel will tackle the ESPN+ stream (subscription required). 
  • Carlisle named recipient of prestigious 2021-22 OVC Scholar-Athlete Award
    November 03, 2021
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The trend of Tennessee Tech student-athletes succeeding at the highest level of the Ohio Valley Conference continued Wednesday morning as the League announced its six recipients of the 2021-22 OVC Scholar-Athlete Award, including Golden Eagle football junior Seth Carlisle.
  • Squires named OVC co-Defensive Player of the Week
    October 24, 2021
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Freshman Devin Squires already has a rich family legacy with the Tennessee Tech football team. After all, his father, Thomas Squires, is a TTU Sports Hall of Famer. But on Saturday, the younger Squires got to do something his father never got the chance to – score a touchdown. Squires, a freshman defensive lineman, scored a touchdown on a fumble recovery, helping pace the Golden Eagles to a 56-13 victory over Virginia-Lynchburg. Squires was named the Ohio Valley Conference’s co-Defensive Player of the Week on Sunday, following a vote of the conference’s sports information contacts.
  • Golden Eagles strike quick to build commanding win over Dragons
    October 23, 2021
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – It was a big day for the Tennessee Tech football team as the Golden Eagles won their third game in the last four outings, putting a 56-13 effort onto the scoreboard against visiting Virginia-Lynchburg on Saturday.   The Golden Eagles (3-5) put together 404 yards of total offense, 299 of those coming on the ground. David Gist recorded 127 yards rushing for his fourth straight game over the century mark, becoming the first Tech rusher since Derek White in 2007 to do that. Jordan Brown also rushed for a career-high 110 yards – his first century game – to give the Golden Eagles two 100-yard rushers in a single game for the first time since 2015 against Austin Peay as Ladarius Vanlier and Brock McCoin accomplished that.
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