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Mike McFarland begins his third season on the Missouri S&T coaching staff as the team's offensive coordinator. Â He will also work with the Miners' offensive line.
Last season, the Miner offense averaged better than 350 yards per game, including 134.5 a contest on the ground that included a season-high 311 yards against Lincoln. Â S&T had the second-best scoring offense in the Great Lakes Valley Conference last season as it averaged 33 points per game.
In 2015, the Miner offense ranked fourth in the GLVC in scoring with an average of better of 28 points per game, in part due to a running attack that posted 156.4 yards per game on the ground. Â It was S&T's highest per game rushing average since 2012.
McFarland comes to S&T from Temple City High School in Los Angeles, Calif., where he was the head coach for the last four seasons and led that team to the playoffs in two of them. That was after a season at Pasadena High School, where he led a team that had gone 1-9 in the 2008 season to a 5-5 mark in that year when he was making his head coaching debut.
Prior to his head coaching stints at the high school level, McFarland had worked with current Miner head coach Tyler Fenwick at three of his previous stops. The first was at Occidental College in California, where he worked on the staff as the outside linebackers coach for two seasons and then as the offensive line coach on the staff with Fenwick in the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
In those two years, Occidental made the NCAA Division III playoff field – including a national quarterfinal appearance in 2004 – and had the top offense in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference the following season when it averaged better than 39 points per game.
McFarland moved on to the NCAA Division II ranks the next season as the running backs coach at Minnesota State University at Moorhead, where he helped guide the team from a 1-10 mark to a 6-5 record in 2006 behind all-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference running back Enol Gilles.
In the 2007 and 2008 campaigns, McFarland worked on the staff at Missouri Western State University as the tight ends coach, where the Griffons played in bowl games in both seasons. One of the players that he coached, tight end Alvaro Prado, was selected as the team’s most valuable player.
He began his coaching career as the offensive line coach at Muir High School in 2000.
McFarland is a 1997 graduate of California Lutheran University with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences. He and his wife, Tiffany, have two daughters, Breanna and Brittany and a son, Brendan.
