Graduate Assistant - Coaches Video | 2nd Season. The last 20 years have been an odd journey, with coaching jobs at College of the Desert, Cal Poly, Iowa Wesleyan, Valdosta State and a European league team in Pori, Finland. The Red Raiders trotted off the field at halftime with a lead, but not a large one: 14-10. His first year coaching Division 1 college football was 1997, at the University of Kentucky. James River is. MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. Minuteman coach Mark Whipple said many players from that era recounted MacPherson stories at last weeks UMass football golf tournament. "I've thought about going a whole season without calling a single running play," Leach says, only half-joking. He ran for an effortless 11 yards and a first down. Art Candi Jones . The four wide receivers fanned out, two on each side, and the lone back stood several steps to the right of the quarterback. I dont have any other problems anywhere. Grayson Hodges: Shane Queen: North Cobb: Line Backer: Ashton Woods: Daniel Brunner: Walton: Line Backer: Dee Crayton: Mike Palmieri: "Mike was a giving and . He's mad at Mike for trying to score. He regards receivers as raffle tickets: the more of them you have, the more likely one will hit big. in business. "If I hadn't been there, I think he might have taken a swing at Mike. Seven years later, those pieces were fit together and Hodges led the Bulldogs to the 5A state championship. Whoever played quarterback for the Texas Tech Red Raiders was sure to create so much offense that he couldn't be ignored. He had the chance to be part of some special teams trickery, including a touchdown pass on a fake field goal during a game against Maryland in 2010. Last year, after a loss to Texas A.&M. The combined record of Warrenton during that period was 36-8-2, according to the Georgia High School Football Historians Association. DURHAM - Duke Vice President and Director of Athletics Nina King announced Friday that Mike Elko has been named Duke University's 22nd head football coach. He knew he was not going to sleep anytime soon -- he keeps the hours of a vampire and wouldn't go to bed until 6:30 a.m. -- and so he might have even been thinking about reviewing game tape, which he usually does while others sleep. The weight room was lacking. Lived In Gallatin TN, Millers Creek NC, Clarksville TN, Springfield TN. HIT THE QUARTERBACK!" One day he announced to his wife, Sharon -- soon to be pregnant with their second child -- that what he really wanted to be was a college football coach. MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. A typical football offense has three serious pass-catching threats; Texas Tech's offense has five, and it would employ more if that wasn't against the rules. The surprise runner-up in the search earlier this year for a new San Francisco 49ers head coach, Schwartz had scrambled to answer a question: if he got the 49ers job, whom should he hire? Schwartz had an N.F.L. Thompson said he was surprised, but the reasons and rationale given by the coach put it in perspective for him. . On the other hand, he wasn't sure it wouldn't. Daily Hampshire Gazette. A sound: of surgical tape ripping, as Texas Tech's quarterback, Cody Hodges, affixed to his wrist a piece of laminated paper listing all the plays he might run tonight. They found the offseason programming thatll work. The game within the game was about to begin. . He participated in the GACA North-South All-Star game as both an assistant and a head coach. Judge Waring started taking on Civil. Later, Leach explained that he had decided to take up in-line skating, and he'd calculated that the middle of that particular road was Lubbock's flattest, smoothest surface and so the obvious place to start. Hodges has helped evaluate and coach Saints players like Alex Anzalone, Kiko Alonso, and Demario Davis. Hodges threw to four different receivers, at eight different spots on the field. You and me.". They aren't built to run around that much. //var LBtag_id = document.getElementById('buylinkLBUMassFootball-hg-080917,ph03'); He believes that both failure and success slow players down, unless they will themselves not to slow down. The team had slumped into the locker room, oozing self-disgust, and the players scattered into little bureaucratic meetings with their position coaches -- the offensive linemen with the offensive line coaches, the receivers with the receivers coach and so on. Scoring is a habit, he says; the more players do it, the better they get at it. To me, he was like a dad, he said. A memorial service will be conducted on Thursday at 5 p.m. St. James United Methodist Church by the Rev. Method 1 Becoming a School-based Coach Download Article 1 Get certified in your state. Former football coach Mike Hodges is retiring from UMass after 33 years. Twenty thousand Red Raiders were chanting his name. By play 40, they'll be immobilized." Luke Heslep. Hodges remained at Georgia Southern through the 1996 season. Sonny Dykes, Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson receive national awards A fast receiver covered by just one player is an open target waiting to happen for the simple reason that he knows where he is going and the defender does not. He brought it to a state level, longtime public address announcer Joe Thompson said of Hodges and the football program Thursday. He was a great guy, real friendly and helpful. Online football Training Videos and Courses teaching football strategy, technique, and X and O teaching how to coach football. 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In seven years as the head football coach of the Hermiston Bulldogs, Mark Hodges compiled a record of 46-28, winning two Columbia Conference championships and one state title when the Bulldogs beat Silverton 34-12 in November. MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. Jacob Hodges has been named the new head coach at James River. But Nick Hyder didn't just arrive at Valdosta, he'd already established himself as a hot property while at West Rome High School. This biographical article relating to a college football coach first appointed in the 1990s is a stub. The school announced his death on Tuesday. Hodges was named to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Class C All-State team in both 1965 and 1966 as a tight end and outside linebacker. But he's a genius. }, Former UMass football coach Dick MacPherson has died. "It doesn't look like it's there, but it is.". Hodges initially played college football at the United States Air Force Academy, before transferring to Blinn College in Brenham, Texas before opting to walk-on at Texas A&M. "If I call a stupid play, his job is to get me out of it. And Tulane Green Wave legend Ryan Griffin is one of the guys picking up the pieces of Tom Brady's shattered Microsoft Surface tablets on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers sideline. Details regarding Elko's introductory . var sellablestring4 = "GAZETTE FILE PHOTO"; You run into some difficulties sometimes if you bring in somebody thats outside of Hermiston, you wonder how loyal they are to Hermiston, Hodges said. It could be worse, and had been. He was enthusiastic and tough. From scratch!". Senior Keegan Crafton tracked down Hodges outside of the weight room Friday, asking about the decision to retire and his hips. But then something bad happened. That wrist held a mere 23 ordinary plays, 9 red-zone plays (for situations inside an opponent's 20-yard line), 6 goal-line plays, 2 2-point-conversion plays and 5 trick plays. The other glaring opportunity, to Leach's mind, was A.&M. They're both smaller in . scouts or even college recruiters as first-rate material. James River will open its season against L.C. //LBtag_id.innerHTML = ''; "All right," he cried, after the Lord's Prayer. A smell: the acrid odor of vomit. A few games later, the Texas Tech offense scored the most points Nebraska had ever given up in its 114-year-old history. "There's two ways to make it more complex for the defense," Leach says. In 15 seasons, Hodges produced a combined record of 149-35-3. David Dean - Head Coach, University of West Georgia Tom Hall - Flowery Branch High School Tommy Spangler - Head Coach, Presbyterian College Drew Cronic - Head Coach, Lenoir-Rhyne Univ. The 2023 NFL Scouting Combine continued on Friday, with the defensive backs participating in on-field drills. "It just takes a while to see how it all fits together. Hodges looked over and noted Jarrett Hicks all alone with a cornerback and threw Tech's first touchdown pass to him. In Leach's first year, his quarterback, Tim Couch, threw for 3,884 yards; the year after that, Couch, who lasted for only a few disappointing years in the N.F.L., threw for 4,275 yards. But here at Texas Tech it now passes for normal: the Tech offense scored a touchdown, then got the ball back five times more -- and scored all five times. Andrea Roberts. This system was recently introduced as a way to reward players on rookie contracts or near-league minimum salaries for playing more often than their peers; the Saints have drafted well lately, and Gardner-Johnson's new windfall is a testament to it. Cumbie threw the ball into the end zone to a wide-open receiver, who dropped it. Email. Hodges is in Year 4 with the Saints Hodges has helped evaluate and coach Saints players like Alex Anzalone, Kiko Alonso, and Demario Davis. The second best result is Mike Hodges age 40s in Washington, NC. mainly because the pros hired the famous coaches from the old-money schools, on the premise that those who won the most games were the best coaches. The Aggies have gig 'em, a frog-murdering gesture. But was this smart? This marks his 19th year in the National Football League coaching ra He had been harping on tempo all week: he thinks the team that wins is the team that moves fastest, and the team that moves fastest is the team that wants to. Hodges already stands third on the depth chart at the weak-side linebacker position . The first part -- Ace Rip -- is the formation, the way the players line up. Mike Adamle Michael David Adamle Position: RB 5-9 , 197lb (175cm, 89kg) Born: October 4 in Kent, OH (Age: 73-138d) More bio, uniform, draft, salary info 1 1 20 SUMMARY Career G 76 AV 12 Rush 308 Yds 1149 Y/A 3.7 TD 4 FantPt 178.0 Mike Adamle Overview Game Logs Career Postseason 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 Player Game Finder Splits Career 1971 MacPherson was at Syracuse when current UMass offensive line coach Mike Foley was an assistant coach at Colgate. For the first 16 plays of the game, Texas Tech lined up in seven different formations (one with two running backs, another with two tight ends, etc.) In 1984, Hodges moved to Thomasville, where he had great success. Leach doesn't expect receivers to go entirely uncovered -- though in the confusion he creates, that happens a lot -- but he does assume he will get single defenders covering a couple of them. Mike Hodges. True, he had shaved ("It's a good idea to shave for TV games") and shed his flip-flops, his "Hawaii Five-O" baggy shirts and his board shorts for an outfit that looked vaguely coachlike. In Leach's first three seasons, he played a quarterback, Kliff Kingsbury, who wound up passing for more yards than all but three quarterbacks in the history of major college football. Leach met with his quarterbacks in the coaches' locker room; he spent a few moments glancing at the first-half statistics. The next year, running Leach's offense, Oklahoma won the national championship -- but by then Texas Tech had picked up the pattern and hired Leach to run its team. That year Oklahoma went from 101st to 8th in the country in offensive scoring. From 2014-15, Hodges tutored the linebackers. They are leaving empty spaces unprobed. Want NBC12s top stories in your inbox each morning? While Whipple brought in some very key components to that team like Todd Bankhead, Adrian Zullo and Jimmy Moore, the rest of those players like Khari Samuel, Kole Ayi, Brian Smith and Marcel Shipp were recruited by Hodges. Hodges looked down and read what to anyone but a football player is incomprehensible: Ace Rip 6 Y Shallow. Would you like to receive our headline news? Seven years ago when Hermiston was in the market for a new football coach, then-athletic director Mike Kay had a name in mind Mark Hodges from Fernley, Nevada. The third result is Mike Hodges age 60s in Washington, NC. Georgia Southern AD: University to see multi-level boon from hosting NCAA Regional, Another great showing for Schenkel youth clinic. To a team that gains as many yards as Texas Tech, the usual boring, penny-ante yard-eating tactics -- punts, penalties -- are trivial. ", "Thinking man's football" is a bit like "classy stripper": if the adjective modifies the noun too energetically, it undermines the nature of the thing. As head coach, he compiled a 3530 overall record, including a 3614 victory over Rhode Island in the 1993 Wild Geese Classic in-season bowl game. The chances of that happening can't be great, though. Hodges then succeeded the legendary. var sellablestring2 = "STAFF PHOTO"; Cholesterol levels, blood pressure, everythings good.. Facebook gives people the power to. var photocredit = photocredit.toUpperCase(); Heres five quick facts to know about Hodges now that hes working in a more prominent role: Sign up for the Saints Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. He served as the head football coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1992 to 1997, compiling a record of 3530. right behind. '"; 020 7078 4849. mike@carringtonwm.co.uk. MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. He and Hodges had discussed it in passing for awhile and the timing made sense for Olson. Now they were 7-1, ranked 15th and still within sniffing distance of a major bowl game. Following in his Father's footsteps, he graduated from the University of Florida in 1975 with a B.A. HIT HIM! "You go out and knock the living dog snot out of people." record for passing yards in a single game (716). The big gaps between the linemen made the quarterback seem more vulnerable -- some defenders could seemingly run right between the blockers -- but he wasn't. He asked about Hodges upcoming hip replacement procedures and listened to the explanations his soon-to-be former coach gave him. var sellablestring = "GAZETTE STAFF"; Former quarterback Kliff Kingsbury in 2002 and Cody Hodges in 2005 each posted nine-win seasons during their careers, while 2003 and 2004 signal callers B.J. The Kansas City Chiefs lead the pack with three players as well as ex-Saints defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, but the Buffalo Bills are the only team with multiple former Saints on the active roster. tag_id.innerHTML = ''; var photocredit = "'AP' 'Former UMass, Syracuse and New England Patriots football coach Dick MacPherson has died. defenders hit him.) I ought to have Mike's Pirate School. Hermiston has been in a highly unusual situation the last seven years because they havent had a staff thats used Hermiston High as a stepping stone to go to a Tualatin or someplace like that a big 6A school or money or whatever. Mike Hodges Director of Football Operations. [4] He was promoted to assistant linebackers coach in 2019. The A.&M. "To Mike, everything he does makes sense," Wylie says. COURTESY UMass ATHLETICS His record as a football coach was 53-13-3 and he held a record of 124-67 as a baseball coach. receiver in training might run 1,500 yards of sprints a day; Texas Tech receivers run 2,500 yards. Hodges said female students have approached him, concerned about him and the football program. When we leave the locker room, we all know that we'll have three receivers wide open every play. He was a real outgoing guy. teams had failed. I got to know him a little bit, Foley said. Michael is related to Joseph Stephen Hodges and Susan Hodgef as well as 2 additional people. scouts, were missing big talent -- or (much more likely, in Schwartz's view) Leach was finding new and better ways to extract value from his players. COURTESY UMass ATHLETICS The governor of Texas, a graduate of Texas A.&M., Texas Tech's opponent this evening in early November, was just now finding his seat, along with the biggest crowd ever to watch a football game in Lubbock. Subscribe Today, Murdaughs fall from grace ends in life sentence for murder, Biden leaving room to change his mind on reelection, Authorities to discuss breakthrough in 45-year-old unsolved Granby homicide, Man, cats removed from Hadley home with no heat, running water. The referees did not notice: they were too busy throwing yellow flags at the extra Texas Tech players who had tried to get into the game. Former Georgia Southern University football assistant coach Mike Hodges was inducted into the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame on June 2 in Dalton. Receive our top stories in your inbox each morning. Hodges was co-defensive coordinator at Eastern Illinois, Before joining the Saints, Hodges rose in the ranks to earn a top spot at Sean. var currentLocation = window.location; Assistant Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator & Tight Ends Coach. He was a two-time Academic All-Big 12 selection and was named a first-team Academic All-American in 2010. Hall played two years under Whipple in 2002 and 2003 and helped the Minutemen win the Atlantic 10 championship in 2003. MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. Sam Barbee photo Buy Now He glanced once more at the grasshopper and thought, Oh, well, next time. Texas Tech's offense has no playbook; Cody Hodges's wrist and Mike Leach's back pocket hold the only formal written records of what is widely regarded as one of the most intricate offenses ever to take a football field. When you're a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. 2. Erick Olson, radio voice of Bulldog football who broke the news of Hodges retirement this week, said he saw it coming. "They weren't scoring all these touchdowns because they had the best players," Schwartz told me recently. He drove right through the A.&M. showed any interest in him; the only other offer he received from a serious football program was from Purdue. Threats of harming another Symons, who threw 52 touchdown passes and set a single-season college record for passing yards (5,833). At Murray State. Quickly, a pattern was established: A.&M. EVANSVILLE, Ind. They have also lived in Pinetown, NC and Pantego, NC. A lot of the players in the locker room had similar stories of rejection and redemption. andrea.roberts@tcu.edu. A recent doctors visit effectively forced him into retirement. Your e-mail address will be used to confirm your account. And yet -- look around! Aberdeen High School graduate Michael Hodges Jr. has played in college programs throughout Mississippi and semi-pro teams throughout the southeast. Its a real loss. Hodges was hired by the New Orleans Saints in 2017 to work as a defensive assistant. But that was it for his playing career. Bam! "They don't like coaching against him; they'd rather coach against another version of themselves. It was just a shock effect. When he was finished with Hodges, Leach marched into the locker room, climbed back up on his green stool and exhibited, with the enthusiasm of a man doing it for the first time, the proper way to swing a pirate sword. - Eastern Illinois men's basketball wrapped up the regular season last week and on Tuesday (Feb. 28) two players were honored by the Ohio Valley Conference as the league announced its end of season awards. Devlin Hodges is known as an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. 1. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. What happened next doesn't often happen in big-time college football, and almost never in the N.F.L. var sellablestring2 = "STAFF PHOTO"; The two has worked together at North Medford. //LBtag_id.innerHTML = ''; They say you cant teach an old dog new tricks, but he and his staff found ways to learn new tricks for the benefit of the program.. Davis led the Saints in tackles for the third straight season. //LBtag_id.innerHTML = ''; just to see how the defenders would respond and which way they would run after the ball was snapped. One of the side effects of Leach's tinkering with the accepted rules of offensive conduct is to upset the ordinary rhythms of a football game. Hodges was promoted to assistant linebackers coach in 2019 and now enters his third season as linebackers coach. They start having these quilting bees, these little bridge parties at the line of scrimmage." It is the index finger and the pinkie, not the thumb and the pinkie. He thinks that revenge is a silly motive and that waxing poetic on how history will judge you is distracting. They wear military uniforms and buzz cuts, holler in unison and stand at attention the entire game. A coach cannot change the shape of the football field, but he can change its effective size. Some of our players actually found that last week. var tag_id = document.getElementById('buylinkUMassMacPherson-hg-080917,ph05'); David Michael "Mike" Hodges - Age 65 Mike was born on October 8, 1952 in Palatka Florida to David and Myrthel Hodges. He wanted to make his arguments in the form of offensive plays. He had winning records in four of his six years, including a 9-2 mark in 1993 and 7-3 in his first year. The only other people on it were the two Texas Rangers assigned to protect him. He brought the passion and the focus and the love of the sport.. He left West Rome in 1974 to become head football coach at Valdosta. 8th Grade Science H is also supposed to adjust his plans according to how the defense lines up: if it looks as if the defenders will blitz -- that is, rush in to get the quarterback -- H runs a quick slant across the middle of the field so that the quarterback can throw to him immediately. Here's how a conventional college football offense lines up: Here's how Texas Tech lines up in Ace Rip, its most common formation: Leach is unusual in giving his quarterback the authority to change every play, wherever the line of scrimmage. I approached Coach London and told him that was my goal and he did a lot to help mentor me as well as the other coaches on the staff.. This marks his 19th year in the National Football League coaching ra. The Republican file photo Former football coach Mike Hodges is retiring from UMass after 33 years. Hodges briefly returned to coaching as an assistant at Brookwood Academy and Thomasville when his son, Clay, played at those schools. Marks found ways to adjust. Players were surprised initially, but the signs were there. But privately they haven't accepted him. 's fear of Tech's passing meant that the field just beyond the line of scrimmage was so open that a blind man with a cane could find the holes. None of them had been identified by N.F.L. "I don't even think there's such a thing as the perfect play. if (photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring2) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring3) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring4) > -1) { "Three things." 4-yard line. MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (WWBT) - Take a look at area high school football programs and youll notice a handful of former UVA players roaming the sidelines as head coaches. Box 999 Thomasville, GA 31799-0999 (229)-228-7132 (Home/Office) Other honors attributed to Hodges were serving as a board member and past president of the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association. Keep it Clean. Leach was out in the middle of the field shaking hands with a visibly upset Dennis Franchione, the Texas A.&M. var sellablestring4 = "GAZETTE FILE PHOTO"; He was always accommodating when wed go up there to talk football.. "You get good push, but if you got to run around a lot, you get tired." var photocredit = photocredit.toUpperCase(); And by the time the cameras left, he was. coach's perspective on talent, and from his point of view, the players Leach was using to rack up points and yards were no talent at all. 2 team, which ended Texas Tech's surprising shot at a national championship. As he allowed himself to be escorted toward the locker room, there were many things Mike Leach might have been thinking about. Slay was one hit shy of the N.C.A.A. There was one other thing Leach had noticed -- and Hodges had noticed it, too. The year before he arrived, Kentucky's quarterback passed for 967 yards. But if you were a fly on his shoulder for six months, you'd laugh your eyeballs out.". Mike Leach had become the Texas Tech head coach before the 2000 season, and from that moment its quarterbacks were transformed into superstars. Like all of his siblings, he was a three-sport athlete at Central. It is designed to maximize the possibility of something good happening rather than to minimize the possibility of something bad happening. And I think thats a really big part of whats kept me going. Graduate Assistant - Creative Video | 2nd Season. In the last six minutes of the half, Texas Tech scored three quick touchdowns; after the break Leach's team came out and scored another seven and won the game, 70-35. That's the best part.") Your account has been registered, and you are now logged in. DURHAM - Duke University formally announced Mike Elko as the next head coach of the football program in a press conference at KD and Sarah Lynn Kennedy Field at Pascal Field House on Monday . Choose wisely! The first time Mike's offense came out on the field everyone is like, Whoa. But at the start of a game, he's unsure what's going to work. I went twice.". if (photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring2) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring3) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring4) > -1) { The final drive reached the A.&M. [6], Last edited on 18 February 2023, at 02:22, "Texas A&M Student-Athlete Spotlight: Michael Hodges", "Saints staff chock full of former Texas A&M standouts", "New Orleans Saints hire Michael Hodges as defensive assistant", "Saints promote Michael Hodges to LB Coach", "Saints LB coach Michael Hodges juggles newborn, promotion & teaching in pandemic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Hodges_(American_football)&oldid=1140029424, This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 02:22. That willingness to adjust tactics based on athletes and attention to detail, both on and off the field, helped take the Bulldogs from second fiddle to champion. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. It was still ordinary time. Mike graduated from Palatka High School in 1970 he then attended St. Johns River Jr. College. Football & Physical Education Nicosia Hooker . var currentLocation = window.location; Because we haven't scored yet.". His role in the 1998 national championship season is often overlooked because of the personality of Mark Whipple. On fall evenings, his voice echos around the Kennison Stadium complex, bouncing off the aluminum and off the facing of the school building east of the field. was dull-minded; by now the original thrill of the game was gone. To dramatize the point, the professor played a video of especially shocking blows delivered in college and pro football. "Football's the most violent sport," Leach says. Now he's calling it a career after 33 years on the Amherst campus. Former UMass football coach Dick MacPherson has died. He was a good guy and a great coach. Schwartz didn't know if Leach's system would work in the N.F.L., where they had bigger staffs, better players and a lot more time to prepare for whatever confusion the offense cooked up. A whisper of the old antipass bigotry can be heard in football's conventional wisdom: that a balanced offense means running as often as you pass; that you can't pass all that effectively unless you first establish a running game; that a running game is necessary to "control the clock"; that passing is inherently riskier than running because a pass might be intercepted and give the other team good field position. COACHING CAREER: Fresno State, 2012-13; Eastern Illinois, 2014-16; New Orleans Saints, 2017-. Hodges is already hard at work for the Saints, Hodges reportedly ran draft prospect interviews at the Senior Bowl, and should do so again at. tag_id.innerHTML = ''; Still, football's mixed feelings toward passing are ingrained. All have been conditioned to run much more than a football player normally does. The New Orleans Saints promoted assistant linebackers coach Michael Hodges to the full-time gig, but who is he? His 45-second pregame speech set a certain tempo, but he had one final thing to say: "Your body is your sword. He steals some glory from the guy who is born with advantages and uses them to become a champion. On another, a touchdown was nullified by a holding call on the receiver Robert Johnson far away from the action. Hodges started his last two years for the Aggies, leading the team in tackles as a senior in 2011. By the time he left the game, with 5 minutes to go, Cody Hodges had thrown 44 passes for 408 yards, a lot of them to Jarrett Hicks, who had 8 catches for 147 yards and 2 touchdowns, both on fade routes. Hodges spent the 2013 and 2014 seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Kent State, where he worked with the linebackers.