Dave Emerick - Football Coach - Mississippi State

Dave Emerick

Title:
Senior Associate A.D./Football
Email:
demerick@athletics.msstate.edu
Phone:
325-3470

Dave Emerick, who worked with head coach Mike Leach at both Washington State and Texas Tech, serves as the Bulldogs’ senior associate athletics director for football.

Emerick camed to Starkville following an eight-year stint at Washington State where he served as Leach’s chief of staff and senior associate athletics director, a position similar to what Emerick held while he and Leach were at Texas Tech.

Emerick oversees all of MSU’s football recruiting efforts, while also working closely with senior administration as it relates to the program.

A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Emerick joined WSU’s staff in 2012 and was promoted to senior associate athletics director/chief of staff for football prior to the 2013 season. Emerick spent the 2010-11 seasons at the University of Arizona, where he oversaw Arizona’s recruiting efforts as assistant director of operations and director of on-campus recruiting.

Emerick joined the Arizona football staff in February 2010 after six years working with Leach at Texas Tech. During his final two years in Lubbock he was chief of staff and assistant athletics director, overseeing recruiting for the football program and assisting in the organization and execution of football camps.

Additionally, Emerick served as the liaison between the football program and the Texas Tech Athletic Department, specifically in academics, compliance, media relations and marketing. Emerick began at Texas Tech in 2004 as unit coordinator during his first season and director of player personnel his next three seasons, before assuming the chief of staff position.

A 2002 political science graduate of Kentucky, Emerick was a college scouting intern with the Houston Texans during the franchise’s first season in 2002. Prior to his time with the Texans, he was the recruiting and football operations intern at Kentucky while in school from 1997-2001.

Emerick is a graduate of Catholic Memorial High School in his hometown of Waukesha where he lettered in football, basketball and baseball. He received his master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis in sport management in May 2007 from Texas Tech. He and his wife, Sara, have one son, Cristian and one daughter, Caroline.