Coaches
Sam Washington
His career from Wikipedia, each job checked against the team-season pages (✓ = a second source agrees, ≠ = they disagree)
Sam Washington
Played at Mississippi Valley State
Source: Wikipedia, read 2026-10-28
| Years | Team | Role | Title | Head coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-1991 | Bethune-Cookman | Position | Defensive backs coach | not known |
| 1992 | Johnson C. Smith | DC | Assistant head coach, defensive coordinator, special teams coordinator, defensive backs coach | not known |
| 1993-2000 | North Carolina Central | DC | Assistant head coach, defensive coordinator | not known |
| 2001 | North Carolina A&T | ST coord. | Special teams coordinator | not known |
| 2002-2006 | Mississippi Valley State | DC | Assistant head coach, defensive coordinator, defensive backs coach | not known |
| 2007-2010 | Grambling | Position | Defensive backs coach | not known |
| 2011-2017 | North Carolina A&T | DC | Defensive coordinator | not known |
| 2018-2022 | North Carolina A&T | Head coach | Head coach✓ | himself |
Record
Confirmed coordinator seasons since 2005. FBS rankings
| Season | Team | Job | EPA/play | Points/poss. | Success | Year before | Teams |
|---|
| Season | Head coach at | Record | AP before → after | Off EPA/play | Def EPA/play | SP+ | Team year before | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | North Carolina A&T (FCS) | 10-2 | - → - | - | - | - | 100% wins | - |
| 2019 | North Carolina A&T (FCS) | 9-3 | - → - | - | - | - | 83% wins | - |
| 2021 | North Carolina A&T (FCS) | 5-6 | - → - | 21 | 75 | - | - | 128 |
| 2022 | North Carolina A&T (FCS) | 7-4 | - → - | 76 | 25 | - | 46% wins | 130 |
Worked under
None found (his assistant years may be outside the FBS seasons we hold).
His tree
Coaches who were on his staffs
No one on his staffs among the coaches we hold.
Coached together
- Willie Martinez · Bethune-Cookman 1988 · him Position, them Position
- Kienus Boulware · North Carolina Central 1999-2000 · him DC, Other, them Position
- Shawn Gibbs · Grambling 2007-2010 · him Position, them Position
- Trei Oliver · Grambling 2007-2010 · him Position, them Other, Position, ST coord.
- Shawn Gibbs · North Carolina A&T 2011-2021 · him DC, Head coach, them Position
- Trei Oliver · North Carolina A&T 2011-2015 · him DC, them Other, Position
- Rickey Bustle · North Carolina A&T 2013-2014 · him DC, them OC, Position
- Chris Barnette · North Carolina A&T 2021-2022 · him Head coach, them OC
- Courtney Coard · North Carolina A&T 2021 · him Head coach, them DC