{"id":115832,"date":"2026-01-13T01:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115832\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:40:14","slug":"report-missouri-hires-former-florida-state-lsu-assistant-alex-atkins-as-te-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115832\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Missouri hires former Florida State, LSU assistant Alex Atkins as TE coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri<\/a> is hiring Alex Atkins<\/a> to be its next tight ends coach, per ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel.<\/a> Atkins coached tight ends at LSU<\/a> last season and served as the team\u2019s interim offensive coordinator after the school fired head coach Brian Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before coaching at LSU, Atkins spent five seasons on Florida State<\/a>\u2018s staff. During his first two seasons with the Seminoles, Atkins coached the team\u2019s offensive linemen.<\/p>\n

However, ahead of the 2022 campaign, Atkins was promoted to offensive coordinator. He spent three seasons as the Seminoles\u2019 play-caller.<\/p>\n

He was instrumental in the Seminoles\u2019 flawless regular-season record and ACC title in the 2023 season. The Seminoles averaged 34.6 points per game that season, the most in the ACC.<\/p>\n

Florida State fired Atkins, along with multiple other members of its staff, after the team posted a disappointing 2-10 record in 2024. Atkins has served on coaching staffs at Charlotte<\/a>, Tulane<\/a>, Georgia Southern<\/a> and Chattanooga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before entering the coaching realm, Alex Atkins was an offensive lineman at UT-Martin from 2003-06. He started each of his four years with the program and earned all-conference honors twice.<\/p>\n

Now, Atkins will look to use his wealth of knowledge to help Missouri reach new heights. Missouri finished the 2025 campaign with an 8-5 overall record and a 4-4 mark in conference play.<\/p>\n

It was a step backward for the Tigers, who\u2019d recorded double-digit wins the previous two seasons. Head coach\u00a0Eli Drinkwitz<\/a>\u00a0is determined to see his team bounce back in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing good comes easy,\u201d Drinkwitz said after Missouri\u2019s loss to Virginia<\/a> in the Gator Bowl. \u201cIt will be a fight to the finish here, a fight to finish off re-signing our team, then we\u2019ll go to work. That\u2019s what we\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, and I know, the fans are disappointed. I\u2019m disappointed. I know that locker room\u2019s disappointed. That\u2019s a good thing. That\u2019s a good thing when Missouri is disappointed after a season like this. That\u2019s where we want to be. That\u2019s what we got to be. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to continue to fight to uphold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Missouri is hiring Alex Atkins to be its next tight ends coach, per ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel. Atkins coached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-115832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}