University of Delaware Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Running Backs
- Email:
- xdye@udel.edu
Dye joins the Blue Hens after spending the 2023-24 seasons as the running backs coach at Coastal Carolina. In 2024, their two leading running backs combined for 1,318 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns, while Bennett earned All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention honors. In his first season, the Chanticleer running backs averaged 100 yards rushing per game and ran for 12 touchdowns. Coastal Carolina went 14-12 in his two seasons, including winning the 2023 EasyPost Hawai'i Bowl.
Prior to Coastal, Dye spent three years on staff at South Florida from 2020-22, where he coached the wide receivers in 2020 and the tight ends group in 2021-22. He also served as the recruiting coordinator for his last two seasons in Tampa.
He went to USF after serving as the wide receivers coach at West Virginia during the 2019 season.
A native of Greenwood, S.C., Dye served as an offensive graduate assistant coach working with the receiving corps for two years at Clemson from 2017-18, which included future NFL wideouts Tee Higgins, Justyn Ross and Hunter Renfrow. Over those two years, the Tigers posted a 27-2 record, won two ACC championships, and made two College Football Playoff appearances, including winning the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship.
Prior to his return to Clemson, Dye served as offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Woodmont High School, helping lead the Wildcats to an appearance in the 2016 South Carolina 5A playoffs. He also spent two years at Greenville High School, serving the first year in 2014 as the wide receivers coach before adding offensive coordinator duties in 2015.
Dye began his coaching career in 2013 at Western Carolina as a defensive quality control coach and an academic counselor.
A dean’s list student at Clemson, Dye played wide receiver for the Tigers from 2007-10 and earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology. A two-year starter (2009-10), he had a receiving touchdown from a quarterback (Kyle Parker), wide receiver (Jacoby Ford), and running back (C.J. Spiller) in 2009, becoming the first Tiger with a receiving touchdown from three different players in the same year, from three different positions.
While a student-athlete at Clemson, Dye was active in community service events and earned on spot on the American Football Coaches Association’s (AFCA) Allstate Good Works Team as well as being named a finalist for the John Wooden Award. He was selected for the FCA Spiritual Award and served as a keynote speaker at numerous functions.
Dye and his wife Kelsye have two daughters, Xara and Xendaya.
