Cornelius Williams Added to Troy Football Staff

TROY, Alabama – Cornelius Williams, who won four Sun Belt championships and helped lead Troy to three bowl games, returns to his alma mater as an offensive assistant coach, head coach Neal Brown announced Friday.

"Cornelius is a winner and we are excited and proud to welcome him back home to Troy," Brown said. "He won multiple state championships at Hoover High School and Sun Belt championships every year he played for Troy. Adding Cornelius to our staff has been in the plans from the beginning. It is important for us to interject our staff with former Troy players and guys who know how to win, and Cornelius fits both of those molds."

Brown, who was an assistant coach at Troy from 2006-09, coached Williams throughout his career at Troy. Williams was a four-year letterman for the Trojans and helped lead Troy to a combined 26-3 Sun Belt Conference record. He finished his Trojan career with 63 receptions for 764 yards and seven touchdowns.

Williams makes his return to Troy after spending the past two seasons as the wide receivers coach on Bill Clark's staffs at UAB (2014) and Jacksonville State (2013).

"I'm excited to get back to Troy and coach at my alma mater with Coach Brown," Williams said. "We played with an edge and with a lot of confidence each and every week and that's how we were successful. That's what we're going to do to bring championships back to Troy football."

UAB averaged 33.2 points and 431.8 yards of total offence in Williams' lone season coaching the Blazers, both totals were good for fourth in the offense-heavy Conference USA. Williams and the Jacksonville State offense had similar success as the Gamecocks averaged 442.5 yards of total offense and 35.2 points per game, good for second in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Williams helped orchestrate a monumental turnaround at Jacksonville State as the Gamecocks went from a 6-5 team prior to his arrival to advancing to the FCS Quarterfinals. The Gamecocks, who upset No. 6 McNeese State in the second round of the playoffs, finished the season 11-4 and ranked No. 10 in the final The Sports Network FCS Top 25 Poll.

Prior to Jacksonville State, Williams coached the wide receivers at North Alabama in 2012 and Murray State in 2011. In 2011, Murray State led the Ohio Valley Conference in scoring offense at 37.1 points per game, total offense with 460.9 yards per game and passing offense with 308.6 yards per game.

Williams was an offensive graduate assistant coach at South Alabama in 2010, while Clark ran the South Alabama defense. In his only season with the Jaguars, he was part of a South Alabama offense that finished with a perfect 10-0 record and averaged 439 yards and 41.3 points per game.

A standout at Hoover High School, Williams helped lead the Buccaneers to four consecutive Alabama 6A state championships and a combined 56-3 record. He was named all-state his senior year after setting a school record with 77 receptions for 1,300 yards and 18 touchdowns. He was selected to play in the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Game and was ranked 16th in The Birmingham News' Super Seniors.

Williams graduated from Troy University in 2010 with a degree in sport and fitness management. He is married to the former Kiley Miller from Little Rock, Ark., and the couple has one daughter, Ellis.

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