Texas A&M University-Commerce head football coach Guy Morriss announced recently five members of his coaching staff. Four of them are on the offensive side of the ball and another to join Randy Wilkins on the defensive side of the ball.

Jack Peavey, who will serve as the assistant head coach and offensive line coach, comes to A&M-Commerce with experience as a former head coach (Southwest Baptist University, William Paterson University), an offensive coordinator (Mississippi College, Millsaps College) and a position coach (Alabama State University, University of Arkansas, Brown University, Jacksonville State University, Millersville University and University of Rhode Island). As a high school coach at Bishop Feehan in Attleboro, Massachusetts, he advanced to four-consecutive state championship games, winning three in a row and posting a 44-4-2 record in a four-year span.

Peavey was also a successful student athlete, where he earned multiple honors and went on to play in the National Football League with the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos.

He has been involved with 13 different football programs as a player and as a coach, nine of those have played for state titles, ranked nationally, played in the post season, won conference titles, received bowl invitations, played for or won national titles as well as played in the Super Bowl.

Peavey has been involved in all phases of the game including offense, defense and special teams, as well as the academic and strength and conditioning of student-athletes.

Next, Dan Lounsbury, who will serve as the offensive coordinator, returns to A&M-Commerce after being a coach on both the professional and collegiate level.

After serving as a graduate assistant at A&M-Commerce, he went to coach on the professional level, he has worked with the New York/New Jersey Knights of the World League of American Football, the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and the Shreveport Knights of the Regional Football League. In addition, on the collegiate level, he has worked at Texas, TCU, Tulsa, Purdue, Cortland State, Southeastern Oklahoma State and Texas A&M-Commerce.

As a position coach, he has worked with multiple parts of the offense, including quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers. Lounsbury was a graduate assistant at A&M-Commerce in 1979 and is reunited with Coach Morriss, where he coached the tight ends and slots at the University of Kentucky from 1999 to 2000.

A native of Watertown, New York, Lounsbury and his wife, Lea, have three children: Dan, Tim and Leslie. He earned his bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Arkansas.

Coming along with Loundsbury from Cortland State will be wide receivers coach Pierre Ingram. Over the last two years, at SUNY-Cortland, Ingram worked with the wide receivers, assisted with strength and conditioning as well as the recruiting of high school and served as an operations assistant. He also was involved with the recruitment of high school and junior college players. One of his players - Zacc Guaragno - recorded 1,053 yards receiving for only the second player in school history to record 1,000 receiving yards. Guargano was one of four all-NJAC selections that was coached by Ingram.

Prior to joining the staff at SUNY-Cortland, he entered the coaching ranks as a volunteer assistant coach at Middle Tennessee Christian School. Ingram was a four-year letterwinner at Middle Tennessee State University, where he played on special teams units and as a wide receiver. He earned the program's Most Dependable Receiver Award as a senior and twice was selected as the Best Conditioned Athlete. He also participated on the Blue Raiders' track and field team. He is a 2002 graduate of Stockbridge High School, where he was a four-year, three-sport letterwinner. He was a two-time all-region selection in football and won a state title in the high jump as a senior.

Joining the staff as the running backs coach will be Nick Myatt, who spent the last two years as an assistant football coach at Waco ISD. Prior to that, he played two years on the football team at Baylor University. For the Bears, he saw action on special teams units as a long snapper. He earned Academic All-Big 12 honors and was intrumental in the Bears' 34-31 win over Colorado as a senior.

Prior to attending Baylor, Myatt spent two years at Howard College. where he spent two years as a member of the baseball team and he was a pitcher. At Waco High School, he earned all-state honors in baseball and was a team captain in football.

On the defensive side of the ball, Brian Williams, who will serve as the defensive coordinator, comes to A&M-Commerce after serving as both a linebackers and special teams coach at BCS-level programs including Ohio State, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati and other Division I programs including Akron and Fresno State. He has also coached at Alabama State, Kentucky State and Morehead State on the FCS level. 

He has served as an associate head coach at the University of Akron and the assistant head coach, most recently, at Alabama State. While at Alabama State, he worked alongside Peavey in 2007.

In addition, Williams has recruited and developed student-athletes from throughout the nation, including the state of Texas.

As a senior at the University of Kentucky in 1985, he earned second team all-Southeastern Conference recognition and the team's Most Valuable Senior Award. He also was a two-time program Outstanding Defensive Lineman of the Year selection.