Steve Logan

Steve Logan (born February 3, 1953) is an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the Louisville Kings of the United Football League (UFL). Logan was the head football coach at East Carolina University from 1992 to 2002, compiling a record of 69–58.

Early life Logan was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He attended Broken Arrow High School where he lettered in football, basketball and track. Logan was recruited by coach Bud Elliott to play football at Emporia State University, a Division II school in Emporia, Kansas. He played one season as a defensive back for the Hornets before deciding to end his playing career. Logan then transferred to the University of Tulsa, planning to pursue a career in college teaching. After graduating in 1975, he was hired as a physical education teacher and assistant football coach at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He then spent the next two years as head football coach at Hutchinson Community College, a junior college in Hutchinson, Kansas. In his second year there, Logan was named the Kansas Jayhawk Conference Coach of the Year after guiding the team to a 6–4 record. In 1983, he returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach for head coach John Cooper. After two seasons on Bill McCartney's staff, he was hired as the quarterbacks coach at Mississippi State University in 1987. The following year, Berlin again finished the regular season in first place with a record of 7–3, but fell to the Amsterdam Admirals in World Bowl XIII, 27–21. In 2006, he served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Rhein Fire. Logan helped Dave Ragone (2004) and Rohan Davey (2005) earn Offensive Player of the Year and All-NFL Europe honors.

Boston College Logan rejoined former assistant Jeff Jagodzinski as offensive coordinator at Boston College in 2007. He helped develop quarterback Matt Ryan, who would win the ACC Player of the Year, the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, the Manning Award and was named the AP NFL Rookie of the Year.

In January 2009, Jagodzinski got fired after interviewing for the New York Jets head coaching vacancy. Logan was considered a candidate to replace him, and interviewed for the job with Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo. After the school had promoted defensive coordinator Frank Spaziani to the head coaching position, Logan decided to leave the program.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Logan was hired as the running backs coach for the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers on February 11, 2009, reuniting him with Jagodzinski, the team's offensive coordinator. After Jagodzinski's firing in September 2009, Logan remained on the Buccaneers staff. After the Buccaneers 4–12 record in the 2011 season, Raheem Morris and his entire coaching were fired.

WRAL analyst During 2013–2014 Logan worked as a special guest football analyst in a "cross divisional programming lineup" with multiple TV and Radio channels associated with WRAL-TV out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Logan would provide predictions and analysis focused specifically on college teams in the WRAL market (UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State, Duke and East Carolina) and the Carolina Panthers of the NFL. WRAL-TV Sports Anchor, Jeff Gravely served as host of the TV segments. Logan would also be featured in front of a telestrator in a segment called "Coaching 101". In these segments he would explain the strategy behind common football plays, formations, and other elements of the game.

San Francisco 49ers On January 28, 2015, it was reported Logan agreed to be the quarterbacks coach of the San Francisco 49ers. However, after just one season, he was relieved of his duties due to the firing of Jim Tomsula and hiring of Chip Kelly.

Birmingham Iron In 2018, Logan became the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football.

Personal life Logan and his wife, Laura, have two sons, Vince and Nate.