Running Backs Coach
NFL Experience: 1
Years with Buccaneers: 1
Steve Logan enters his first season as Tampa Bay’s running backs coach after spending the past two seasons (2007-2008) at Boston College as the offensive coordinator, serving under current Buccaneers offensive coordinator and former Eagles head coach Jeff Jagodzinski.Logan guided an Eagles offense in 2008 that helped Boston College earn a 9-5 record with appearances in the ACC Championship Game and the Music City Bowl. In 2007, Logan’s offense, led by ACC Player of the Year and Atlanta Falcons’ first-round draft choice QB Matt Ryan, led the ACC in total offense and passing offense and finished third in scoring offense. Ryan completed 388-of-654 passes for 4,507 yards and 31 touchdowns, setting new Boston College single-season records for completions, yards and touchdowns and ACC records in completions and yardage.
Logan joined the Boston College staff after two seasons (2004-2005) as quarterbacks and wide receivers coach with the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe and one season (2006) as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach with the Rhein Fire. Logan helped Dave Ragone (2004) and Rohan Davey (2005) earn Offensive Player of the Year and All-NFL Europe honors.
Prior to his stint in NFL Europe, Logan served as the head coach of East Carolina from 1992-2002. He became the school’s all-time winningest coach (69-58), and led the Pirates to five bowl games, including the 1994 St. Jude Liberty Bowl, the 1995 St. Jude Liberty Bowl, the 1999 Mobile Alabama Bowl, the 2000 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl, and the 2001 GMAC Bowl. Logan led the 1995 team to a 9-3 record and a No. 23 ranking in the final Associated Press poll.
Logan is widely regarded as an offensive architect, and began implementing his system as co-offensive coordinator for ECU in 1990 and 1991. The 1991 team finished 11-1, reached a Top-10 national ranking and defeated North Carolina State in the Peach Bowl.
Logan began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1974. In 1980, he became the tight ends coach at Oklahoma State under head coach Jimmy Johnson. He moved to Hutchinson Junior College for two years before taking the reigns as offensive coordinator at Tulsa under John Cooper from 1983-1984. Logan headed for Colorado in 1985, coaching the Buffalo running backs for two years before coaching the quarterbacks at Mississippi State from 1987-1989.
Logan, a 1975 graduate of Tulsa, developed much of his coaching philosophy through the influence of several head coaches. He worked with former Ohio State coach John Cooper at Tulsa, former Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson at Oklahoma State, former Colorado coach Bill McCartney, and with Bill Lewis at East Carolina.
Logan and his wife, Laura, are the parents of two sons, Vincent and Nathanael.
LOGAN AT A GLANCE
- 1974-79...Union High School (Okla.), Assistant Coach
- 1980...Oklahoma State, Tight Ends Coach
- 1981-82...Hutchinson Junior College, Head Coach
- 1983-84...Tulsa, Offensive Coordinator
- 1985-86...Colorado, Running Backs Coach
- 1987-88...Mississippi State, Quarterbacks Coach
- 1989...East Carolina University, Running Backs Coach
- 1990-91...East Carolina University, Co-Offensive Coordinator
- 1992-2002...East Carolina University, Head Coach
- 2004-05...Berlin Thunder (NFL Europe), Quarterbacks/Wide Receivers Coach
- 2006...Rhein Fire (NFL Europe), Offensive Coordinator
- 2007-08...Boston College, Offensive Coordinator
- 2009...Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Running Backs Coach
