Greg Goff

Greg Goff

Title: Head Coach
Phone: 910-893-1354
Email: goffg@campbell.edu

After guiding Campbell to its most wins in nearly a decade last season, Greg Goff enters his fifth season as head baseball coach at Campbell University.

Campbell has set 43 different school or individual records over the last three years, including 19 during last season alone, including: stolen bases (119), hits (696), doubles (159) and fewest walks allowed (3.73/game). Last season, the program also registered back to back winning seasons for the first time since 2001, and the program's most wins (28) in nine years.

Last season also saw wins over nationally ranked East Carolina and perennial in-state power NC State at Taylor Field, pushing Goff's record against Tar Heel State competition to 22-7.

In his second campaign, Goff continued his rebuilding of the Campbell baseball program as he led the Fighting Camels to their first winning season since 2001.  The 27 wins set by the 2009 squad was the most victories since the school record was set in 2001 with 33 and the mark sits tied for sixth in the Campbell record books.  Coach Goff also piloted one of the most offensively gifted teams in Campbell history as the Fighting Camels were Atlantic Sun best in five offensive categories and Campbell was represented by three different players were listed 1-2-3 as the best hitters by average in the Atlantic Sun. 

The Fighting Camels were also listed well in the NCAA offensive rankings as the Fighting Camels were ranked in the top 50 in ten offensive categories as well as 15 players ranked in the top 50 in nine offensive categories. 

In his inaugural season at the helm of the Fighting Camels, Goff led the team to the most wins since 2005 and registered one of the greatest turnarounds of the year in Division I. His 2008 squad set five new team or individual records, while ranking in the top 43 nationally in five different offensive categories.  The Camels 21-win season was a 10-win increase over 2007, and posted the most wins verse Atlantic Sun Conference opponents since 2001, with 14.  The postseason run to the A-Sun Tournament semi-finals was the program's first third round appearance since 2000.

Goff's 228 victories in seven years as a head coach gave him an average of just under 33 wins per season.

He was introduced as the head baseball coach at Campbell University on May 30, 2007.

Goff, who also had stops as the pitching coach at the University of Kentucky, Southeast Missouri, and Delta State, is a collegiate coaching veteran. The native of Jackson, Tenn., has coached 57 all-conference players, 23 all-region players, 10 All-Americans, three conference player-of-the-year honorees, two national players-of-the-year, and 35 players who have gone on to play professional baseball, including two from his 2008 squad at CU.  Goff has also had six former players reach the big leagues, and has enjoyed three trips to the College World Series in his career.

In his four years prior to Campbell, Goff guided Montevallo to 152-84 (.644) record, including a 90-35 (.720) mark over the final two seasons. His 2006 Falcons won the South Central Region championship and advanced to the Division II College World Series after setting a school record for wins. In 2007, Montevallo again reached the South Central regional championship game and broke the one-year old school victories mark.

Under Goff's guidance, Montevallo progressed from 26 victories in his first year (2004) to 36, then 43 and a school-record 47 in 2007. The 2006 ABCA South Central Region Coach of the Year, Goff's squad was ranked third in the final 2006 Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division II poll after reaching the College World Series for the first time in the program's history. He was also recognized by the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association as its Coach of the Year for all divisions.

In four seasons at Kentucky, Goff helped guide the collegiate careers of future Major League baseball hurlers Brandon Webb and Joe Blanton. An eighth round choice in 2000 by the Arizona Diamondbacks, Webb won the 2006 National League Cy Young Award after winning 16 games and compiling a 3.10 earned run average. Blanton was a first-round selection of the Oakland Athletics in 2002, who reached the team's starting rotation three years later.

While working under 25-year Kentucky skipper Keith Madison, Goff also coached 2003 New York Yankees 16th-round selection Heath Castle, Major Leaguer Andy Green, and former Olympic Team USA player John Wilson.

Goff began his coaching career in the fall of 1993 at his alma mater Delta State. In his four years at DSU, the team reached the Division II College World Series twice (1994 and 1996). He went on to spend two years at Southeast Missouri State (1998-99), where he coached All-American and Toronto Blue Jays draft choice Ryan Spille.

He pitched on both the junior college and senior college levels, while earning his Associate's degree from Jackson (Tenn.) State Community College (1991) and his Bachelor of Science in education from Delta State (1994). Goff also earned a Master of Education degree from Delta State in 1996.

The 39-year-old Goff is married to the former Tina Newbill of Jackson, Tenn. They have three daughters - Kara (10), Kiley (8) and Kolby (4).

Greg Goff Career Record (7 seasons)
228-172 (.570)
32.6 wins per year

 

Greg Goff  vs.  Ranked Opponents  

Date 

Opponent 

Result 

April 2, 2008

@ No. 24 East Carolina 

L 11-2 

April 9, 2008

@ No. 22 UNC Wilmington 

W 8-6 

May 2, 2008

@ No. 18 NC State 

L 8-2 

May 9, 2008

vs. No. 17 NC State

L 6-3

March 24, 2009

vs. No. 19 East Carolina

L 10-9

April 14, 2009

@ No. 17 East Carolina

W 12-8

April 20, 2010

vs. No. 21 East Carolina

W 12-5