| Buddy Stephens | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | East Mississippi |
| Current Conference: | MACJC |
| Current Record: | 143–24 |
| Birth Date: | 6 September 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | ? |
| Player Team1: | Delta State |
| Player Positions: | Offensive lineman |
| Coach Years1: | 2001–2007 |
| Coach Team1: | Pearl River (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 2008–present |
| Coach Team2: | East Mississippi |
| Overall Record: | 143–24 |
| Bowl Record: | 7–0 |
| Championships: | 5 NJCAA National (2011, 2013–2014, 2017–2018) 9 MACJC/MACCC (2009, 2011, 2013–2014, 2016–2018, 2022–2023) 12 MACJC/MACCC North Division (2008–2009, 2011–2018, 2021, 2023) |
Wofford Oran "Buddy" Stephens Jr. is an American junior college football coach. He is the head football coach at East Mississippi Community College,[1] where he has won five NJCAA National Football Championships and coached future National Football League (NFL) players such as Chad Kelly, Jarran Reed and Dakota Allen.
Stephens is known as the head coach from the first two seasons of the Netflix series Last Chance U. He has won more games at EMCC than any other coach in history.