Matt Drinkall | |
Current Title: | Offensive line coach |
Current Team: | Army |
Current Conference: | AAC |
Coach Years1: | 2003–2005 |
Coach Team1: | Bettendorf HS (IA) (WR/DC) |
Coach Years2: | 2006–2007 |
Coach Team2: | Western Illinois (TE) |
Coach Years3: | 2008 |
Coach Team3: | St. Ambrose (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 2009 |
Coach Team4: | St. Ambrose (WR) |
Coach Years5: | 2010–2011 |
Coach Team5: | St. Ambrose (OL) |
Coach Years6: | 2012–2013 |
Coach Team6: | St. Ambrose (OC) |
Coach Years7: | 2014–2018 |
Coach Team7: | Kansas Wesleyan |
Coach Years8: | 2019 |
Coach Team8: | Army (OQC) |
Coach Years9: | 2020–2022 |
Coach Team9: | Army (TE) |
Coach Years10: | 2023 |
Coach Team10: | Army (co-OC/OL) |
Coach Years11: | 2024–present |
Coach Team11: | Army (OL) |
Overall Record: | 42–17 |
Tournament Record: | 2–2 (NAIA playoffs) |
Championships: | 1 KCAC (2018) |
Matt Drinkall is an American college football coach. He is the offensive line coach for the United States Military Academy. He is currently in his second year on staff, having spent the 2019 season as an offensive quality control coach.
He previously served as the head football coach of Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas, starting in January 2014.[1] He had worked previously as a football coach at the high school and college levels before being hired as head coach.[2] In 2015, Drinkall was the second-youngest head college football coach in the country behind Cornell's David Archer and took the Coyotes to the 2015 playoffs.[3]
On January 14, 2019, Drinkall announced his resignation of the head coaching position at Kansas Wesleyan to join the staff of the Army Black Knights as an offensive quality control coach.[4] He had compiled a 42–17 record as head coach. Drinkall has worked primarily on the offensive side of the ball.
Drinkall grew up in Bettendorf Iowa and attended Bettendorf High School where he played football and ran track.