1. Joker Phillips is the assistant head football coach and wide receivers coach at North Carolina State University, a position he has held since the 2021 season.
12 Facts About Joker Phillips
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Joker Phillips later played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
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Joker Phillips succeeded Urban Meyer as wide receivers coach at Notre Dame.
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When Rich Brooks was hired as head football coach at Kentucky in late 2002, Joker Phillips returned to his alma mater to serve as recruiting coordinator and wide receivers coach.
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In January 2008, Joker Phillips was named as Brooks' successor, and his title was changed to "head coach of the offense".
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Joker Phillips was named head coach of the Wildcats on January 4,2010, after Brooks' retirement.
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Joker Phillips was the second African-American head football coach in the SEC, after former Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom.
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Joker Phillips was the third African-American head coach of a major sport at Kentucky; the first was Bernadette Maddox, who coached the women's basketball team from 1995 to 2003, and the second was Tubby Smith, who coached men's basketball from 1997 to 2007.
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On December 3,2012, Joker Phillips was hired by the University of Florida as wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator.
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Joker Phillips was not retained for the next season, when Hue Jackson replaced Pettine as head coach.
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Joker Phillips returned to the University of Cincinnati in 2017 to coach Wide Receivers, a position he held through the 2018 season.
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Joker Phillips was married to Leslie Stamatis, associate professor of kinesiology at Georgetown College in Kentucky, from 1999 through 2017 when they divorced.