Matt Moran - Football Coach - James Madison University Athletics

Matt Moran

Title:
Assistant Special Teams
Phone:
540-568-6517

Matt Moran is in his first season with the James Madison football program in 2024, as he serves as the assistant special teams coach, as well as coaching the specialists.

Moran joins the Dukes after spending the 2023 season as special teams analyst and specialists coach at Boston College. The Eagles blocked a pair of kicks this past season and won the Wasabi Fenway Bowl over SMU to cap off a 7-6 season. BC’s field goal percentage improved from 57% to 83% while Moran was working with BC special teams.

Prior to BC, Moran spent eight seasons on the staff at Stanford as assistant special teams coordinator (2015-22), winning the 2015 Rose Bowl & Pac-12 Championship. After serving as special teams graduate assistant, he was promoted to assistant special teams coordinator and was a part of the 2016 and 2018 Sun Bowl victories and the 2017 Alamo Bowl.

While at Stanford, Moran worked with numerous All Pac-12 & NFL specialists, including future Dolphins and Patriots First Team All-Pro punter Jake Bailey, a fifth-round draft pick in 2019, as well as LA Rams kicker Joshua Karty, a sixth-round draft pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.

Karty is the all-time leader in field-goal percentage in Stanford football history. Both players were also Reese’s Senior Bowl selections. Christian McCaffrey also earned the 2015 Johnny “The Jet” Rodgers Award, as the top return specialist in college football. Moran also worked with NFL Combine invitees kicker Conrad Ukropina & punter Ryan Sanborn, who was in camp with the 2024 Atlanta Falcons.

Moran came to Stanford from Rutgers, where he was defensive quality control assistant with the defensive backs during the spring of 2015.

Prior to his stop with the Scarlet Knights, he served on staff at Albright College (Pa.) as running backs coach and assistant special teams coordinator for the 2013 and 2014 seasons, leading Albright to a postseason bowl game in each season. Albright blocked nine kicks in 2014, and Malik Gilmore was named an All-America special teams performer for his four blocked kicks.

Moran graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and attended the Master of Liberal Arts graduate program at Stanford University.

He was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter for the Polar Bears, earning 2009 NESCAC Academic All-Conference honors. While at Bowdoin, he played receiver, free safety, punt and kick returner and rotated at quarterback.