Ricky Ciccone begins his first season on Head Coach Jimmy Rogers’ staff, serving as general manager for Cougar Football.
Ciccone spent the 2024 season as the director of player personnel at Louisiana, bringing a wealth of coaching and recruiting experience to Lafayette. In his lone season in Lafayette, the Ragin Cajuns went 10-4 and advanced to the New Mexico Bowl.
Ciccone spent the previous eight years at the University of Toledo in a number of positions, ending his tenure there as the director of player personnel/recruiting coordinator. Ciccone’s efforts in coordinating Toledo’s overall recruiting efforts have helped the Rockets gain the No. 1 recruiting class in the Mid-American Conference five times in the past seven years, according to 247Sports.com.
In 2018, Ciccone coached the nickel backs for the Rockets, as well as serving as the recruiting coordinator. In Ciccone’s first two years at Toledo, he served as the director of high school relations.
Prior to arriving at Toledo, Ciccone worked in a number of collegiate and high school positions in the state of Ohio, serving as the running backs coach at Ohio Dominican University in 2015.
Ciccone began his career as the running backs coach at Marietta College in 2006 before moving to the high school ranks, taking assistant’s positions at Marietta High School in 2009 and Tri-Valley in 2010.
In 2011, Ciccone assumed an assistant coaching position at Kenyon College, where he coached the defensive line and served as recruiting coordinator. He moved on to Bluffton, where he was the co-offensive coordinator, wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator from 2012-13. Ciccone coached four all-league receivers and return specialists for the Beavers, who set a school-record for conference wins (5) in 2012.
Ciccone returned to the high school coaching ranks in 2014 as the tight ends/slot receivers coach and special teams coordinator at Olentangy High School, helping the Braves earn a 10-0 regular-season record and a trip to the Division II state semifinals.
A native of Coshocton, Ohio, Ciccone attended the University of Mount Union where he played football from 2001-04. Ciccone was a second-team All-OAC running back as a senior in 2004. He was a member of teams that won Division III national championships in 2001 and 2002.
Ciccone earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Mount Union in 2005 and his master’s degree in education from Marietta in 2008. He and his wife Tessa have twins (son, Luca and a daughter, Harper), and a daughter, Lillian.
