Ed Foley - Football Coach

Ed Foley

Title:
Assistant Head Coach / Tight Ends Coach
Email:
edfoley@temple.edu
Phone:
215-204-4694
Alma Mater:
Bucknell '89

Ed Foley is in his 12th season at Temple making him the longest tenured member of the staff. He was one of four coaches retained by Rod Carey, making Carey the fifth Owls' head coach that Foley had worked under.

Foley has had numerous roles with the Owls including three stints as interim head coach. He led the Owls in the 2016 Military Bowl and the 2018 Independence Bowl becoming the first Temple head coach to lead the Owls in multiple bowl games.

He spent the 2018 season as the assistant head coach offense / special teams coordinator / tight ends coach. Temple special teams have been among the best in the country under Foley and 2018 was no different. The Owls blocked five kicks and scored six special teams touchdowns. RS Isaiah Wright was the first player in school history to record a punt and kickoff return touchdown in consecutive seasons and was named first-team All-American by the Sporting News and American Athletic Conference Special Teams Player of the Year. His two leading tight ends also combined for 23 catches, 279 yards, two touchdowns, and a two point conversion.

In 2016, Foley helped mentor freshman kicker Aaron Boumerhi to second-team all-conference honors after being substituted for Austin Jones when he went down with an ACL injury at Memphis. With a combined 21-of-25 on the season for Jones and Boumerhi, Temple’s kickers ranked at the top of the conference in FG percentage. Also, as a tight end coach, he helped Colin Thompson earn honorable mention all-conference.

In 2015, he made an immediate impact on special teams in his first year as the coordinator. Temple blocked an NCAA leading seven kicks, Jahad Thomas tied a team record with a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, and Austin Jones set the school record for field goals made (23) and points by a kicker (113).

In 2013, Foley helped develop former QB Chris Coyer into a tight end. That progress was hindered due to nagging injuries but Coyer closed out his senior campaign with 129 receiving yards and a TD in the season finale.

In 2010, Foley’s tight ends and offensive line helped the team to an 8-4 regular-season record. The Owls recorded back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 1978-79. A school record six offensive players earned All-MAC accolades, including first-team honorees TE Evan Rodriguez, OL Colin Madison, and OL Darius Morris. Madison and Morris became the first repeat first-team All-MAC recipients in school history.

In 2009, the tight ends and offensive line helped TU win a single-season record nine consecutive games en route to a 9-4 overall record and a first-place tie in the MAC East. Five offensive players were named All-MAC, including senior TE Steve Maneri and four linemen. Juniors Colin Madison and Darius Morris earned First Team accolades.

In his first season with the Owls in 2008, Foley helped Temple to its most wins in nearly two decades. The Owls out-scored their opponents for the season for the first time since 1990. Foley also helped Temple bring in its fourth highly-touted recruiting class with Al Golden being the head coach.

A native of Cherry Hill, NJ, Foley returned to the City of Brotherly Love after spending two seasons at Hofstra as the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator, and offensive line coach. The Pride offense blossomed under Foley in his first year as coordinator, increasing its yardage total from 269 to 388 yards per contest from the previous year. The Pride’s scoring output also increased from 16.8 to 26.9 points per game. Foley also brought balance to the Pride attack as Hofstra’s rushing total was its highest since 2000 (145 yards/game) and its passing attack netted 243 yards per contest. Charles Sullivan left as the all-time leader in receptions and yards after catching 86 balls for 991 yards under Foley’s tutelage.

Prior to joining the Pride, Foley served seven years at Fordham University, including two seasons as head coach from 2004-05. After a 5-6 record in 2004, a season in which the Rams dropped four games by a touchdown or less, Fordham slipped to a 2-9 mark in 2005. As Fordham’s offensive coordinator and offensive line coach from 1999 through 2003, Foley helped rejuvenate a program that rose to the top of the Patriot League in 2002, when it won its first-ever league title with a 10-3 record. In 2003, the Rams compiled a 9-3 overall record and had 12 players named to the All-Patriot League Team, including six members on the offense, four of whom were named to the first team.

Under Foley’s guidance, the Fordham offense set numerous team and individual records. The Rams set a team record for most rushing yards in a season in 2003, gaining 1,657 yards, while also setting a school record for most pass completions in a season with 255. In 2002, Fordham led the Patriot League in passing offense and scoring offense, while finishing second in total offense, setting a team record for most points in a season. In addition to winning the Patriot League title that season, the Rams advanced to the NCAA I-AA Playoffs, where they defeated Northeastern University in the first round.

In 2001, Foley helped the Fordham offense develop its first 1,000-yard rusher on the NCAA Division I-AA level, as well as the first-ever 1,000-yard receiver in Fordham’s history. The Rams had the second-ranked passing offense in the Patriot League in 2001 as well as the second-best scoring offense. In 2000, Foley’s offense established a running game that generated 1,635 yards (an average of 148.6 per game), the most for a Fordham team on the I-AA level until the 2003 team gained 1,657.

Foley arrived at Fordham after spending the 1998 season as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Jacksonville University, which sponsored a football team that year for the first time in the school’s history. Foley helped lead the Dolphins to a 4-5 record during their inaugural season, as the offense scored 271 points in nine games (30.1 ppg). The Dolphin attack averaged 380 yards per game, a perfectly balanced 190 yards rushing and passing per game.

Foley also served as an assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1993, and again from 1995 to 1997, spending the 1994 season as an assistant at Williams College. At Penn, Foley coached the tight ends and tackles for five years and helped the Quakers to a perfect 10-0 record in 1993, when they also won the Ivy League Championship. Prior to his stint at Penn, Foley served as the offensive line coach at the State University of New York (SUNY) - Albany for two years.

Foley was a three-year starter at Bucknell University, playing offensive guard for one season and center for two. During his junior year, he was named the team’s top lineman, and he served as a captain during his senior year. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bucknell in 1989 and a master’s degree in educational psychology at SUNY Albany in 1991.

Foley and his wife Rebecca have two sons, Charlie and Luke, and a daughter Sara. His brother Glenn was a seven-year NFL veteran quarterback, playing with the New York Jets and Seattle Seahawks from 1993 to 2000.