2024 - Chadron State College named former Eagles wide receiver and CSC All-Century team member Micah Smith to the football coaching staff as the offensive coordinator on January 30, 2020.
Since hanging up his cleats at Chadron State in 2007, Smith has strung together 12 consecutive years of coaching at NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, Nebraska State College System, and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference institutions. In addition, he had one year as offensive coordinator to Eagles’ great signal-caller Jonn McLain, who played his senior year at Chadron High for Smith, before joining the Eagles in 2009.
Under Smith in 2021, the Eagles were third in the RMAC for both passing yards per game and passing efficiency, totaling 2,618 yards through the air and 23 touchdowns, compared to only 10 interceptions. Three offensive players were named to the All-RMAC teams following the season. Two more earned all-conference honors in 2022.
In his first season running the CSC offensive attack, the Eagles recorded more yards per game than all but one of the NCAA Division II teams playing football in the fall of 2020.
Smith last coached at NAIA Mayville State University in fall of 2019. As the MSU offensive coordinator, Smith tutored the North Star Athletic Association's leader for total offense per game. He also increased the team's scoring output by nearly 25 percent in his only season there.
Smith received the title of interim head coach at Mayville for several weeks, after the departure of the head coach, who was former CSC defensive coordinator Jeff Larson.
Prior to Mayville, Smith spent five seasons at Division I FCS Eastern Illinois University, first as tight ends coach but later as co-special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach. The Panthers were 24-16 in the Ohio Valley Conference during those years, earning an FCS playoff berth in 2015. In addition, Smith contributed to the nation’s ninth-best passing attack as wide receivers coach in 2018, and mentored four all-conference and one All-America selection during that term.
Stints as position coach at Division III Wabash College and CSC’s conference rival Fort Lewis preceded the Eastern Illinois job. At FLC, Smith coached one season under coaching legend John L. Smith.
Smith’s first college coaching job was at Wayne State College in Nebraska. There, as a graduate assistant with wide receivers responsibilities, he oversaw the rise to All-America status of both Frederick Bruno and former CSC offensive coordinator Logan Masters, in 2009.
Smith is the youngest of three children of longtime CSC head football coach Brad Smith, a CSC Hall of Famer, Class of 2010, and the winningest coach in Chadron State history. Brad was named to the RMAC All-Centennial Team as head coach in 2009, the RMAC Hall of Fame in 2011, and the Nebraska Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2020.
Micah Smith received his master's degree from Wayne State and his bachelor's from Chadron State, where he earned a place as the punt returner on the school's All-Century team, helping the Eagles to two conference titles and two playoff berths. He and his wife, Jadrianne have two daughters and a son, Joslyn, Rowyn and Zaylyn.
