Kansas State Football | Meet offensive coordinator Courtney Messingham | February 4, 2019

Meet Kansas State's new offensive coordinator Courtney Messingham. Messingham joins Chris Klieman's first coaching staff at K-State.

BIO:
Courtney Messingham, a 29-year coaching veteran who has served as a coordinator at multiple stops in addition to coaching virtually every offensive position, was named Kansas State’s offensive coordinator and tight ends coach in December 2018. Messingham comes to Manhattan after an ultra-successful two-year stint as offensive coordinator and running backs coach at North Dakota State under head coach Chris Klieman.

Messingham’s offenses reset the NDSU and Missouri Valley Football Conference record books in 2018, a year that the Bison went 15-0 and won its FCS-record seventh national championship, all coming within an eight-year span. The Bison set the school and conference marks for points scored (622), touchdowns scored (80), rushing offense (4,293), total offense (7,076) and rushing touchdowns (54). Additionally, the 2018 Bison set a school record for yards per play (7.37) and ranked second in yards per rush (6.41).

NDSU ranked in the top-10 in the nation in scoring offense during both of Messingham’s seasons at the controls, going for 41.5 points per game in 2018 and 38.7 points per game in 2017, helping the Bison earn a combined 29-1 record and two national championships. North Dakota State’s rushing offense also ranked in the top 10 each of Messingham’s two seasons at the helm by averaging 286.2 yards in 2018 to rank seventh and 272.2 yards per game in 2017 to rank fourth. And, although the Bison averaged less than 200 yards passing per game, they were extremely efficient when they did throw, ranking fourth (163.15) and second (169.71) in passing efficiency in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

Messingham tutored a three-headed monster at running back in 2018 in Bruce Anderson, Lance Dunn and Ty Brooks as the trio averaged 169.4 yards per game and totaled 26 touchdowns. In 2017, Anderson was a Second Team FCS All-American and All-Missouri Valley Conference player by ranking sixth in the nation with 1,216 yards to go along with 12 touchdowns.

Messingham went to NDSU from Montana State, where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2016. That season under Messingham’s guidance, quarterback Chris Murray was named Big Sky Freshman of the Year and was a Freshman All-American. Prior to that, Messingham was the offensive and special teams quality control coach at Indiana in 2014 and 2015, aiding an offense with two 1,000-yard rushers, a 1,000-yard receiver and a 3,500-yard passer to mark just the fourth occurrence in NCAA history.

His stint in Manhattan will be his second tour of duty in the Big 12 as Messingham spent five seasons at Iowa State, including his final two as the offensive coordinator. He coached the tight ends in 2009 and 2010 before switching to wide receivers in 2011. Messingham took control of the Cyclone offense in 2012 and 2013, helping ISU set a school record for touchdown passes the first year (28), while the Cyclones also ranked in the top five that season in passing yards (fourth), first down (fourth), total offense (fifth), total touchdowns (fifth) and points (fifth).