West Virginia University Athletics

Randy Wilkins is the senior defensive assistant/pass rush specialist/game manager for the Mountaineer Football coaching staff. He served as a defensive analyst since March 2022, added the special assistant to the head coach responsibilities in the spring of 2023 and has assumed his current role in July 2024.

Wilkins organizes, implements and maintains all aspects of game analysis for the defensive coaching staff. He analyzes game film and formulates game plans to assist the defensive coaching staff with game preparation.

He monitors and collects in-season player homework, position exams and goals/action plan of game analysis work, serves as the primary contact for data analysis company partners and engages with the Big 12 officials for fall camp, practices and during the season. He also manages the offseason accountability teams, oversees the defensive graduate assistants and student coaches and supports the head coach with recruiting communications. He assists the head coach and coaching staff with on-campus recruiting operations and oversees the administration of the defensive plan for the annual high school coaches clinic.

Before WVU, he served as the defensive line coach at Midwestern State in Wichita Falls, Texas, for 12 years. In that time, the Mustangs had four Lone Star Conference championships, five NCAA Division II playoff appearances, an LSC playoff title and a trip to the Kanza Bowl. Prior to his arrival at Midwestern, he served as defensive line coach at Texas A&M-Commerce from 2007-09 after completing two seasons as a graduate assistant at Troy.

At Midwestern State and Texas A&M Commerce, he coached two All-Americans, three conference defensive linemen of the year and more than 25 all-conference performers.

The Jacksonville, Florida, native, played collegiately under legendary Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden and defensive legend Mickey Andrews at Florida State, where he worked his way into the defensive line rotation as a walk-on before earning a scholarship prior to his junior season.

He was a member of five bowl teams, four of which played for the national championship. He saw action as a defensive end and as a nose guard while serving as a crucial backup to an eventual All American. Wilkins also played on special teams units as a three-year letterwinner.

Wilkins graduated from FSU with a double major in business management and marketing in 2000. He earned his master’s degree from Troy in sport and fitness management in 2007. He, and his wife, Jessica, have a son, Christian.