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Buckley is the head man at Mississippi Valley State
Former Green Bay Packers first-round pick Terrell Buckley has been named the head coach of Mississippi Valley State University, an HBCU in his home state of Mississippi. Buckley’s Delta Devils compete in the SWAC, a scholarship conference that generally elects to play in the postseason Celebration Bowl rather than the FCS playoffs.
While Buckley is from Mississippi, his hometown of Pascagoula is about five hours from Itta Bena, where MVSU is located. Luckily, he has experience at both Ole Miss and Mississippi State, which are both located in the northern half of Mississippi, like MVSU.
Since 2012, Buckley has also coached Akron and Louisville at the positional coach level. His last stint in college was in 2021, when he was the cornerbacks coach for the Rebels. After a year out of the sport, he resurfaced as the Orlando Guardians’ head coach in the rebooted XFL. There, Buckley went 1-9 — mostly due to a struggling offense. In the Guardians’ first eight games of the season that year, they only managed to crack the 20-point margin twice
Other coaches on the Orlando staff included Devin Bush Sr., who, like Buckley, was a first-round pick out of Florida State in the 1990s. Bush and Buckley overlapped at Ole Miss from 2020 to 2021, and, yes, Sr. is the father of 2019 first-round pick and current Cleveland Browns linebacker Devin Bush Jr.
Buckley has his work cut out for him, as the previous head coach, Kendrick Wade, only lasted two seasons at the program. Wade’s teams went a combined 2-21 over those years and 2-14 in the SWAC. According to the Wolfe Ratings, which attempt to measure every single college football team in the country, MSVU’s road upset over Florida A&M — the Delta Devils’ lone win in 2024 — was the second biggest upset in all of college football last season. The only upset that surpasses that game, per the Wolfe Ratings, was Northern Illinois beating the eventual national champion runner-up in Notre Dame in September.
