Former FSU, Oregon assistant Alonzo Hampton accepts Arkansas-Pine Bluff head coach position

Former Arkansas, FSU and Oregon assistant Alonzo Hampton has accepted the head coaching job at Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The Golden Lions reportedly offered a three-year deal to Hampton to bring him back to the SWAC, giving him his first head coaching position since 2004-2005 at Dumas High School in Arkansas.

Alonzo Hampton accepts head coaching job at Arkansas-Pine Bluff

“Arkansas Pine Bluff has finalized a three-year deal to make ULM assistant Alonzo Hampton the school’s next head coach. Hampton has been an assistant FSU, Oregon, USF and Western Kentucky. He also worked at Pine Bluff early in his career,” explained ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Hampton’s resume includes stops at multiple big name programs over the past five years, starting with having worked for Oregon as a defensive analyst in 2017. From there, Hampton joined Florida State as a special teams coordinator, then Arkansas as a defensive analyst again. In 2021, he took over as an assistant coach and eventual special teams coordinator for ULM in the Sun Belt Conference where he worked the past two seasons.

Hampton began his college coaching career at Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 2006, working as cornerbacks coach and then defensive backs coach before being named defensive coordinator in 2009. He takes over a Golden Lions program that finished the season 3-8 with a 1-7 record in SWAC play — finishing last in the conference.