Raymond Woodie - Football Coach - Florida Atlantic University Athletics

Raymond Woodie

Title:
Associate Head Coach / OLB, Special Teams and Recruiting Coordinator
Phone:
561-297-1094

Meet Raymond Woodie

Raymond Woodie joined the Florida Atlantic staff in January of 2020. Woodie will focus his attention with the outside linebackers and with Owl recruiting, as the recruiting coordinator. Ahead of the '21 season, added special teams responsibilities as well as being named associate head coach.

At FAU

Tutored a linebacking corps that was part of a defense ranking among the top of NCAA and C-USA leaderboards in 2020
The Owls totaled 25 sacks, most in C-USA, in just nine games. That mark was 30th among all 2020 FBS teams
The unit allowed just 17.4 points per game (second in the league and 10th in NCAA) in 2020
In the conference, the 2020 Owls slotted fourth in total defense and fifth in both rushing defense and passing defense
Became associate head coach and added special teams responsibilities in the offseason, ahead of '21
Worked with a defense that ended 2022 ranked No. 8 in third down conversion percentage, holding opponents to .32 percent
His efforts with special teams saw punter Matt Hayball flourish posting an average of 45.7 yards per kick, which ranked the junior No. 16 nationally

At Florida State

Served on the Seminoles’ staff from 2018-2019 where he primarily worked with the linebackers
The 2018 season saw Woodie assume the challenge of a position room that only seven total starts among the entire linebacker corps
The group was led by Dontavious Jackson, who ranked second on the team with 75 tackles and became the first Seminole since 2001 to have multiple games of at least 14 tackles in the same season. Jackson, redshirt freshman DeCalon Brooks, sophomore Leonard Warner and true freshman Jaiden Woodbey, who earned Freshman All-America honors while starting all 12 games at the STAR position, all flashed versatility
The quartet stuffed each section of the stat sheet with a combined 217 tackles, including 16.0 for loss, one interception, 14 pass breakups, 10 quarterback hurries, three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery
The Seminoles ranked second in the ACC and 20th in the NCAA holding opponents to only 3.52 yards per rush. The run defense held nine of 12 opponents under their season yards-per-carry average, kept three teams from reaching 100 yards on the ground and allowed only 16 rushing touchdowns, the fourth-lowest total in the conference
The Seminoles ranked second in the ACC and 17th in the NCAA in fourth-down defense and also ranked fifth in the conference in rushing defense, third-down defense and passes intercepted

At Oregon

Prior to FSU, Woodie served as the outside linebackers and special teams coordinator for the Ducks
He orchestrated a nearly perfect kicking game in 2017 as Oregon finished the season 63-of-63 on PAT attempts and 9-of-12 on field goals
Additionally, the team’s average of 22.73 yards per kickoff return ranked third in the Pac-12
Long snapper Tanner Carew earned First Team All-America honors from Phil Steele and was invited to the Senior Bowl, and freshman Brenden Schooler was a First Team All-Pac-12 selection as an all-purpose/special teams player
Kicker Adrian Schneider broke Oregon’s school record with 51 career made field goals
On defense, Woodie’s outside linebackers made major contributions to a unit that ranked 23rd in the country with 25 turnovers forced, 22nd with an average of 7.2 tackles for loss per game, and 24th in rushing defense by allowing 128.5 yards per game on the ground
The team’s total defense improved its national ranking of 126 in 2016 to 46th in 2017

At USF

At USF, Woodie held the title of assistant head coach for two seasons and coordinated the Bulls’ defense during their record-breaking 2016 season
That year, the Bulls won a school record 11 games, while the defense forced 26 turnovers to rank 18th in the country and returned three for touchdowns, tied for the 19th-highest total in the nation
He also oversaw the linebackers at USF, coaching two to All-Conference recognition
In 2014, Nigel Harris led the country and broke a school record with six forced fumbles
He also tutored the Houston Texans’ sixth-round selection in the 2015 NFL Draft, Reshard Cliett, while helping DeDe Lattimore and Harris reach the NFL
In 2015, he was responsible for the Bulls’ special teams and coached the sixth-best kickoff return unit in the country as USF finished the year with a program-record average of 26.66 yards per return
Kickoff returner Rodney Adams was a Second Team All-Conference selection after leading the American Athletic Conference and ranking sixth in the NCAA with his average of 29.1 yards per return. Adams was selected in the fifth round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings

At WKU

While at WKU, he recruited Venice, Florida, native Forrest Lamp and Lakeland, Florida, native Andrew Jackson to Bowling Green. Lamp was a second-round pick by the Los Angeles Chargers in the 2017 NFL Draft and Jackson was selected in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft by the Indianapolis Colts. They are two of seven Hilltoppers recruited by Woodie to play in the NFL

High School

Before entering college coaching, Woodie was a high school head coach in South Florida for 13 seasons
He was the head coach at Palmetto High School from 2007-09 and led the Tigers to a district title in 2008
From 1997-2006, Woodie was the head coach at Bayshore High School (following one season as the team’s defensive coordinator) and led the Bruins to the state playoffs seven times
When he took over as head coach he was only 23 years old, making him the youngest head coach in the state

Recruiting Accolades

Woodie boasts an impressive résumé on the recruiting trail and impacted Florida State immediately as he was ranked as the No. 2 recruiter in the ACC by 247Sports in 2018, despite having less than two months to recruit for the Seminoles after he was hired
Woodie earned AAC Top Recruiter recognition by Rivals in 2014 and was named the Sun Belt’s Recruiter of the Year by Scout/FoxSports.com in 2012
He was also ranked as the No. 1 recruiter in the Pac-12 and No. 13 nationally by 247Sports during the 2017 season
He helped Coach Taggart sign the AAC’s top classes in 2014 and 2015, directly recruiting nine of USF’s 10 All-Conference selections in 2016, and the highest-ranked classes in the Sun Belt in 2010 and 2011

Playing Career

Lettered as an outside linebacker and strong safety at Bethune-Cookman from 1992-95, where he earned GTE Academic All-America honors and was a I-AA All-American and First Team All-MEAC performer his final two seasons
As a junior, he broke the program’s single-season record with 14.5 sacks
Following his collegiate career, Woodie spent one season playing for the CFL’s British Columbia Lions

Personal
Hometown: Palmetto, Florida
High School: Palmetto High School
College: Earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Bethune-Cookman in 1996. He was the first Bethune student-athlete to be named a GTE Academic All-American and have $25,000 donated to the school in his name. Woodie earned his master’s degree in education from National Louis University
Family: Wife Stephanie, and three children, Alanah, Kaden and Raymond III, who plays football at Florida State

Years	Team	Position
2021-Present	Florida Atlantic	Associate Head Coach/OLB/Special Teams/Recruiting Coordinator
2020	Florida Atlantic	Outside Linebackers/Recruiting Coordinator
2018-19	Florida State	Linebackers
2017	Oregon	Special Teams Coordinator/Outside Linebackers
2016	USF	Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator
2015	USF	Assistant Head Coach/Linebackers
2013-14	USF	Linebackers
2012	WKU	Linebackers
2010-11	WKU	Defensive Ends
2007-09	Palmetto High School (Florida)	Head Coach
1997-2006	Bayshore High School (Florida)	Head Coach
1996	Bayshore High School (Florida)	Defensive Coordinator