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A 30-year veteran college football coach, Morris begins his second season as Offensive Coordinator/Clarence S. Rockwell, VMD Quarterbacks Coach at Penn in 2020.
 
During his first season at the helm of the offense he saw the team rank 36th in the nation in passing offense (249.0 ypg) and he helped the Quaker score over 24 points per game. Three players on his offense garnered All-Ivy accolades.
 
Morris comes to University City following a five-year stint as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Monmouth University from 2014-18. Prior to that, he served as offensive coordinator at Yale from 2012-13 and was head coach at Massachusetts from 2009-11.
 
A 1986 graduate of Williams College where he played quarterback and was also a pitcher on the baseball team, Morris began his coaching career at the University at Albany from 1986-87. During the 1986 season, he was on staff alongside both Priore who was then serving as defensive backs coach and current Penn wide receivers coach Rick Ulrich who was a graduate assistant coach. In 1987, Morris was joined on the Great Danes’ staff by Bob Benson, Penn’s current Associate Head Coach and defensive coordinator.
 
During his time at Monmouth, Morris coached 24 All-Big South selections over his five seasons including Reggie White, Jr. – a consensus All-American and NFL prospect who broke almost every Monmouth receiving record. This past season, eight of Monmouth’s 12 All-Big South selections were from the offensive side of the ball, including five who earned first-team honors. In addition, he coached back-to-back Big South Offensive Freshman of the Year winners in running backs Pete Guerriero (2017) and Juwon Farri (2018). This past season, Farri led the Hawks with 1,024 yards on 139 carries with eight touchdowns on his way to a sixth-place finish in voting for the STATS FCS Jerry Rice Award presented to the FCS Rookie of the Year. His 7.4 yards per carry was No. 5 among FCS running backs.
 
Morris helped pave the way to the NFL for multiple Hawks during his tenure with Monmouth. Two former Hawks tight ends, Neal Sterling (New York Jets) and Hakeem Valles (New York Giants), are currently on an NFL roster and three more Hawks were invited to NFL training camps.
 
Over the past two seasons, Monmouth has averaged 32 points per game and finished second in the Big South while compiling a 17-6 overall record.
 
Before his time at Monmouth, Morris coached eight players to All-Ivy honors – including first-team All-Ivy selections Deon Randall and Tyler Varga – at Yale in his two seasons as offensive coordinator.
 
Morris spent the eight years prior to his time in New Haven with the UMass Minutemen, with a three-year stint as head coach preceded by five years as offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach. During his stint as offensive coordinator, the Minutemen appeared in the 2006 FCS National Championship game and won a pair of CAA championships while winning 75 percent of their conference games. Under Morris, UMass developed a high-powered offense that averaged nearly 30 points and 400 yards of total offense per game over his five seasons. All-American quarterback Liam Coen set nearly every passing record in school history and graduated among the top 15 passing leaders in FCS history in yards and completions. After his senior season, Coen was first among all active passers in FCS in terms of touchdown passes and second in passing yards, completions and attempts.
 
During his tenure as head coach, Morris led the Minutemen to a number of high profile wins, including an upset of No. 4 New Hampshire in his first season as head coach. While at the helm at UMass, the program produced its highest NFL Draft pick in more than 40 years as All-American offensive lineman Vladimir Ducasse was selected in the second round by the New York Jets. Five other UMass seniors from the class of 2009 signed as NFL free agents for 2010 training camps.
 
From 2000 to 2003 Morris was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Northeastern University where he led one of the top offensive attacks in the Atlantic 10 Conference. During his time with the Huskies, Northeastern broke 24 school offensive records and in 2003 led the A-10 in total offense (431.8 ypg) and ranked second in scoring offense (34.5 ppg).
 
Morris first became a head coach in 1993 when he took over the reins at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he first served as an assistant coach from 1988-90. Morris led the Engineers to a Freedom Football Conference championship in his first season and went on to coach a total of six seasons (1993-98) at WPI before leaving for a one-year stint at Stony Brook in 1999.
 
Morris and his wife, Rebecca, have one son Ryan.