Joshua Eargle

Title

Tight Ends/Offensive Run Game Coordinator
Alma Mater

Memphis '01
Email Address

nposada@utep.edu
Phone

915-747-5224

Joshua Eargle returned to his home state of Texas and was hired in January 2025 as UTEP's tight ends coach/offensive run game coordinator. He brings over 20 years of coaching experience and head coaching experience in the Lone Star State.

The Brownwood, Texas, native previously served as FIU’s deputy head coach/offensive line coach during the 2023 and 2024 seasons. In Conference USA, the Panthers ranked no. 1 in the least sacks allowed (17) and sacks allowed per game (1.4). The Panthers’ scoring offense ranked third in CUSA at 26.3 points per game. Prior to being elevated, he also directed the tight ends in 2022. Tight ends Rivaldo Fairweather (28 rec., 426 yards, 3 TD) and Josiah Miamen (27 rec., 242, 1 TD) combined for 55 catches, 668 yards and four touchdowns in 2022. Fairweather signed with the Dallas Cowboys in April of 2025.

Before South Beach, Eargle was an offensive consultant/quarterbacks coach at Memphis in 2021. The Tigers captured their 8th consecutive birth to a bowl game with an invitation to the EasyPost Hawai’i Bowl. Memphis’ explosive offense earned three players First Team American Athletic All-Conference awards: Calvin Austin (WR) , Sean Dykes (TE) and Dylan Parham (OL). True Freshman Seth Hennigan slashed the Tiger offensive records books in 2021. With 3,322 passing yards on the regular season, Hennigan broke the school record for passing yards as a freshman.

Eargle made his Big 12 debut, as a part of Coach Les Miles’s staff at the University Kansas (2019-2021), serving as the recruiting coordinator/tight ends coach in 2020 and an offensive analyst in 2019. In his time at KU, Eargle developed the hybrid position for the Jayhawks. In addition to developing a young group at tight end, Eargle was chosen to serve as the interim head coach for the Kansas vs. West Virginia game on October 17, 2020, while Head Coach Les Miles was unable to travel due to COVID. The Jayhawks rallied around Eargle’s passion and played with a marked intensity.

Prior joining the Kansas staff, Eargle spent the previous three seasons at Austin Peay in a variety of roles, including interim head coach, offensive coordinator, run game coordinator and offensive line coach. Prior to the 2017 season, Austin Peay went from having just one win in four years to finishing with an 8-4 mark, including an 8-1 record in FCS competition. In 2018, Eargle took over the reins of the offense after the second game of the year. In his first game as offensive coordinator for APSU, Eargle’s offense set the Ohio Valley Conference record for most points scored against a Division I opponent in a 78-40 victory over Morehead State. For the 2018 season, the Govs set school records in yards per game (419.0), points scored (340), touchdowns scored (47), points per game (30.9), yards per play (6.19), and yards per rush (5.39). Eargle’s offensive line finished top ten nationally and led the conference, allowing only nine sacks on the season. Under his tutelage, Kentell Williams earned First-Team All-OVC recognition and Third Team All-America honors, and offensive linemen Byron Glass and Ethan Self were named Second-Team All-OVC. Two of Eargle’s pupils, left tackle Kyle Anderton and left guard Ryan Rockensuess, were named Second-Team All-OVC at the end of the 2017 season for their work in paving the top rushing attack in school history. Eargle coached three consensus All-America honorees – Kordell Jackson (2020), DeAngelo Wilson (2020), Johnathon Edwards (2021). Bucky Williams was an American Football Coaches Association Second Team All-American and a HERO Sports Sophomore All-American in 2020. Williams signed with the L.A. Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2024.

Eargle brings head coaching experience as he was at the helm at East Texas Baptist for three years (2013-2015). He turned around a struggling program to win the American Southwest Conference Championship in his third season. He led ETBU to a 7-3 record with a 4-1 mark in the ASC and the program’s first national ranking since 2004. Eargle was named the ASC Coach of the Year in 2015, and produced five All-Americans and 30 all-conference players, including quarterback Josh Warbington and running back Kendall Roberson who posted back-to-back All-American campaigns in 2014-15. Kendal Roberson, Kyron Moore, and Sam Williams all went on to play in the Canadian Football League.

After playing defensive and offensive line for the Memphis Tigers, Eargle started his coaching career at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2003. In his first year as a graduate assistant, he was a part of the Conference USA Championship with a perfect 8-0 record. The Golden Eagles earned a bowl bid to the AXA Liberty Bowl that season and notched a win in the GMAC Bowl the following year.

Eargle became the offensive line Coach at Ouachita Baptist in 2005 before returning to Southern Mississippi as an assistant offensive line coach. Upon his return to Southern Miss in 2006, the team won the Conference USA East title and the New Orleans Bowl.
Eargle was at Nicholls State for the 2007-08 seasons, serving as the recruiting coordinator and offensive line coach. One of Eargle’s former recruits Antonio Robinson went on to an NFL career in 2010-2011, capturing the XLV Super Bowl Championship Title with the Green Bay Packers. Two other Nicholls players went on to NFL careers, Kareem Moore (Washington Commanders) and Lardarius Webb (Baltimore Ravens).

In 2009, Eargle first joined up with National Champion Coach Les Miles when he took the quality control position for the LSU Tigers working with the Offensive Line. During the 2009 season, the Tigers were ranked as high as No. 4 in the country and played in the Capital One Bowl. Eargle spent the 2010 season as the offensive coordinator at Arkansas-Monticello and then was the defensive coordinator at Hallsville (Texas) High School in 2011 and the defensive coordinator at Southeastern Oklahoma State in 2012.

Eargle and his wife, Kristen, have three children—Kourtney, Landrey and Stallings.

A 2001 Memphis graduate, Eargle won the inaugural Top Tiger Award, presented to the player who battled back from adversity or overcame difficult circumstances to return to the field. He earned his Master’s in sports administration from Southern Miss in 2004. His wife, Kristen, founded and hosts a national podcast, Coach’s Wife Life.

The Eargles founded the nonprofit, Ruler of Hope, whose mission is to provide support and research to medically fragile children. Following the 2018 season, Eargle won the Rare Disease Champion Award presented by Uplifting Athletes at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Banquet for his work in raising awareness for his young daughter, Landrey’s fight against life-threatening illnesses.