Recruiting Areas: Alabama, Florida, New York (Lower Hudson Valley, Catskills, Westchester County)
Ron McCrone enters his third season under head coach Kent Austin and will take over work with the safeties in 2012. McCrone previously spent two seasons as the John B. and Ann M. Rogers Defensive Coordinator and has more than 40 years of coaching experience in high school, college, the CSFL and the Arena Football League.
Three of his defensive players earned All-Ivy accolades in 2011, including second-teamer Rashad Campbell at corner back. The Big Red defense forced
In 2010, McCrone worked with a defense that featured just three senior starters and 12 freshmen and sophomores on the two-deep in 2010. A pair of defensive players, Emani Fenton and Zach Imhoff, were named to the All-Ivy team for the first times in their career, while Fenton and senior Dempsey Quinn earned spots in the FCS Senior Scout Bowl All-Star Game.
McCrone previously served as defensive coordinator and assistant head football coach at Jacksonville University from 2007-09, helping the Dolphins to their first-ever Pioneer League title (2008) and back-to-back winning seasons (2008-09).
His college stops as an assistant coach include Florida, Auburn, Ole Miss, Duke, Vanderbilt, Temple and Southern Miss and has coached defensive backs, defensive ends, linebackers and special teams. McCrone helped the Tampa Bay Bandits to the USFL playoffs in 1985 as the linebackers and special teams coach, while his Central Florida team made the Division I-AA playoffs in 1995. He was part of the Southern Miss coaching staff in 2004 when they made an appearance in the Wyndham New Orleans Bowl. McCrone served as head coach of the Jacksonville Tomcats, an AFL2 team in the Arena league from 2000-01.
McCrone's coaching career has been full of record-setting seasons, with his 1976 Tennessee-Martin team establishing an NCAA record with four interceptions returned for touchdowns and 269 return yards in a game, while pacing the Gulf South Conference in total defense. His 1980 Vanderbilt team set an NCAA record at the time with five INTs. At Central Florida in 1993, the Golden Knights had a school-record 58 sacks and led all Florida colleges with 22 interceptions. During the 2003 season at Southwest Missouri State, McCrone's charges finished No. 3 nationally in I-AA in pass efficiency defense.
A 1968 graduate of the University of Florida with degrees in physical education and recreation and health, McCrone was a member of the 1967 Florida Orange Bowl team and was also a member of the baseball team.
* - updated July 23, 2012
