SAN ANTONIO — Fresh off the program’s third consecutive bowl victory, UTSA head coach Jeff Traylor has hired Rick Bowie as the Roadrunners’ offensive coordinator.
A coaching veteran for more than a decade, Bowie has served as an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at three different schools, most recently at Western Kentucky for the 2025 season. He helped guide WKU to a 9-4 campaign that was capped by a 27-16 victory over Southern Miss in the New Orleans Bowl.
Under Bowie’s leadership, the Hilltoppers averaged more than 400 yards of offense per game including 272.2 passing yards per contest, which led Conference USA and ranked in the top 20 nationally. Maverick McIvor completed 183 of 273 passes (.670) for 2,062 yards and 12 touchdowns, while Rodney Tisdale Jr. threw for 1,432 yards and nine TDs on 139-of-212 passing (.656). WKU logged five games with 300-plus passing yards including 401 in a win over Sam Houston. The Hilltoppers also topped 500 total yards three times headlined by 642 in a victory against Middle Tennessee.
Bowie’s offense featured several players who garnered postseason honors. Offensive lineman Laurence Seymore was named a second-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America and second-team all-conference along with wide receiver Matthew Henry. Tisdale was chosen as the CUSA Freshman of the Year and to the All-Freshman Team along with running back Marvis Parrish and offensive lineman Elijah Williams.
Bowie spent the 2024 season at Abilene Christian as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He tutored one of the top passing offenses in the FCS and helped the Wildcats to their first-ever national ranking at the Division I level, a United Athletic Conference Championship and a berth in the FCS playoffs for the first time in program history, where they beat Northern Arizona in the first round.
Bowie's offense ranked fourth in the FCS in total offense at 469.6 yards per game and 16th nationally in scoring at 33.8 points per game. ACU ranked seventh nationally in passing offense with quarterback Maverick McIvor, who threw for 3,828 yards and 30 touchdowns against only seven interceptions on 312-of-499 passing, good for an average of 294.5 yards per game. McIvor was named a second-team All-American by FCS Football Central and a first-team All-UAC selection. He ranked fourth in the FCS in total passing yards, fifth in passing yards per game, eighth in total offense, sixth in passing touchdowns, ninth in points responsible for, fourth in total completions and seventh in completions per game.
Prior to his time at ACU, Bowie spent two seasons at Valdosta State as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He mentored All-America quarterback Sammy Edwards, who finished third in the Harlon Hill voting in 2023 after passing for 4,223 yards and 34 touchdowns.
He helped the Blazers to a 12-2 record, the Gulf South Conference title and an appearance in the 2023 NCAA Division II quarterfinals. His offense averaged 36.9 points per game and was in the top 10 nationally in yards per play (6.7) passing yards per game (312.0) and total touchdowns (67).
In 2022, Valdosta State boasted the only offense in Division II to rank in the top 25 in both passing and rushing yards under his tutelage. The Blazers averaged 476.0 yards per game and 6.9 yards per play, both of which ranked fifth nationally, and scored 36.6 points per game (12th) that fall.
Prior to his time at Valdosta State, Bowie was at Houston, where he served as the wide receivers coach in 2021 and as an offensive graduate assistant in 2019 and 2020. During his tenure on the UH staff, the Cougars finished 14th in the FBS in scoring offense and 24th in passing offense.
Bowie spent the 2018 season as an offensive graduate assistant at West Virginia. Prior to that, was co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks/tight ends coach at the prep level at St. Frances Academy in Baltimore. He got his coaching start as an intern at FIU in the summer of 2011, before becoming the tight ends/quarterbacks coach for four seasons at Gilman School in Baltimore.
Bowie received his bachelor's degree from Dickinson College in 2012 after playing for four years as a quarterback and wide receiver and serving as the football representative for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He went on to get a master's degree in educational studies from Johns Hopkins in 2018.
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