Buddy Stephens
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | East Mississippi |
| Conference | MACJC |
| Record | 148–28 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | September 6, 1966 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1986–1987 | Pearl River |
| 1988–1989 | Delta State |
| Position(s) | Center |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2001–2007 | Pearl River (assistant) |
| 2008–present | East Mississippi |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 148–28 |
| Bowls | 7–0 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 5 NJCAA National (2011, 2013–2014, 2017–2018) 9 MACJC/MACCC (2009, 2011, 2013–2014, 2016–2018, 2022–2023) 13 MACJC/MACCC North Division (2008–2009, 2011–2019, 2021, 2023) | |
Wofford Oran "Buddy" Stephens Jr. is an American junior college football coach. He is the head football coach at East Mississippi Community College, where he has won five NJCAA National Football Championships and coached future National Football League (NFL) players such as Chad Kelly, Jarran Reed and Dakota Allen.
Stephens is known as the head coach from the first two seasons of the Netflix series Last Chance U. He has won more games at EMCC than any other coach in history.
Stephens played college football for Pearl River and Delta State, both as a center and guard. After serving as an assistant football and girls' soccer coach at Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he was hired at Pearl River in 2001.