Dwike Wilson enters his second season at the University of South Alabama football program’s cornerbacks coach and recruiting coordinator.
Last season, he helped coach a defense that matched school season records with 15 interceptions and 25 total takeaways while recording the second-high sack total in program history as well. Wilson coached All-Sun Belt performer Darrell Luter, Jr. who topped the Sun Belt in passes defended per game and was second in interceptions per contest, standing among the top five in the country in the former category and the top 15 in the latter, while picking off four passes and breaking up 10 others to go along with 21 tackles.
Wilson has been on the staff with Jaguar head coach Kane Wommack at Indiana the last two seasons, serving as the Hoosiers’ director of player personnel and high school relations. During his time with the program, IU posted a combined 14-7 overall record highlighted by an 11-5 mark in the Big Ten Conference after going 6-2 and ending up 12th in the final Associated Press poll in 2020.
He arrived in Bloomington after three years at Jones County (Miss.) J.C., where he was defensive coordinator and secondary coach during the 2016 and ‘17 campaigns before being named assistant head coach and moved to linebackers while maintaining coordinator duties his final season with the Bobcats.
Six individuals — including four named to the first-team — earned all-region and all-Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference (MACCC) South Division honors his final season at the school after JCJC went 10-2, won the Mississippi Bowl and was ranked fifth in the final National Junior College Athletic Association poll. The Bobcats finished 6-3 his first year in charge of the team’s defense with five players receiving all-region and all-conference recognition, with another five individuals honored the following fall after the program posted an overall 8-2 mark following an appearance in the MACCC playoffs.
He filled multiple roles at Hinds (Miss.) C.C. from 2009-15, including spending one season as the Eagles’ secondary coach, special teams coordinator and recruiting coordinator, three as the team’s defensive coordinator and three as a wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator. During that time his efforts helped HCC post a winning overall record on five occasions — including each of his last three years on the staff — as the Eagles qualified for the MACCC playoffs in 2011 on the way to a 7-3 finish while posting the same mark two seasons later following an appearance in the Brazos Valley Bowl.
Wilson also served as the recruiting coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Carolina A&T for three years, one as recruiting coordinator and defensive backs coach at Murray State, and four seasons on the staff at Itawamba (Miss.) C.C.
Wilson played at Hinds C.C. — helping the Eagles win the state championship in 1997 — before going on to work as student assistant for two years at Ole Miss, where he would earn his bachelor’s degree.
He and his wife Anntwan have two sons, Dwike Jr. and Daniel.
The Wilson File
Born: Jan. 16, 1978, in Vicksburg, Miss.
Education:
Ole Miss ’01, bachelor’s degree in leisure management
Collegiate Playing Experience:
One year, linebacker, Hinds (Miss.) CC
Won 1997 Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges championship
Coaching Experience:
Ole Miss — student assistant coach, 2000-01
Itawamba (Miss.) CC — assistant coach, 2002-04
Murray State — assistant coach, 2005
North Carolina A&T — assistant coach, 2006-07
Coahoma (Miss.) CC — assistant coach, 2008
Hinds (Miss.) CC — assistant coach, 2009-15
Jones County (Miss.) JC — assistant coach, 2016-18
Indiana — director of player personnel, 2019-20
South Alabama — assistant coach, 2021-
Family: Wife, Anntwan; Two sons, Dwike Jr. (11) and Daniel (8)
