Staff Directory

Ty Morris

Title:
Special Teams Coordinator / Safeties
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Ty Morris enters his second season on the ACU football coaching staff in 2025.

Morris was promoted to be the Wildcats' special teams coordinator and safeties coach in Feb. 2025.

In 2024, Morris worked as a special teams assistant, guiding transfer kicker Ritse Vaes to All-America status.

Vaes was voted Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America, and also earned a spot on College Sports Communicators' Academic All-America 2nd Team. He connected on 14-of-20 field goals, which tied for the most made field goals in ACU single-season history.

Vaes finished with 97 points on the season -- good enough for fourth most by an ACU kicker.

Three other special teams players -- long snapper Devan Daugherty, and punters Grant Nickel and Hugo Nash -- also made CSC Academic All-District.

Morris was named part of Our Coaching Network's 30 Under 30 list of the nation's top young college football coaches in 2025.

From 2022-24, Morris was the special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach at Division III Eastern University (Penn.), where he completed his Master's in business administration and management.

Morris started 15 games at Alvernia University in Reading, Penn., and recorded nearly 100 tackles in his collegiate career as a defensive back. He was on the Middle Atlantic Conference Academic Honor Roll multiple times.

A native of Sussex County, Del., Morris graduated from Alvernia with a degree in Elementary Education and Special Education.

Coach Keith Patterson says...
"Ty is a bright, young coach. He has a passion for special teams which is hard to find."