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Greg Ruffin joins the Alabama State coaching staff in 2022 as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator. He brings with him a wealth of experience, including as a head coach.
 
He was officially hired as the 14th head football coach in the storied history of the Edward Waters College football program in 2017 (December 14). His 20+ years of experience as  in turning programs around as a head coach at the Division II and NAIA levels and a position coach in at the FCS level made him the perfect selection for EWC.
 
Ruffin spent one season at Bethune-Cookman University, as the tight ends coach before taking over Edward Waters.
 
His last head coaching job was at fellow NAIA HBCU Texas College in 2016. However, prior to his stint at Texas College, Ruffin was head coach for Paine College in the school's resurgence of football in 2013, after the program was dormant for more than 50 years.
 
He also coached at Texas Southern University prior to his appointment as head coach of the Paine College program. With the TSU Tigers out of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), he served as the Recruiting Coordinator and Tight Ends Coach during the 2012 season. And just before TSU, he served six seasons at Jackson State University, helping the program win the 2007 SWAC title and a runner-up finish in 2009. In his duties at Jackson State, Ruffin served as the Recruiting Coordinator and Running Backs Coach. He arrived to to JSU from Tuskegee University, where he served as running backs coach under Head Coach Rick Comegy.
 
Before his arrival at Tuskegee in 2005, Ruffin served one season (2004) as defensive assistant coach at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Just before his stay with Ouachita Baptist, he served one year (2002) as head football coach at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In that capacity, he resurrected the Shaw football program after a 23-year hiatus, propelling the first-year program to a 7-3 record. Ruffin spent one year at Benedict College (2001) as the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach.
 
During two seasons (1999-2000) at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, he worked in four different capacities – offensive coordinator, wide receivers coach, strength and conditioning coach and recruiting coordinator. He served on the staff of his alma mater of Lane for one season (1998) as receivers coach and recruiting coordinator.
 
His first collegiate coaching assignment was in 1997 with Kemper Military Community College in Booneville, Missouri, working as the running backs coach. In 1997, Kemper Military finished 10-2 and was ranked seventh in the country in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).

In 1995, Ruffin coached the wide receivers and defensive backs at Northside High School in Jackson, Tennessee; and running backs in 1996 at Jackson Central-Merry High School – also located in Jackson, Tennessee.