Michael Floyd begins his first season as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Alabama State.
Prior to his arrival to ASU Floyd spent a short stint as an assistant men’s coach at Bishop State Community College in Mobile, Ala. During the 2013-14 season he was announced as the Interim Head coach of the University of West Alabama men’s team driving them to the most wins since the 1997-98 season. In the same season he led the team to its first win over a Division I opponent since 1980, a 2nd place in the Gulf South Conference and finished ranked 5th in the NCAA South II Region. West Alabama also participated for a first time in 32 years in the NCAA National Tournament.
Floyd brings 17 years of experience coaching at all levels with the exception of high school. With an extensive knowledge of coaching this will be his first run coaching a female collegiate team. He began his coaching career as an assistant at Spring Hill College, where he served as the recruiting coordinator, film exchange coordinator, scouting coordinator and camp director. He prepared schedules and travel arrangements, while designing and coaching offensive and defensive sets.
After spending two years at Spring Hill College, Floyd went back to school to pursue a Master’s degree in Health Services at the University of Alabama. While at Alabama he gained additional experience spending two years as a graduate assistant, assisting with all aspects of men’s division I basketball; to include obtaining and breaking down game film and assisting with the University of Alabama basketball camps. In his first year at Alabama, the Crimson Tide ranked first for the first time in the school’s history compiling a 20-11 record. In 2003-04 Alabama finished with a season best as part of the “Elite Eight” (21-13).
From 2004-05 Floyd returned to full-time status as an assistant at Troy. He was responsible for film exchange and on and off-campus recruiting activities as well as being the academic supervisor. Floyd made three more stops from 2005-2013. He had a year stint at Alabama Southern Community College (2005-06) as the head men’s coach. He guided Alabama Southern to an 18-12 record and a second-place finish in the division in 2005-06. Followed by a season at Texas A&M-Corus Christi (2006-07), where the Islanders went 26-7 and 14-2 in its first year in the Southland Conference.
He spent five seasons at the University of South Alabama (2007-13) with similar responsibilities at each school. While in the Sun Belt Conference he helped coached the player of the year Augustine Rubit and in his first year at USA, he helped the Jags earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament after compiling a 26-7 overall record.
Floyd earned his bachelor’s degree from Murray State in Sociology in 2000. During his playing days as a three-year member of the Murray State Men’s Basketball team, he was chosen team captain, while also winning two Ohio Valley Conference Championships. He helped lead the Racers to 56 victories in his last two years there. He was a two year letter-winner at the University of South Alabama from 1994-1996 averaging 7.7 points as a freshman.
Floyd was an All-State player at McGill-Toolen High School in Mobile, he averaged 21 points, five rebounds, three assists and three steals as a junior to help lead the team to Class 6A state tournament.
He is a member of the National Association of Basketball coaches and Monroeville, Alabama Chamber of Commerce representative. He is married to Poppy and they have four kids (three girls and one boy) Peyton, Micah, Matalie and Preston.
