Southeast Missouri State University
REDHAWKS FOOTBALL
ASSISTANT COACHES LORENZO BRINKLEY WIDE RECEIVERS
Fourth Season Nebraska (1993)
Lorenzo Brinkley is in his fourth year as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri State University. He is in charge of the wide receivers. Brinkley came to the Southeast program from Beaumont High School in St. Louis, Mo., where he was head coach and offensive coordinator from 2003-2005. Brinkley also served as defensive coordinator, head track coach and head coach for the junior varsity girls basketball program during his time at Beaumont. From 1990-94, Brinkley held various summer camp coaching positions at the University of Nebraska. While at Nebraska, he played under head coach Tom 2009 SOUTHEAST STATE Osborne from 1989-1994.MISSOURI Brinkley was partFOOTBALL of two Big Eight title teams and was named the Defensive Player of the Game against Missouri in 1993. He was also a member of two national championship teams at Nebraska (1993 and 1994 Orange Bowls). As a prep, Brinkley played football at Hazelwood Central High School (St. Louis), where he was an all-Metro star for a team that appeared in three-consecutive state championship games. Brinkley earned his bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from Nebraska. He and his wife, Candace, have a daughter, Brandi, and two sons, Lorenzo, III and Lucas Brinkley.
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TROY DUMAS LINEBACKERS
Second Season Nebraska (1995)
Troy Dumas is in his second season as the linebackers coach at Southeast Missouri State University. Dumas is a former AllAmerican linebacker at Nebraska and played in the National Football League with the Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams and Denver Broncos. Dumas was the position coach for two all-conference linebackers (Nick Stauffer, Philip Klaproth) in his first year on the Redhawks coaching staff. Dumas was the third-round draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in 1995, and played both linebacker and special teams with that organization from 1995-97. He received an NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship with the Kansas City Chiefs in the summer of 2008, which allowed him to participate in on-field coaching, meetings, player evaluations and film sessions during the Chiefs training camp in River Falls, Wis. Dumas came to Cape Girardeau after serving as the defensive coordinator at Doane College, an NAIA institution in Crete, Neb. He was responsible for the the defense and assisted with recruiting. He was also the position coach for the middle and outside linebackers. Dumas played college football as a defensive back and linebacker at the University of Nebraska under Tom Osborne from 1991-94. He was a member of four-straight Big Eight Conference championship teams that competed in the Federal Express Orange Bowl four seasons in a row. Dumas, who hails from Riverside, Calif., graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources and Family Sciences from Nebraska in 1995.
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