Long-tenured collegiate football coach Tim Landis joined the Bloomsburg staff in March of 2024 as the Huskies’ offensive coordinator.
Landis oversaw an offense that produced 3,692 total yards (an average of 335.6 yards per game), including 1,520 rushing yards (3.4 yards per attempt, 119.4 per game) and 2,379 passing yards (9.44 yards per attempt, 216.3 per game). The Huskies tallied 34 offensive touchdowns and averaged 5.8 yards per play, while averaging 21.36 points per game. Under his guidance, the team achieved 53 third-down conversions on 131 tries (40.46%), though they trailed slightly on average time of possession (28:41 vs. opponents’ 31:19). Junior quarterback KJ Riley threw for 2,034 yards in 2024 and moved to ninth all-time at Bloomsburg in career passing yards with 4,323 and 30 touchdowns.
Landis came to Bloomsburg most recently from Lycoming College where he was the quarterbacks coach and special teams coordinator from 2012-2022. At Lycoming, Landis helped lead the team to the top of the MAC in several categories, leading the conference in blocked punts in 2015, net punting in 2016, PAT kicking and kickoff return defense in 2017, punt return defense in 2018 and both kick return and punt return defense in 2019. He has also coached six all-conference selections and an all-region selection on special teams.
In 2015, Landis mentored a new starting quarterback for the Warriors to one of the best performances in program history. The offense finished that year fourth in program history with 3,806 yards of total offense, while the team's average of 5.7 yards per play was also fourth in program history. In 2018, the Warriors led the conference in passing yards per completion (15.1), as Landis mentored the team's first freshman starter in 12 years.
In 2014, Landis helped the Warriors to an 8-2 overall record in his first year as quarterbacks coach, leading quarterback Tyler Jenny to one of the most memorable campaigns in program history, as he passed for 2,404 yards, 24 touchdowns and just six interceptions. He also earned all-conference honors. The team's offense racked up a school record 415.0 yards of total offense per game.
In his first year with the Warriors, Landis helped the team capture its 15th Middle Atlantic Conference title, as the team finished with a 7-3 overall record and a 7-2 mark in league play as the team's tight ends coach. He coached an all-conference tight end in Greg Kovacs ’14 and also helped transform the team’s special teams’ game into one that blocked five kicks, one shy of the school record, and led the MAC in net punting average (35.04) and kickoff return yardage (21.49).
After the football season in 2015, he stepped in as interim golf coach, coaching two all-conference selections, including the first women's player in program history to earn All-MAC honors in Hailey Fricke.
Prior to his arrival in Williamsport, Landis recorded an 89-103-1 record in 18 years as a collegiate head coach, recording 12 winning seasons during that span.
In 2011, he served as the head coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, posting a 4-5 overall record and a 3-3 mark in the Liberty League. He spent the 2010 season as the tight ends coach at San Jose State University, where he also served as the offensive coordinator.
No stranger to Central Pennsylvania, Landis was the head coach at Bucknell University from 2003-09, leading the Bison to a .500 or better record three times and compiling a 32-46 record. His teams were among the best FCS schools in rushing offense, finishing in the top 10 in 2003, 2004 and 2006. The 2003 (6-6) and 2004 (7-4) teams both finished in third place in the Patriot League.
Among the student-athletes Landis coached at Bucknell were All-American and National Football League standout Sean Conover as well as Academic All-Americans Justin Gibson and David Frisbey.
Landis enjoyed similar success at St. Mary’s, as his teams finished .500 or better in each of his three seasons (2000-02). The 2000 squad finished fourth in the FCS in rushing offense (309.5 yards per game) and the Gaels broke numerous school offensive records. With a 6-5 record in 2001 and 6-6 in 2002, Landis was named the Division I-AA Independent Coach of the Year.
He began his collegiate head coaching career at Davidson, starting in 1993 when he was one of the youngest Division I head coaches at age 29. He helped turn the Wildcats around, guiding the team to school single-season records of eight wins in 1998 (8-2) and again in 1999 (8-3), his final year. Four of his teams finished better than .500 as he compiled a record of 35-36-1.
In his final season at Davidson, the defense led the nation with a school-record 28 interceptions. Landis' special teams unit blocked a FCS (then Division I-AA) record 13 kicks in 1999, and the defense allowed only 101 rushing yards per game to rank 13th in the nation.
In 1998, the Wildcats ranked first nationally in pass efficiency defense, second in scoring defense, fourth in total defense and 12th in rushing defense.
A native of Yardley, Pa., and a 1982 graduate of The Hun School in Princeton, N.J., Landis earned a bachelor’s in English from Randolph-Macon College in 1986. An All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) First Team honoree both as a quarterback in football and a pitcher in baseball, Landis was the ODAC Baseball Player of the Year in 1986 and earned the school's Compton Award for excellence in academics and athletics. In 2002, he was inducted into The Hun School's Hall of Fame, and in 2000, was inducted into the Randolph-Macon Athletic Hall of Fame.
His first coaching position was a one-year stint at Randolph-Macon, mentoring the wide receivers in 1986.
In 1988, he began a three-year tenure as head football and baseball coach at Morrisville (Pa.) High School in the suburban Philadelphia area, where he led the football team to an 8-2 record and a state ranking while capturing numerous Coach of the Year honors. He also guided the baseball team to a conference championship. During his final two years at the school, he also served as athletics director.
Landis returned to the collegiate level in 1991, when he was hired as the defensive line coach at Davidson.
Landis and his wife Karen, have three sons, T.J., Jack and Charlie, and one daughter, Jordan. They reside in Lewisburg.
Update 9/1/24
