Coach Maurice Flowers returns to Fayetteville State University as Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach for the Broncos. He spent the 2018-19 season in the SWAC (Southwestern Athletic Conference) at Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU). Under his leadership, the MVSU offense saw immediate success with gains in scoring average, total yards per game and rush yards per game. Wide Receiver Booker Chambers thrived in the Flowers’ Offense and was ultimately selected for the All SWAC team.
In 2017, Flowers helped lead the Broncos to the CIAA Southern Division champion title and advance to the CIAA Championship game for the first time since 2009. The 2017-18 Broncos offense climbed from near the bottom of the CIAA in production, to become a top contender in almost every Offensive category in the conference. In that first year Flowers’ leadership produced three All CIAA selections (RB Stevie Green, OL Tyreek Bailey, OL Greg Brooks), the CIAA Offensive Rookie of the Year (RB Donshell Jetton) and two CIAA All-Rookie Team members (QB Richard Latimer, WR Bruce Davis).
The SIAC (Southern Intercollegiate Athletics Conference) is also no stranger to Flowers’ abilities on the field. As Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach Flowers helped Miles College capture the 2015 SIAC Championship earning four players honors on the All SIAC Team (QB David Whipple, TB JaMarcus Nance, OL Terrance Owens, OL Chris Ruffin). Flowers served as Quarterback Coach at Campbell University in 2016, a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) program, for a brief stint before being wooed back to Miles at the start of the ’16 season.
Flowers began his college coaching career in the CIAA first as Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at his alma mater Johnson C. Smith University and later in the same role at Shaw University. In his first season as a collegiate coordinator, QB Ryan Carter led the CIAA in passing in 2010. The 2011 season Freshman QB Keahn Wallace earned CIAA Rookie of the Year and the Pioneer Bowl MVP serving notice that the Flowers’ Offense was fun to watch, fundamentally sound and produced champions. Under Flowers’ leadership Shaw University QB James Stallons set the school’s single season passing record for yards and touchdown passes in 2012. The following year, Running Back Marquise Grizzle led the CIAA in rushing and went on to become the all-time leading rusher in Shaw history.
A native of South Bend, Indiana, Flowers has lived and coached all over the country. He spent the early part of his career coaching high school in the football powerhouse state of Texas in the greater Dallas area. He returned to the Carolinas as a head coach in Charlotte, first at Olympic High School then West Charlotte High School before moving on to Chester High School in South Carolina. Flowers transition from high school to college was seamless; his college-level quarterbacks and offenses have flourished under his teaching and supervision, just as his high school players and offenses produced. In his high school coaching career Flowers coached in some of the biggest games these tradition-rich football states have to offer, from playoffs to state championship games. In his ten years as a high school head coach, Flowers produced conference championship teams, and a multitude of All Conference, All State and All Star student-athlete honors, Shrine Bowl selection and other honors including 2007 North Carolina Associated Press Player of the Year in QB Darius Thomas. He’s coached more than 50 players to earn college scholarships including QB Tony McNeal (Clemson). Coach Flowers is known as a “quarterback whisperer” with notable names like QB Antonio Miller (Olympic HS / University of Tennessee Chattanooga) #14 ranked quarterback in US in 2003, quarterbacks CJ and Chris Leake and the #6 overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft Daniel Jones as part of his training roster. Several of his former players have gone on to have successful coaching careers citing Coach Flowers as their career inspiration.
Coach Flowers is a sought-after speaker and author. He’s been a featured speaker at American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) national conventions and the acclaimed Glazier Football Clinics, presenting to national audiences of high school and college coaches. He attended East Mecklenburg High School where he was All-Conference in both football and basketball. He was named College Football Preview Magazine All-American Quarterback three years in a row while as serving as team captain for the JCSU Golden Bulls. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. He and his wife Tonya are the proud parents of three daughters, Madison, Meghan and Tomi. The Flowers family is very passionate about giving back and Coach Flowers is most passionate about causes supporting cancer research having lost his mother Dennise Franklin to breast cancer.
