Cleive Adams
American football coach (born c. 1968)
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Cleive Adams (born c. 1968) is an American athletic director and former college football coach. He is the athletic director for Ferrum College; a position he has held since 2023.[1][2] He was the head football coach for Averett University from 2014 to 2019 and Ferrum College from 2020 to 2023.[3][4][5][6] He also coached for Washington and Lee. He played college football for Ferrum and was inducted into the Ferrum Hall of Fame in 2019.[7]
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Athletic director |
| Team | Ferrum |
| Conference | Carolinas |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | c. 1968 (age 57–58) Radford, Virginia, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1987–1989 | Ferrum |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1998 | Ferrum (SA) |
| 2002–2003 | Ferrum (DL) |
| 2004 | Ferrum (DC) |
| 2005–2006 | Washington & Lee (ST/DL) |
| 2007–2013 | Ferrum (DC) |
| 2014–2019 | Averett |
| 2020–2023 | Ferrum |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2023–present | Ferrum |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 42–52 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| Ferrum Hall of Fame (2019) | |
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Averett Cougars (USA South Athletic Conference) (2014–2019) | |||||||||
| 2014 | Averett | 2–8 | 1–7 | T–8th | |||||
| 2015 | Averett | 2–7 | 2–4 | T–4th | |||||
| 2016 | Averett | 5–5 | 4–3 | T–4th | |||||
| 2017 | Averett | 6–4 | 5–2 | T–2nd | |||||
| 2018 | Averett | 8–2 | 6–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 2019 | Averett | 7–3 | 5–2 | T–2nd | |||||
| Averett: | 30–29 | 23–19 | |||||||
| Ferrum Panthers (Old Dominion Athletic Conference) (2020–2023) | |||||||||
| 2020–21 | Ferrum | 2–3 | 2–2 | 4th | |||||
| 2021 | Ferrum | 6–4 | 3–3 | T–4th | |||||
| 2022 | Ferrum | 1–9 | 1–6 | T–6th | |||||
| 2023 | Ferrum | 3–7 | 1–6 | 7th | |||||
| Ferrum: | 12–23 | 7–17 | |||||||
| Total: | 42–52 | ||||||||
