Manny Michel

Michel played college football at Tennessee Tech University and is an alumnus of the university.^[1][2]

Michel began his coaching career in 1985 as an assistant football coach at Cumberland County High School in Crossville, Tennessee.^[3] He was an assistant coach at his alma mater, John Curtis Christian High School in River Ridge, Louisiana from 1986 to 1994.^[4]

Michel began his college coaching career at Nicholls State University as defensive coordinator and defensive line coach from 1995 to 1998.^[4][5] From 1999 to 2008, Michel became defensive line coach at the University of Louisiana-Monroe and became co-defensive coordinator along with Phil Elmassian in 2008.^[4] At ULM, Michel worked under head coaches Bobby Keasler, Mike Collins and Charlie Weatherbie.^[2][6] Starting with the 2009 season, Michel moved to McNeese State University as the defensive line coach and stayed at McNeese State through 2015.^[7][8][9] Michel returned to the University of Louisiana–Monroe as defensive line coach in 2016 and stayed in that role until retiring after the 2017 season.^[4][6] In 2020, Michel came out of retirement and took a position as assistant defensive line coach and defensive analyst at LSU.^[10]