Andre Crenshaw came to Coastal Carolina University’s football staff in early 2025 to coach the running backs.
He spent the previous two seasons coaching the backs under current CCU OC Drew Hollingshead at Western Kentucky.
WKU averaged over 100-yards per game on the ground a season ago (108.9) and scored 145 rushing touchdowns. Elijah Young averaged 63+ yards per game and scored three times.
Crenshaw helped the Hilltoppers to one of the top-producing offenses in Conference USA. WKU finished the year second in the league in scoring with 30.5 points per game, and the Hilltoppers' 50 offensive touchdowns in 2023 ranked second in CUSA.
Crenshaw came to WKU from South Dakota State where he served as Running Backs Coach during the team's run to winning the 2022 FCS National Championship. He spent two seasons with the Jackrabbits, leading one of the best running backs rooms in the country. In his first season with SDSU, he mentored Pierre Strong Jr., who led the FCS in rushing with 1,686 yards. Strong went on to be selected by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the NFL Draft. During the national championship season, Crenshaw's star pupil was Isaiah Davis, who produced 1,451 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns on the ground.
Before arriving in South Dakota, Crenshaw coached running backs at Southeast Missouri State during the pandemic-shortened season. Despite playing only eight games that year, Crenshaw helped running back Geno Hess gain 708 yards rushing with 12 touchdowns.
Crenshaw began his coaching career as a Graduate Assistant at Dakota Wesleyan before moving on to Morehead State for two seasons and spending the 2017 campaign at Tennessee Tech. In 2018, he moved to Missouri Western where he helped the Griffins average 219.5 rushing yards per game, ranking among the top-25 of all Division II programs that season.
A native of Lancaster, California, Crenshaw attended the University of Oregon from 2006-09 where he played running back and earned his bachelor's degree in sociology. He later earned a master's degree in educational policy and administration from Dakota Wesleyan in 2015.
