Brock Willis, a former WKU student assistant and quality control coach under David Elson from 2007-09, enters his first season as a quality control coach on The Hill where he works primarily with special teams.
Willis spent the last four seasons at South Florida where he worked as an analyst for the program working primarily with special teams. In the 2016 Birmingham Bowl, Willis assumed interim special teams coordinator duties for the No. 22 Bulls as they defeated South Carolina 46-39.
Prior to USF, Willis spent one season (2012) as a graduate assistant, working with the defensive backs, at New Mexico State. That season, All-WAC team member Jeremy Harris was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the seventh round of the 2013 NFL Draft. Willis also spent two seasons at Bethel University (Tenn.) as safeties coach where he helped Darian Jones (2011) and Derrick Williams (2010) to All-Mid South West Division Honors.
Willis played collegiately at Kentucky Wesleyan in 2006 before transferring to WKU where he earned his degree in business and marketing education.
