Levi Brown came to VSU in 2019 from Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. Brown is in his second season as quarterbacks coach for the Blazers.
In 2019, Brown coached the Blazer passing attack to 261.9 yards per game for 33rd nationally and helped lead VSU to average 38.9 points per game for 20th nationally and first in the Gulf South Conference. He guided two-time GSC Player of the Year, two-time Halon Hill finalist and two-time All-America Rogan Wells to another outstanding season as he finished 23rd nationally in passing yards (2,650), tenth nationally in passing efficiency (165.1) and 19 passing touchdowns for second in the GSC. Brown coached an attack were part of an offense that averaged 522.1 yards per game for third nationally. VSU won its second-straight Gulf South Conference title with an 8-0 record and was 10-1 for the season earning a berth in the second round of the NCAA playoffs.
Prior to Faulkner Brown began his coaching career in 2014 as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Mount Juliet High School in Tennessee. He returned to his alma mater in 2016 at Troy University, where he spent the 2016 and 2017 seasons working with the quarterbacks for the Trojans.
Brown was a two-year letterman at the University of Richmond and a two-year letterwinner at Troy where, in his senior season, he threw for 4,254 yards, broke the Troy and Sun Belt Conference single season passing yardage records, finished second nationally in passing yards and was named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year.
He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round of the 2010 NFL Draft. Brown spent two seasons with the Bills and one season each with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 2010, and a master's degree in sport and fitness management in 2017, both from Troy University.
Brown is engaged to Maria Martin and they plan on getting married in April of 2020.
