Randy Starks is the defensive line coach for the University of Maryland football program in College Park, Maryland, a position he assumed in February 2026. He returned to his alma mater after two seasons as head coach at Eureka College in Illinois, bringing experience from college, high school, and professional settings.
Before joining Maryland's staff, Starks coached at Eureka after earlier stops at Loughborough College, Bakersfield College, Fresno State, and LaGrange College. His coaching background also includes work with Henry E. Lackey High School and a head coaching stint at Manassas Park High School in 2021. He was the defensive line coach at LaGrange in 2022, then coached the defensive line at Loughborough in 2023 and at Bakersfield, where his duties also included recruiting support and playbook development. Earlier in his coaching career, he spent time with the New York Jets organization in 2018 as an assistant defensive line coach intern.
