Cam Aiken joins ETSU's coaching staff as the Bucs' offensive coordinator after spending the last two seasons as a member of Lane Kiffin’s staff at Ole Miss as an analyst. In 2024, the Rebels ranked second nationally in total offense per game (521.3 yards per game) and seventh in scoring offense (37.5 PPG). The year before in 2023 Aiken helped Ole Miss go 11-2 and a win in the Peach Bowl over Penn State. It was the first time in the 130 seasons of Ole Miss football that the team won 11 or more games in a season.
Before going to the SEC, Aiken spent two seasons at USF as the running backs coach and run game coordinator. During his second season with the Bulls, Aiken coached just the sixth 1,000-yard rusher in program history and first since 2018, as sophomore Brian Battie ran for a career-best 1,186 yards and eight touchdowns to finish second in rushing in the AAC and log the sixth-best rushing season in USF history. Battie tied a USF record with five-straight 100-yard rushing games to end the 2022 campaign and his seven 100-yard games on the year rank third all-time in a season at USF. His 98.8 yards per game average ranked fifth in program history and his 6.7 yards per carry ranked fourth. Battie also set a program record with 1,936 all-purpose yards, adding 659 kick return yards and 91 receiving yards to his rushing total. With two seasons as Aiken as his position coach, Battie moved into No. 7 on USF’s career rushing charts with 1,842 yards.
The Bulls posted seven 200-yard rushing games in 2022, had 10 100-yard rushers in a game, and posted 25 rushing touchdowns for the second-straight year. The USF rushing offense ranked 29th nationally posting 197.9 YPG (the 5th-best mark in USF history) and posted 5.4 yards per carry (3rd all-time at USF) and 6.1 yards per play (4th all-time at USF).
In his first season of 2021, he helped guide junior running back Jaren Mangham to a team-leading 671 yards and 15 touchdowns, which ranked eighth nationally and is tied for the second-most rushing touchdowns in program history. The Bulls also ran for a program-record 421 yards vs. Temple (10/23) as Mangham (152) and Kelley Joiner (126) both ran for 100 yards in the game.
Aiken joined the USF staff after working on Dabo Swinney’s Clemson staff for nine seasons. He was part of six College Football Playoff runs and a pair of national championships at Clemson.
Aiken served last season as a senior offensive assistant at Clemson, helping the Tigers to once again return to the College Football Playoff as he worked closely with offensive coordinator Tony Elliott. Aiken assisted with the weekly offensive game plan and coaching the Tiger’s running backs as he helped Clemson to rank second in the ACC and 10th nationally in total offense (502.3 YPG) and lead the conference and rank third nationally in points per game (43.5) points per game. Trevor Lawrence had a standout season as he completed 69.2 percent of his passes and threw for 3,153 and 24 touchdowns, while Travis Etienne rushed for 914 yards and scored 14 touchdowns in 12 games.
Aiken, who was listed among 247 Sports 30 under 30 college football rising starts in 2018, served the previous five seasons (2015-19) as an offensive player development coach working with the Tiger’s quarterbacks and running backs. He worked on a day-to-day basis with the offensive coordinators and quarterbacks coach and assisted in weekly offensive game planning. Clemson won the ACC title and appeared in the College Football Playoff every year between 2015-20 and won national championships in 2016 and 2018.
Before his second stint with Clemson, Aiken worked as a graduate assistant at UAB during the 2014 season, where he worked primarily with the Blazers’ quarterbacks.
His first coaching experience came as an offensive intern on the Clemson staff from the 2011-13 seasons, where he worked with the Tigers' quarterbacks, cataloged all the concepts of the Tiger’s no-huddle offense and broke down opposing defenses to create scouting reports.
Aiken earned a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Clemson in 2011. He and his wife, Ashleigh, have two sons.
