Terry Sims is an experienced college football coach with a career spanning over two decades. After playing as a defensive back at Knoxville College, he began his coaching journey there in 1994. Sims held various assistant coaching positions at institutions like Louisville, Austin Peay, Texas Southern, Prairie View A&M, Louisiana–Lafayette, and Howard University. In 2010, he joined Bethune–Cookman University's football progr
am and was promoted to head coach in 2015. During his seven-season tenure, he led the Wildcats to a 38–39 overall record, securing a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) co-championship and Coach of the Year honors in his inaugural season. Under his leadership, the team achieved five consecutive victories over rival Florida A&M in the Florida Classic. After parting ways with Bethune–Cookman in 2022, Sims was appointed as the Director of Football Operations at Alabama State University in 2023.
