Wofford Oran "Buddy" Stephens Jr. is an American junior college football coach. He is the former head football coach at East Mississippi Community College, where he has won five NJCAA National Football Championships and coached future National Football League (NFL) players such as Chad Kelly, Jarran Reed and Dakota Allen.
Stephens is known as the head coach from the first two seasons of the Netflix series Last Chance U. He has won more games at EMCC than any other coach in history. He is also well known for the implementing of the informal "Buddy Stephens rule", the running clock rule of the Mississippi Association of Community College Conference where the clock will run continuously in the second half if a team is leading by 38 or more points.
Stephens played college football for Pearl River and Delta State, both as a center and guard. After serving as an assistant football and girls' soccer coach at Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he was hired at Pearl River in 2001.
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External links East Mississippi profile