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{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1942)}}
{{other people||Michael Andrews (disambiguation)}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Mickey Andrews
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|5|20}}
| birth_place = [[Daleville, Alabama]], U.S.
| death_date = 
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| alma_mater = 
| player_years1 = 1961–1964
| player_team1 = [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]]
| player_positions = [[Wide receiver]], [[defensive back]]
| coach_years1 = 1965–1966
| coach_team1 = [[E.B. Erwin High School|Erwin HS (AL)]]
| coach_years2 = 1966–1967
| coach_team2 = [[Eastern Kentucky Colonels football|Eastern Kentucky]] (off. backs)
| coach_years3 = 1967–1969
| coach_team3 = [[West Alabama Tigers football|Livingston]]  (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 1970–1972
| coach_team4 = Livingston
| coach_years5 = 1973–1976
| coach_team5 = [[North Alabama Lions football|Florence State / North Alabama]]
| coach_years6 = 1977–1980
| coach_team6 = [[Clemson Tigers football|Clemson]] ([[Defensive coordinator|DC]])
| coach_years7 = 1981–1982
| coach_team7 = [[Florida Gators football|Florida]] (assistant)
| coach_years8 = 1983
| coach_team8 = [[Arizona Wranglers]] (DC)
| coach_years9 = 1984–2001
| coach_team9 = [[Florida State Seminoles football|Florida State]] (DC)
| coach_years10 = 2002–2009
| coach_team10 = Florida State (assoc. HC / DC)
| coach_years11 = 2018
| coach_team11 = Florida State (special assistant)
| overall_record = 41–28–3 (college)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 2–1 (NAIA D-I playoffs)
| championships = [[NAIA Football National Championship|NAIA Division I]] (1971)<br>[[Gulf South Conference|GSC]] (1971)
| awards = [[Broyles Award]] (1996)<br>[[Gulf South Conference|GSC]] Coach of The Year (1971)<br>Second-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1964 College Football All-America Team|1964]])
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'''Mickey Andrews''' (born May 20, 1942) is a former [[American football]] coach. He is most known for his tenure as the [[defensive coordinator]] at Florida State for 26 seasons, from 1984 to 2009, under head coach [[Bobby Bowden]]. Andrews also served as the head football coach at Livingston University—now known as the [[University of West Alabama]] from 1970 to 1972 and at the [[University of North Alabama]] from 1973 to 1976.

==College==
At the [[University of Alabama]], Andrews earned second-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-America]] honors as a [[wide receiver]] and [[defensive back]]. Andrews was also on two Alabama national championship teams (1961 and 1964) and played in three New Year's Day bowl games.

In college baseball, Andrews was an All-SEC choice. In 1964, he received the Hugo Friedman Award as Alabama's best all-around athlete.

==Career==
Under Andrews, Florida State became the top producer of All-America and [[National Football League]] caliber [[cornerback]]s in the nation. Andrews coached two [[Jim Thorpe Award]] winners and had an All-American cornerback for eight straight years, from 1987 to 1994. He had one consensus All-America selection in 2000. Seven of Andrews' defensive teams were among the top five nationally against the run since 1994. His 1998 defensive unit ranked No. 1 nationally in total defense and pass defense. On November 3, 2009, Andrews announced that he would retire as defensive coordinator after 26 seasons at Florida State. Andrews retired, along with [[Bobby Bowden]], at the end of the 2009 season and coached his final game in Florida State's victory over West Virginia on January 1, 2010, in the [[2010 Gator Bowl|Gator Bowl]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/college/fsu-seminoles/2010/01/01/mickey-andrews-also-bids-farewell-to-florida/15961067007/ | title=Mickey Andrews also bids farewell to Florida State }}</ref> He stayed on the university payroll until February 10, 2010, the anniversary date of his hiring by Bowden. On August 3, 2018, he was hired as special assistant to Willie Taggart, the head football coach at Florida State University.

==Personal==
Andrews was married to Diane, who died in 2012 of complications from stomach cancer. The couple had two children: Ronald David (Ronnie), who died in 2007, father of three children, and Shannon Nicole (now Stallworth) who has two children. Andrews still lives in Tallahassee.

==Accolades==
* 1971 [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics|NAIA]] National Championship at [[University of West Alabama]]
* 1994 University of West Alabama Hall of Fame
* 1996 Athlon Magazine's Assistant Coach of the Year
* 1996 [[Broyles Award]] as the nation's top assistant coach
* 1998 American Football Coach's Magazine's Defensive Coordinator of the Year

==Head coaching record==
===College===
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[West Alabama Tigers football|Livingston Tigers]]
 | conf      = [[Gulf South Conference|Mid-South Athletic Conference / Gulf South Conference]]
 | startyear = 1970
 | endyear   = 1972
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1970 NAIA Division I football season|1970]]
 | name         = Livingston
 | overall      = 4–5
 | conference   = 0–5
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = national
 | year         = [[1971 NAIA Division I football season|1971]]
 | name         = [[1971 Livingston Tigers football team|Livingston]]
 | overall      = 11–1
 | conference   = 5–1
 | confstanding = T–1st
 | bowlname     = [[NAIA Football National Championship|NAIA Division I Championship]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1972 NAIA Division I football season|1972]]
 | name         = Livingston
 | overall      = 8–1–2
 | conference   = 5–1
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | bowlname     = [[NAIA Football National Championship|NAIA Division I Semifinal]]
 | bowloutcome  = L
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Livingston
 | overall    = 23–7–2
 | confrecord = 10–7
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[North Alabama Lions football|Florence State / North Alabama Lions]]
 | conf      = [[Gulf South Conference]]
 | startyear = 1973
 | endyear   = 1976
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1973 NCAA Division II football season|1973]]
 | name         = [[1973 Florence State Lions football team|Florence State]]
 | overall      = 4–6
 | conference   = 3–6
 | confstanding = 9th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1974 NCAA Division II football season|1974]]
 | name         = [[1974 North Alabama Lions football team|North Alabama]]
 | overall      = 4–6
 | conference   = 4–4
 | confstanding = T–5th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1975 NCAA Division II football season|1975]]
 | name         = [[1975 North Alabama Lions football team|North Alabama]]
 | overall      = 6–4
 | conference   = 4–4
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1976 NCAA Division II football season|1976]]
 | name         = North Alabama
 | overall      = 4–5–1
 | conference   = 3–4–1
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Florence State / North Alabama
 | overall    = 18–21–1
 | confrecord = 14–18–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 41–28–3
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{West Alabama Tigers football coach navbox}}
{{North Alabama Lions football coach navbox}}
{{Navboxes
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{{1964 Alabama Crimson Tide football navbox}}
{{1993 Florida State Seminoles football navbox}}
{{1999 Florida State Seminoles football navbox}}
{{Broyles Award}}
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[[Category:Alabama Crimson Tide baseball players]]
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[[Category:Clemson Tigers football coaches]]
[[Category:Eastern Kentucky Colonels football coaches]]
[[Category:Florida Gators football coaches]]
[[Category:Florida State Seminoles football coaches]]
[[Category:North Alabama Lions football coaches]]
[[Category:West Alabama Tigers football coaches]]
[[Category:High school football coaches in Alabama]]
[[Category:People from Daleville, Alabama]]