Terrence Graves enters his fourth season as a member of the Delta Devils football staff where he serves as the assistant head coach and linebackers coach.
Graves came to MVSU after completing fifteen (15) seasons as a member of the Southern University coaching staff in Baton Rouge. While at SU, he served as linebackers coach and a stint as the program’s defensive coordinator. He was also the special teams coordinator from 1997-2000, and a graduate assistant who worked with the defensive ends in 1994. Southern won three Southwestern Athletic Conference titles and three Black College national championships during Graves’ tenure. Southern also had the SWAC’s second-best pass defense (180.5 yards per game) in 2002 and led the league in total defense and scoring defense in 2001.
Prior to his time at Southern, he spent one season as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Norfolk State University. Graves, also spent one year as the assistant defensive backs and special teams coach at his lama mater, Winston-Salem State University.
Graves was a standout defensive back at Winston-Salem State in the early 1990s. He was a first-team All-CIAA performer in 1992, when led the team, was second in the conference and fifth nationally in Division II in interceptions. Graves, who was a part of two conference championship teams at WSSU, earned his bachelor’s in political science in 199. He is an active member of the American Football Coaches Association. Graves is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
A native of Norfolk, VA., Graves has one daughter, China.
