Former Cortland player and assistant coach Bill Spicer re-joined the Red Dragon coaching staff in May 2022 as the program's tight ends coach and assistant offensive line coach.
During Cortland's 2023 national championship season, the Red Dragons ranked seventh nationally in Division III in total offense (509.2 yards/game), eighth in scoring offense (46.2 points/game) and 18th in rushing offense (224.9 yards/game).
From 1999-2005, Spicer led a powerhouse program at Onondaga Central. The program won New York State Class D titles in 2001 and 2003 and a Class C crown in 2002. Spicer was named New York State Coach of the Year in those respective classes each of those years and received the President Gerald R. Ford All-American Football Coach Award in 2003. His Onondaga teams had a combined 68-8 record and featured future collegiate and NFL stars Mike Hart and Latavius Murray. Spicer was an assistant coach at Onondaga in 1998.
Spicer served as defensive coordinator and defensive assistant coach at Baldwinsville High School from 2013-21. Prior to Baldwinsville, he was an assistant coach at Hamilton College from 2006-13.
A Canastota, N.Y., native, Spicer graduated from Chittenango High in 1990 and played at Baldwinsville for three years prior to moving to Chittenango. An all-state offensive lineman as a senior, Spicer played two seasons at Southern Connecticut State University before transferring to Cortland to play in 1992 and 1993. He then served as Cortland's JV head coach in 1994 and as an assistant coach in 1995 before taking an assistant coaching position at Woodmont High in Greenville, S.C., from 1996-97.
