Mark Snyder
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title |
Linebackers coach Special teams coordinator |
| Team | Michigan State |
| Conference | Big Ten |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
December 30, 1964 South Point, Ohio |
| Playing career | |
| 1985–1988 | Marshall |
| Position(s) | Safety |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1988 | Marshall (SA) |
| 1989 | UCF (GA) |
| 1990 | UCF (LB) |
| 1991–1996 | Youngstown State (OLB/ST/LB/DC/DB) |
| 1996–2000 | Minnesota (DE) |
| 2001–2004 | Ohio State (LB/DC) |
| 2005–2009 | Marshall |
| 2010–2011 | South Florida (DC/LB) |
| 2012–2014 | Texas A&M (DC) |
| 2015–present | Michigan State (LB/ST) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 22–37 |
Mark Snyder (born December 30, 1964) is an American football coach who is the current linebackers coach and special teams coordinator for the Michigan State Spartans. He previously served as the defensive coordinator of the Texas A&M Aggies. He is the former head coach of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team in Huntington, West Virginia. Snyder was the 28th head coach for the football squad after a four-year tenure as a defensive coordinator with Ohio State University.
The South Point, Ohio, native is a 1988 graduate of Marshall. Snyder played in 1987 for the football squad, leading the Southern Conference with 10 interceptions and was second on the team with 124 tackles his senior year at Marshall and helped lead the Herd to a landmark come from behind win at Louisville and a berth in Marshall's first-ever national championship game. He captured honorable mention All-America honors and first-team All-Southern Conference honors that season as the Thundering Herd posted a 10-5 overall record and finished as national runners-up to Northeast Louisiana (43-42) in the 1987 Division 1-AA National Championship game. Snyder's 10 interceptions in 1987 still stands as the Marshall and Southern Conference single-season record.
After graduating from Marshall, the following fall he began his coaching career as a student assistant coach for the Herd. He moved on to the UCF Knights the following year and spent two seasons there, the first as a graduate assistant and the second coaching linebackers.
In 1991, Snyder joined Jim Tressel at Youngstown State University as the outside linebacker coach. Snyder was given special teams and inside linebacker responsibilities in 1994, and then promoted to defensive coordinator and secondary coach in 1996. During his tenure at Youngstown State, the Penguins won three NCAA Division 1-AA national championships and played in four consecutive national championship games, facing Marshall in three of those contests (1991, 1992, and 1993).
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