Sean Chase - Football Coach - Ball State University Athletics

Sean Chase

Title:
Tight Ends Coach
Phone:
765-285-8251
Email:
football@bsu.edu
Alma Mater:
Northern Illinois '15
Years at Ball State:
1st season in 2025
Years Coaching:
11th season in 2025

Sean Chase manages coaching duties for tight ends since arriving at Ball State in December 2024.

Prior to arriving with head coach Mike Uremovich in Muncie, Chase coached tight ends and running backs at Butler in 2023 and 2024 while serving as the program's run game coordinator.

With Chase managing the run game at Butler, the Bulldogs were prolific in his two seasons, averaging 11th among FCS teams in 2023 (202 yards per game) and eighth in 2024 (214 per game).

The 2023 backfield was led by PFL Offensive Player of the Year and third-team All-American Jyran Mitchell who ended the regular season with 1,268 rushing yards, the ninth-most ever at Butler in a single-season. He ranked fifth among all FCS running backs in rushing yards per game and seventh in total rushing yards. Without Mitchell in 2024, the 'Dawgs actually increased their rushing output.

Prior to his stint at Butler, Chase coached at Culver-Stockton College and Northern Illinois, rising all the way from a post as student equipment manager at NIU to, seven years later, his promotion as associate head coach at Culver-Stockton in 2022.

Over five years at NAIA Culver-Stockton in Canton, Missouri, Chase maneuvered from offensive line coach in 2018, to offensive coordinator in 2021 and associate head coach a year later – always while leading the offensive line. He even led the Wildcats to a 49-21 win as interim head coach in one game.

Chase began his stint at C-SC after two seasons as a graduate assistant at NIU. In 2019, he coached four all-conference offensive linemen. One of those, Andrew Rupcich, became an undrafted free agent with the Tennessee Titans in 2022. Another, Andrew Rowe, was named the Heart of America Conference freshman of the year for his play in the trenches.

By 2021, Chase was the Wildcats' offensive coordinator, helping the team post an 8-3 record and a school record for wins in a season.

Chase graduated from Northern Illinois in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and public communication, and served as the Huskies' head student equipment manager. After graduation, he stayed with the Huskies program for two years as a grad assistant with the offensive line, while Uremovich was assistant head coach and tight ends coach.

He is married to wife Michelle, with a son, Miles.