Theron Achy joined the Tennessee State University football staff for the 2022 season as the offensive coordinator after one season at UTEP.
Aych was appointed inside wide receivers coach at UTEP in February, 2021.
Prior to his time at UTEP, the 20-year coaching veteran spent the last four seasons (2017-20) as the wide receivers and tight ends coach at the University of Arizona.
He was on the Houston staff from 2000-02, working with the running backs, tight ends and specialists.
Despite Arizona's heavy lean on the run game in 2017, Aych’s receivers were a consistent and critical force for the Wildcats' explosive offense. Shun Brown, Shawn Poindexter, Tony Ellison and Cedric Peterson were all regular starters. In addition to combining for 108 receptions for 1,522 yards and 12 touchdowns, the quartet emerged as willing blockers on the perimeter to set up long rushing plays. Arizona was tied for the national lead with 28 runs of at least 30 yards. This offense featured Brown, who was an honorable mention All-Pac-12 performer. He led the team with 43 catches for 573 yards and six touchdowns. Ellison wasn’t far behind with 37 catches and five TD's, along with a 16.2 yards per catch average to lead all the receivers.
In his only season with the Miners, Aych coached a wide receiver unit that helped haul in 21 receiving touchdowns, the most for the program since 2010. The balance provided in the pass game allowed UTEP to improve its per-game scoring by nearly a touchdown from 20.7 points per game in 2015 to 26.3 points per game in 2016. Additionally, receiver Terry Juniel was named honorable mention All-Conference USA.
Prior to 2016, Aych served as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at Angelo State for five seasons from 2011-15, where he was named a finalist for the Division II AFCA Assistant Coach of the Year award.
Under Aych, the Rams’ offense put up staggering numbers in 2015, leading the nation (Division II) in total offense with over 560 yards per game and ranking seventh in points per game (42.5). Senior quarterback Kyle Washington, under Aych’s tutelage, threw for 3,691 yards (Angelo State single-season record), ranking sixth in the nation. Washington registered 27 passing scores and only nine interceptions. Washington also rushed for 831 yards and 15 scores as he led the nation in total offense and broke ASU’s single-season record for total yards with 4,522. Washington was named the Lone Star Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
In 2014, Angelo State averaged 39.4 points per contest, while also racking up 469.7 yards of total offense per game as the Rams registered a 9-3 overall record that season. Washington set a single-season school record by throwing for 34 touchdowns and becoming the first Ram in history to throw for more than 3,000 yards (3,236 total).
Aych previously spent four seasons at Central Missouri in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association from 2004-07. During his time with the Mules, Aych coached tight end Delanie Walker, who was drafted as a wide receiver in the 2006 NFL Draft after an impressive collegiate career.
Prior to his time at Central Missouri, Aych spent a season at the University of Washington on the other side of the line of scrimmage, assisting with the outside linebackers and punters as a defensive graduate assistant. Aych coached two Huskies – linebackers Marquis Cooper and Greg Carothers – who signed NFL contracts. Cooper was an All-Pac-10 selection in 2003 and a fourth-round round selection of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
While at the University of Houston, Aych coached running back Joffrey Reynolds, who was named the C-USA Offensive Player of the Year by The Sporting News. Reynolds rushed for over 1,500 yards in 2002.
The Zachary, La., native has also coached at the junior college level – Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College and Mesabi Range (Va.) Community College – and the high school level at Aberdeen (S.D.) Central.
Aych earned three letters as a wide receiver at Northern State University in Aberdeen and was an All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Honorable Mention selection. He earned a degree in sociology and criminal justice from NSU in 1996.
Aych has two children, Tommy and Katelyn.
