COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Head Football Coach Barry Odom finalized his assistant coaching staff today, announcing that he's added veteran coach Jackie Shipp to the lineup.  Shipp, who has coached defensive line for all but one year of his accomplished 25-year-career, has coached in four national championship games, including the 2001 Orange Bowl, where his alma mater Oklahoma won the BCS National Championship.

Shipp comes to Mizzou after spending the last three seasons (2013-15) mentoring the defensive line at Arizona State, where the Sun Devils reached bowl games each year.  Prior to that, Shipp annually guided some of the nation's most disruptive defensive lines at Oklahoma from 1999-2012, during which the Sooners reached BCS title games four times overall (2001, 2004, 2005 and 2009).  He also spent the 1998 season at Alabama as defensive line coach.  Each of his teams from 1998 through 2015 have reached a post-season bowl game, giving him an active streak of 18 consecutive seasons having coached in a bowl.

Shipp is a former recipient of the All-American Football Foundation Mike Campbell Top Assistant Coach Award and has been named by Rivals.com as a Top 25 recruiter nationally.  Details of Shipp's contract will be released once fully executed, along with the completion of human resources procedures.

"I'm thrilled that we have the opportunity to welcome Coach Shipp to the Mizzou family," said Odom.  "He has had great success throughout his career and that includes developing some of the best defensive linemen in college football.  I've seen him recruit with relentless energy and have always been impressed with how he gets his players to play the game.  I'm most excited about him leading and mentoring our student-athletes and providing them with a platform for success in life," he said.

"I'm very excited for this opportunity," said Shipp.  "I grew up in Stillwater, Okla., and I played in the Big Eight and coached in the Big 12, so I'm very aware of Mizzou's tradition.  I think back to greats like Phil Bradley, James Wilder, Leo Lewis and all of those teams, and I always have had great respect for Mizzou and their history.  Now, it's the SEC which we all know is considered the best league by so many, and Mizzou has already played for two league championships in a short time which is really impressive.  I'm excited to come to work with a great staff that Coach Odom has put together, it is a great situation all around to have success with.  I'm impressed with the track record that Coach Odom has already established, you look at what he's achieved at every level, and this is a guy who is going to make a great head coach.  I'm looking forward to helping him achieve big things," he said.

This past season, Arizona State's defense was very disruptive, as the Sun Devils led the nation in team sacks (3.54 per game), and ranked third nationally in team tackles for loss (8.5 p/g), while ASU also ranked 20^th nationally in rushing defense (125.9 avg.).  In 2014, Shipp mentored Marcus Hardison to Second-Team All-Pac-12 honors.  That year, the ASU defensive line finished with 39 sacks (13^th in the nation) and 98 tackles for loss (11^th in the nation).  In 2013, Shipp continued the development of defensive lineman Will Sutton, one of the Pac-12's most dominant interior linemen in recent memory.  Sutton would go on to be named the Pac-12's Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.  Sutton, who was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft, was also a two-time Morris Trophy Award winner and AP All-American.

Before arriving at ASU, Shipp, a former NFL linebacker who helped lead the Miami Dolphins to the 1985 Super Bowl, spent 14 years coaching the defensive line for head coach Bob Stoops at the University of Oklahoma.  Shipp was hired by Stoops on his original staff at Oklahoma in 1999 and proceeded to coach with the Sooners in their 2001 National Championship win (13-2) over Florida State.

Shipp's Oklahoma defensive fronts consistently ranked near the top of the NCAA and the Big 12 in rushing defense.  From a player development standpoint, he mentored three All-Americans at OU, including two-time recipients Tommie Harris (Lombardi Award recipient in 2003) and Gerald McCoy (Lombardi Award finalist in 2009) and, numerous all-conference performers and a host of NFL players, including a pair of Pro Bowlers. Under Shipp's tutelage, Oklahoma ranked in the top 16 nationally in quarterback sacks five of his last eight seasons.  During that same stretch the Sooners ranked in the top 17 nationally in tackles for loss.

Shipp played collegiately at Oklahoma (1980-83), where he was a standout linebacker, starring on Sooner squads that posted a combined 33-14-1 record, won two bowl games and captured the 1980 Big Eight Championship.  Shipp earned All-Big Eight Conference honors as a junior and senior and was selected as an All-American by The Football News following his junior campaign.  He still holds the all-time OU record for tackles in a single game with 23 and tackles in a single season with 189 (12 games as a sophomore in 1981).  In the 1982 border clash with Texas, Shipp set the school single-game record with 23 tackles.  He still ranks second in career tackles at OU with 489.

A first-round draft pick who was the overall 14th player selected by the Miami Dolphins in 1984, Shipp played five seasons in Miami and helped the team to a 48-31 record, including an AFC Championship in 1984.  The Dolphins made two playoff appearances and advanced to the 1985 Super Bowl.  Shipp was the Dolphins' leading tackler with 79 in 1987 and finished his career in Miami with 231 tackles.  He would later play one year with the Los Angeles Raiders in 1988.

Shipp's coaching career began at Langston University in 1991 where he served as linebacker coach.  In 1992 he moved to Central Missouri State University, where he began his distinguished career coaching the defensive line.  After one year coaching the defensive line at the University of Tennessee at Martin (1993), Shipp was hired to coach the defensive line at Southern Illinois University in 1994, where he stayed three years.  During that time Shipp also completed coaching internships with the NFL's Green Bay Packers (1994) and Minnesota Vikings (1995-96).

In 1997 Shipp became the defensive line coach at Northeast Louisiana University (now Louisiana-Monroe) and then was hired in 1998 as defensive line coach at the University of Alabama.  After one year with the Crimson Tide Shipp was lured back to his alma mater as defensive line coach.

Shipp was just shy of earning his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma when his playing days concluded there, and after his professional career ended, he finished up his degree work at Langston University, where he earned a degree in economics and finance in 1992.  He later did master's level work while coaching at Central Missouri State.  He graduated from and played football for Donart High School in 1980 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he was raised.

Shipp has two children, a son Christopher and a daughter Kaitlin.

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