Patterson Adds New TE Coach to Staff
2/11/2025 10:25:00 PM | Football
ABILENE – ACU head football coach Keith Patterson announced Tuesday that he has hired Stanton Keane as the Wildcats' tight ends coach. Last year's tight ends coach, Jason Smith, is now the Wildcats' running backs coach.
Keane coached with new ACU offensive coordinator Graham Harrell at Purdue (2023 and 2024), West Virginia (2022), and USC (2020 and 201). At each stop, he worked with Harrell coaching quarterbacks, and at Purdue, he was the Senior Offensive Quarterbacks Analyst.
While at Purdue, Keane and Harrell were responsible for coaching and mentoring quarterbacks. He worked directly with Harrell on implementing weekly game plans and led recruiting efforts. In 2022, while at West Virginia, he organized and analyzed all practice, game, and opponent film for the offensive staff. He also planned and developed self-scout and opponent scouting reports.
"Stanton will be a tremendous asset to our coaching staff," Patterson said. "He has an excellent understanding of our offense and familiarity with Graham and how he likes to work. Stanton will do an outstanding job for us."
He also coached with Harrell at USC in 2020 and 2021, working as an offensive graduate assistant. In 2020, USC's passing offense ranked 11th nationally (first in Pac-12) at 319.3 yards per game. Quarterback Kedon Slovis made the All-Pac-12 first team while ranking in the national Top 20 in completions (first at 29.5), passing yards (sixth at 320.2), total offense (13th at 310.7), and completion percentage (18th at .670), all tops in the Pac-12.
He spent the 2018 season as an offensive graduate assistant at Texas Tech and was in private business in 2019. He was also a student coach at Texas Tech in 2016 and 2017.
Keane was a fullback at Texas Tech in 2014, when he redshirted, and 2015, when he appeared in 3 games (primarily on special teams) before suffering a season-ending knee injury. He earned his bachelor's in energy commerce from Texas Tech in 2018. He starred in football and baseball at Cooper High in Lubbock (Tex.).
He and his wife, Pamela, were married in July 2021.
