Stanton Keane enters his first season as ACU's tight ends coach in 2025.

Keane has spent the past five seasons with new ACU offensive coordinator Graham Harrell at USC (2020-21), West Virginia (2022), and Purude (2023-24). At each stop, Keane worked with Harrell coaching quarterbacks. At Purdue, Keane was the senior offensive quarterbacks analyst.

With the Boilmakers, 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.

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 Lubbock-Cooper High School. 

He and his wife, Pamela, were married in July 2021.


Coach Keith Patterson says...
"Stanton brings a West Texas mentality to our right end room. He also has a great understanding of the expectations that offensive coordinator Graham Harrell has for our offense."