Name: Jim Reid
Title: Outside Linebackers
College: Maine
NFL: First Season
Dolphins: First Season

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Jim Reid was appointed to his first NFL coaching position on January 28, 2008 when he was named the Dolphins’ outside linebackers coach. Reid brings with him a bevy of experience as a coach in the collegiate ranks.

In fact, of Reid’s 34 seasons as a coach, half were spent as a head coach, most recently at Virginia Military Institute, where he guided that program for the last two years. He also served as head coach at the University of Massachusetts from 1986-91 and at Richmond from 1995-2003. In Reid’s six years as the head coach at UMass, the school produced a composite record of 36-29-1 as he guided the Minutemen to three Yankee Conference titles. In 1988, he was named the Yankee Conference Coach of the Year. His nine-year run at Richmond included a pair of Atlantic 10 Conference championships and five finishes in the Top 20 in the Division I-AA ranks. He also was selected as the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year on two occasions (1998, 2000) and was the Yankee Conference co-Coach of the Year once (1995). Prior to taking over the head spot at UMass, Reid spent the previous 13 seasons at the school as an assistant, including the first two as a graduate assistant. Six of those 13 seasons resulted in a Yankee Conference title. Following his tenure at UMass, he spent the next three seasons as a defensive coordinator, the first two at Richmond (1992-93) and the final one at Boston College (1994). After his stint as head coach with the Spiders, Reid spent the 2004 season as an assistant at Syracuse and 2005 as an assistant at Bucknell. In that ’04 season, he served on an SU staff headed up by Dolphins’ defensive coordinator Paul Pasqualoni, then the head coach with the Orange.

Reid earned his degree in education from the University of Maine where he was a three-year starter as a safety on the school’s football team (1970-72). He earned his master’s degree in sports management from the University of Massachusetts. He and his wife, Judy, have two daughters, Meghan and Molly, and a son, Matt.