Tony Thompson enters his first season as the special teams analyst at Texas A&M after joining Coach Elko’s staff in spring of 2026.
Thompson comes to Aggieland after spending time at both Purdue (2025) as the team’s senior special teams analyst and West Virginia (2021-24) associate special teams coordinator and specialists’ coach.
While working with the Mountaineers, Thompson organized, implemented and maintained all aspects of game analysis, including direct oversight of special teams game planning, analyzed game film and formulated game plans to assist with game preparation.
He served as an assistant coach at Stony Brook from 2009-21, coaching the outside linebackers (2007-08, 2011-12, 2020), the defensive line (2009-10), and serving as the special teams coordinator (2013-20). He also was the academic liaison for the football program from 2009-20. He recruited three NFL players, coached an all-conference kicker (2011, 12), punter (2013), specialists (2018, ‘21) and special teams player of the year (2021), All-American long snapper (2019) and the conference leader in field goal percentage (2019).
Prior to that, Thompson served as the linebackers coach and assisted the special teams coach at Hofstra (2006), served as the defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach at Franklin and Marshall (2003-05) and was the outside linebackers coach and assistant special teams coordinator at Pennsylvania (2001-02). He started his coaching career at Stony Brook, coaching the linebackers (1997-99) as a graduate/student assistant coach and the defensive line (2000).
As a linebacker and long snapper during his collegiate career, Thompson played for Stony Brook after transferring from Western Connecticut. He began coaching as a Stony Brook graduate assistant for outside linebackers in 1997, and he remained a full-time staff member until 2000, when he moved to the defensive line.
Thompson graduated from Stony Brook with his bachelor’s degree in history in 1997 and earned his master’s degree in arts and liberal studies with an advanced coaching certificate in 2000.
Thompson is married to the former Erin Martin of Beckley, W.Va., and they are the parents of Laney and Cade.