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Recruits: Central/South Jersey, NY (Section 2/3/7/10), North Florida (Jacksonville), Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama
Terry Dow continues to find success in the collegiate football coaching ranks. His status led to promotion before the 2019 season to co-offensive coordinator. He serves in that capacity with assistant coach Brent Bassham.
In 2019, Dow coached Nick Diaco to All-Patriot League First Team honors. The senior tight end led all Raider pass-catchers with a 14.1-yard average. His 366 yards were second on the team and his 26 catches third. Diaco also tied for the team lead with two touchdown receptions, but he added to that total by running for a score and throwing for another. Diaco rushed 13 times for a 5.7-yard average, including a 27-yard TD burst at Georgetown. He was a perfect 1-of-1 passing on the strength of his 4-yard toss against Fordham.
Colgate’s 2018 Patriot League championship season saw the Raiders finish seventh and eighth in the major national polls. Among Dow’s charges, Diaco was an All-Patriot League Second Team selection.
Dow helped coach the Raiders to the best running game in the Patriot League for the 11th time in last 12 seasons. Colgate also topped the conference in scoring offense at 27.0 and total offense at 344.3.
Colgate’s offensive attack kept getting better as the season progressed, scoring in succession during a six-game run 23, 27, 31, 38, 41 and 48 points. The Raiders paced the Patriot League and finished seventh nationally in time of possession at 32:57.
Dow in 2017 completed his 30th year coaching college football. He joined Hunt's staff on a full-time basis as an assistant coach in July 2014.
Dow's primary responsibility is with the tight ends and H-backs. He has coached three All-Patriot League tight ends in John Quazza (2014-15), Nick Martinsen (2016) and Diaco (2018). Quazza in 2014 and Diaco in 2019 were named recipients of the Andy Kerr Trophy, presented annually to Colgate's most valuable offensive player.
Dow previously coached at Colgate in 1991 under head coach Mike Foley, and he completed the 2013 season as a volunteer assistant for the Raiders under Dick Biddle. Dow served 16 years as head coach at nearby Morrisville State, helping reinstate the program in 1997 and eventually transitioning the Mustangs from the junior college ranks into the NCAA's Division III classification.
Throughout Dow's 16 seasons at Morrisville State, he claimed three NJCAA Northeast Football Conference championships and two Region III titles, while being named the NFC Coach of the Year twice. Dow coached 83 NFC All-Conference selections, six conference players of the year and 11 NJCAA All-America team selections.
For five consecutive seasons (2001-06), the NFC named one of Dow's student-athletes as its offensive or defensive player of the year.
Morrisville State's 2001 NFC Defensive Player of the Year and NJCAA All-American linebacker, Alex Lewis, was the first Mustang under Dow to be drafted into the NFL in 2004. Lewis was picked by the Detroit Lions in the fifth round of the annual draft. Curtis Johnson joined Lewis in the NFL in 2008, earning a position on the Indianapolis Colts roster as a defensive end. In 2016, former Mustang Wendell Williams played for the NFL's Houston Texans.
A 1990 graduate of Ithaca College with a bachelor's degree in physical education, Dow spent two seasons as a lineman under legendary Bombers head coach Jim Butterfield. He remained at Ithaca for three additional years and began his career as assistant coach for the offensive and defensive lines.
In 1991, Dow joined the football coaching staff at Colgate in charge of tight ends before accepting a coaching position at Monmouth in New Jersey.
Named offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Monmouth in 1993, Dow spent four seasons gaining vast knowledge and experience on the NCAA FCS level, bringing his experience to Morrisville State in 1997.
He and his wife are both locals. Dow grew up in Hamilton, while the former Brenda Bogan is from nearby Waterville. They reside in Hamilton with their three children: Zachary, Olivia and Trevor. Summer 2019 marked the Dows’ 25th wedding anniversary.
