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Patrick Rotchford

  • Title
    Run Game Coordinator/Offensive Line
    Recruits: Western PA, TX (DFW/Austin), New York Sec 5/6, West Virginia, and Oklahoma
  • Email
    protchford@colgate.edu
  • Alma Mater
    St. John Fisher '07
Coaching Experience
  • Assistant Coach, Offensive Line & Run Game Coordinator, Colgate University (2025-pr.)
  • Assistant Head Coach, SUNY Cortland (2024-2025)
  • Offensive Coordinator & Offensive Line Coach, SUNY Cortland (2020-2024)
  • Assistant Head Coach, SUNY Morrisville (2018-2019)
  • Offensive Line Coach, Running Game Coordinator, Recruiting Coordinator, SUNY Morrisville (2014-2019)
  • Offensive Line Coach & Offensive Coordinator, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (2013-2014)
  • Quarterbacks Coach, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (2012-2013)
  • Running Backs Coach, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (2011-2012)
  • Assistant Offensive Line Coach & JV Head Coach, St. Ambrose University (2009-2011)
  • Offensive Line Coach, MacMurray College (2008-2009)

Education
  • B.S., St. John Fisher College (2007)

Before Colgate 
Patrick Rotchford was hired as the offensive line coach and run game coordinator in February of 2025. 

Rotchford spent the past five seasons with Head Coach Curt Fitzpatrick at SUNY Cortland where he served as the offensive Coordinator, offensive line coach, recruiting coordinator and associate head coach. 

He helped lead the Red Dragons to four-consecutive Empire 8 titles and a Division III National Championship in 2023. His offenses were never been ranked lower than eighth in the nation in scoring his last three years, and he has helped mentor at least one all-american in each of his seasons at Cortland in addition to 14 all-conference student-athletes.

The 2023 FootballScoop national Division III Coordinator of the Year helped set program records with 46.2 points and 509.2 total offensive yards per game during the national title run, and scored 35 or more points in all but two games that season. 

Before Cortland, Rotchford spent six years with SUNY Morrisville in a variety of roles, including offensive line coach, run game coordinator, and associate head coach in 2018. He helped Morrisville to an NJAC Co-Championship his first season in 2014 while mentoring four all-conference offensive linemen. 

From 2015-2019, Rotchford’s offenses never ranked lower than third in the Empire 8 for total rushing yards, and was a top-two total offense in three out of those five seasons. In total, he produced 13 all-league offensive linemen in his time at Morrisville. 

Rotchford was an assistant coach for three seasons at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges in California from 2011-2014, overseeing the offensive line, running backs and quarterbacks at various times and acting as the offensive coordinator in 2012 and 2013. He was a graduate assistant at St. Ambrose University for two seasons working with the offensive line, and spent one year overseeing the same position group with MacMurray College in 2008. 

Playing Career
A Baldwinsville, N.Y. native, Rotchford played four years with the St. John Fisher College Cardinals on the offensive line, helping the program to a combined 38-10 record in four years with four postseason appearances and a pair of Empire 8 championships.