Matt Mitchell (American football)
Matt Mitchell is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, a position he has held since 2010 . Playing career. Mitchell was a two-time, First-Team All-Midwest Conference selection as a defensive lineman during his playing career at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, where he earned a B.S.S. in biology and secondary education in 1997. Coaching career. From 2000 to 2003, Mitchell was an assistant coach serving as Linebackers coach at Wartburg College. From 2004 to 2009, he served as  an assistant at Grand Valley State coach under Chuck Martin. Following the 2009 season, Mitchell was named head coach at Grand Valley State, by his father-in-law, athletic director Tim Selgo, when Martin left to join former Grand Valley State head coach Brian Kelly at Notre Dame. Personal life. Mitchell and his wife, Jen, are the parents of sons Trayton and RJ.