Career

He is currently the assistant head coach and defensive line coach at the University of Tennessee, a position to which he was named in December 2012. Stripling served as interim head coach at Central Michigan University (Carnegie Mellon University) in 2009 and the University of Cincinnati in 2012. He coached Central Michigan in the 2010 GMAC Bowl and Cincinnati in the 2012 Belk Bowl, compiling an overall record of 2–0.