Terence Patrick "Terry" Malley is an American football coach who is currently the offensive coordinator for the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League.
Background
Terence Patrick Malley was born in Killeen, Texas. Malley comes from a line of football coaches. His father is George Patrick "Pat" Malley (1931–1985), under whom Terry Malley would later become an assistant football coach at the University of Santa Clara.
Education
Malley later moved to Saratoga, California and attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in nearby San Jose, graduating in 1972. Malley graduated from Santa Clara in 1976 with a degree in business management.
Career
Pat Malley"s father, George L. Malley (1903–1979), served as head coach for the University of San Francisco. He lettered in football and baseball at Bellarmine. Malley began his coaching career at the high school level, starting with Leland High of San Jose in 1976 and 1977, then Moreau Catholic High School in 1978 and 1979.
In 1980, Malley joined Pat Malley"s coaching staff at Santa Clara as wide receivers and quarterbacks coach at Santa Clara.
Malley continued to be head coach until 1992, Santa Clara football"s final season before the university discontinued the football program In eight seasons, Malley had a 47–39–1 record at Santa Clara.
Malley returned to the coaching ranks in 1999, joining Darren Arbet"s staff on the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League. During Malley"s tenure as offensive coordinator, the SaberCats averaged over 50 points per game most seasons.
The team had the American Federation of Labor-Congress"s second-highest scoring average (553) in 2004, then the highest again in 2005 (591) and third best in 2006 (561).
In 2009, Malley had his first college coaching position since his days at Santa Clara, this time as assistant head coach for offense and quarterbacks coach at San Jose State under Dick Tomey. Following Tomey"s retirement, new head coach Mike MacIntyre retained Malley in 2010 as running backs coach and recruiting coordinator. Malley would remain recruiting coordinator for the rest of his tenure at San Jose State.
In 2011, Malley moved to coaching wide receivers.
Malley worked under his third coach at San Jose State when Ron Caragher became head coach in 2013. Under Caragher, Malley coached tight ends in 2013 and wide receivers in 2014.
In 2015, Malley returned to the San Jose SaberCats as offensive coordinator, again under Arbet. With the San Jose SaberCats, Malley was director of football operations in 1994 and general manager from 1995 to 2006.