Coach Dre Ervin recently returned home to coach special teams, defensive backs and to serve as the recruiting coordinator at his alma matter, Fairhope High School. Before coming home, Coach Ervin was on University of North Alabama’s defensive staff as the safeties coach.

Before coaching at UNA, Ervin worked at Oklahoma Baptist University as the defensive backs and returners coach. Beforebeginning his coaching career, Ervin was an all-conference performer at Arkansas Tech and Colorado Mesa from 2017-21.

As a player, Ervin was the 2016 Special Teams MVP at Arkansas Tech and earned back-to-back all-conference honors in 2019 while at Arkansas Tech and 2020 at Colorado Mesa. He owns claim to all-conference honors from both the Great American Conference (GAC) and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).

Ervin started his coaching career as a varsity defensive backs coach and returners coach at Grand Junction High School in Colorado from 2021-24. He also served as a special education teacher while at GJHS. He then spent one season at the college level working with defensive backs and returners at Oklahoma Baptist in 2024.

He graduated from Arkansas Tech with a degree in Interdisciplinary Professional Studies in 2019 and earned a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from Colorado Mesa in 2022.