J. C. Price

{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1973)}}

{{for|founder and first president of Livingstone College|Joseph C. Price}}

{{Infobox college coach

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| current_title = Associate head coach & defensive line coach

| current_team = Virginia Tech

| current_conference = ACC

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| contract = $475,000

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|01|13}}

| birth_place = Dunkirk, Maryland, U.S.

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| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1991–1995

| player_team1 = Virginia Tech

| player_years2 = 1996

| player_team2 = Carolina Panthers

| player_years3 = 1996–1997

| player_team3 = Arizona Cardinals

| player_positions = Defensive tackle

| coach_years1 = 1997–1998

| coach_team1 = Virginia Tech (S&C)

| coach_years2 = 1999–2001

| coach_team2 = Radford HS (VA) (DC/DL)

| coach_years3 = 2002–2003

| coach_team3 = Virginia Tech (GA)

| coach_years4 = 2004–2011

| coach_team4 = James Madison (DL/RGC)

| coach_years5 = 2012

| coach_team5 = Marshall (DL)

| coach_years6 = 2013–2017

| coach_team6 = Marshall (DT)

| coach_years7 = 2018

| coach_team7 = Marshall (co-DC/DT)

| coach_years8 = 2019–2020

| coach_team8 = Marshall (co-DC/DL)

| coach_years9 = 2021

| coach_team9 = Virginia Tech (co-DL/RC)

| coach_years10 = 2021

| coach_team10 = Virginia Tech (Interim HC)

| coach_years11 = 2022–present

| coach_team11 = Virginia Tech (assoc. HC/DL)

| overall_record = 1–2

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Third-team All-American (1995)

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Joseph Carl Price (born January 13, 1973) is an American football coach and former player. He was a third round NFL draft pick and the current co-defensive line coach at Virginia Tech.{{Cite web |title=1996 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1996/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} Price was promoted to interim head coach on November 16, 2021, after the firing of Justin Fuente. His team beat rival Virginia 29–24 on the road to become bowl eligible.{{cite news |last=McFarling |first=Aaron |title=McFarling: Say hello to 'The J.C. Price Game' |url=https://roanoke.com/sports/college/uva/mcfarling-say-hello-to-the-j-c-price-game/article_cbfa4bc2-4fed-11ec-a892-47f967ab1617.html|newspaper=The Roanoke Times |date=November 27, 2021 |accessdate=November 29, 2021}}

New permanent head coach Brent Pry retained Price as the associate head coach and defensive line coach.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-12-01|date=2021-11-30|first=Eric|last=Johnson|publisher=WSLS|title=Virginia Tech hires Penn State DC Brent Pry to be Hokies next head football coach|url=https://www.wsls.com/sports/2021/11/30/virginia-tech-to-reportedly-hire-penn-state-dc-brent-pry/}}

Before joining Virginia Tech in 2021, he was an assistant for close to twenty years at Marshall and James Madison.