Rickey Bustle

{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1953)}}

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| current_title = Head coach

| current_team = Athens Christian (GA)

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|8|23}}

| birth_place = Summerville, South Carolina, U.S.

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| player_years1 = 1974–1976

| player_team1 = Clemson

| player_positions = Wide receiver

| coach_years1 = 1979

| coach_team1 = Gardner–Webb (DC)

| coach_years2 = 1980–1982

| coach_team2 = East Carolina (WR)

| coach_years3 = 1983

| coach_team3 = Arizona Wranglers (RB)

| coach_years4 = 1984–1985

| coach_team4 = Northeast Louisiana (RB)

| coach_years5 = 1986

| coach_team5 = Northeast Louisiana (OC)

| coach_years6 = 1987–1992

| coach_team6 = Virginia Tech (QB/WR)

| coach_years7 = 1993

| coach_team7 = Virginia Tech (OC/QB)

| coach_years8 = 1994

| coach_team8 = South Carolina (OC/QB)

| coach_years9 = 1995–2001

| coach_team9 = Virginia Tech (OC/QB)

| coach_years10 = 2002–2010

| coach_team10 = Louisiana–Lafayette

| coach_years11 = 2011

| coach_team11 = Tulane (QB)

| coach_years12 = 2012

| coach_team12 = Southern Miss (RB)

| coach_years13 = 2013–2014

| coach_team13 = North Carolina A&T (OC/QB)

| coach_years14 = 2015–2017

| coach_team14 = Prince Avenue Christian (GA) (OC)

| coach_years15 = 2018

| coach_team15 = East Jackson HS (GA) (QB)

| coach_years16 = 2019–2020

| coach_team16 = Clarke Central HS (GA) (QB)

| coach_years17 = 2021–present

| coach_team17 = Athens Christian (GA)

| overall_record = 43–65 (college)

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| championships = 1 Sun Belt (2005)

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Rickey Norman Bustle{{cite book |title=Clemson Commencement Program, May 1977 |date=May 6, 1977 |publisher=Clemson University |page=10 |url=https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1194&context=comm_programs}} (born August 23, 1953) is an American football coach and former player. He is the Head football coach at Athens Christian School in Athens, Georgia, a position he had held since 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2021/03/03/rickey-bustle-hired-athens-christian-football-coach/6878516002/|title = Athens Christian picks former college coach Rickey Bustle to lead football program}} Bustle served as the head football coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 2002 to 2010, compiling a record of 41–65. As a player Bustle was a three-year football letterman at Clemson University. Before going to Louisiana, Bustle was an assistant coach (offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach) at Virginia Tech. Bustle's salary at Louisiana in 2009 was $226,000.{{cite news |title=2009 NCAA football coaches contracts |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2009-coaches-contracts-database.htm |newspaper=USA Today |date=November 10, 2009 |accessdate=August 7, 2011}}