Greg Cross is his sixth year of his second tenure on the Blue Dragon football sideline. Cross serves as the Blue Dragon Running Backs coach and is the Dragons’ Run-Game Coordinator.

Cross was also on Rion Rhoades’ staff from 2012 to 2014. Between his tenures at Hutchinson, Cross coached at the high school level in Georgia.

Cross coached his second Jayhawk Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2022 when running back Dylan Kedzior earned that honor after rushing for 1,114 yards and 7.1 yards per carry with 11 touchdowns. The Blue Dragons were seventh in the nation in rushing last season at 146.8 yards per game and was second in the NJCAA in scoring offense at 37.3 points per game.

Cross guided the 2021 Jayhawk Conference Offensive Player of the Year in running back Anwar Lewis in Hutchinson’s 9-2 season that finished with Jayhawk Conference Playoff and Salt City Bowl titles. Lewis rushed for a league-best 1,071 yards for the season, averaging 5.6 yards per carry, with 11 touchdowns. The 2021 Blue Dragons were second in the KJCCC and 13th in the NJCAA in rushing at 182.9 yards per game.

Cross’ running backs played a huge role in the 2020/21 Blue Dragons running the table in an 8-0 campaign that culminated in the program’s first NJCAA National Championship.

The Blue Dragons led the Jayhawk Conference and were No. 2 in the NJCAA in rushing at 273.5 yards per game. Tye Edwards was first-team all-KJCCC and first-team NJCAA All-American in 2020-21. With 139 yards rushing and two touchdowns, Edwards was also the NJCAA Championship Game Most Valuable Player. Lewis also had two championship game touchdowns and was a second-team all-KJCCC performer.

In his first stint at HutchCC, Cross coached the quarterbacks, running backs and tight ends.

Cross was Hutch’s Quarterbacks coach in his first two seasons at Hutchinson. Both seasons presented challenges, but Cross met them head on. He inherited a record-setting quarterback in Luke Barnes in 2013. Barnes, who wound up becoming HutchCC’s career leader in passing yards and touchdown passes, was lost for the season early in Week 8 against Fort Scott.

Enter freshman back-up Frankie Seurer. Cross’ guidance helped Seurer complete Hutchinson’s largest comeback in school history – HutchCC trailed by 29 points against Fort Scott and won 63-39. Seurer led the Blue Dragons to a Region VI runner-up finish and a Salt City Bowl victory where he was Offensive MVP.

In 2014, a Jayhawk Conference championship season at Hutchinson, Cross helped operate a two-quarterback system with Dalton Demos and Kylen Binn. The Blue Dragon offense was solid, but when Demos was lost for the season with an injury, Binn stepped in as a full-time starter and performed well in helping Hutchinson capture its first conference title since 1995.

Cross and former Blue Dragon coach Rion Rhoades were no strangers to each other.

Cross was Rhoades’ quarterback at Fort Scott Community College in 2006. Ranked the No. 2 junior college quarterback, led Fort Scott to a tremendous turnaround season, going 7-5. Cross helped Fort Scott to 16 victories and two bowl games in his two seasons. Cross was the 2007 Jayhawk Conference Offensive Player of the Year and was an NJCAA All-American honorable mention selection.

Cross transferred to the University of Pittsburgh. After playing only two games in 2008 and redshirting in 2009, Cross played on Pitt’s 2010 Big East championship team.

Cross played one year professionally in Europe.

Cross is a native of Brunswick, Georgia.