Mike Empey

Mike Empey is a former college football player and coach. He is also a business professional.

Empey played for Brigham Young University in 1987 and 1991–1993. He protected Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer in 1987 and 1991. He lettered four years and helped BYU to bowl games all four years. He earned All-WAC academic honors as a junior and senior and All-WAC honors in 1993.

In 1993, he signed as a free agent with the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL.

Empey earned his bachelor’s degree from BYU in physical education/exercise science and was a graduate assistant coach at BYU from 1994 to 1996. He became tight ends coach at UNLV in 1997 and moved onto Snow College as head coach in 1999. At BYU, he was offensive tackles and tight ends coach in 2000, tight ends coach from 2001 to 2004, and then returned to BYU in 2016 and 2017 as offensive line coach.

He also served as offensive coordinator from 2012 to 2014 at American Fork High School.

Empey also holds a master’s degree from BYU in physical education/exercise science. He has had a successful career in sales. He worked for a large commercial industrial door company that manufactures giant portal doors in hotels, the ones that divide ballrooms. He also worked as operations manager for Stryker Mountain West, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of medical equipment.[1] He has been an executive director in post-acute and rehabilitation care.

Empey served as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Jose, California. He married Stephanie Wright and they are the parents of four children.