Mike Perish - Football Coach - Pitt Panthers #H2P

Mike Perish

Title:
Offensive Graduate Assistant
Email:
mperish@athletics.pitt.edu
Phone:
412-648-8700

Mike Perish, one of the most productive quarterbacks in Indiana State history, enters his second season as an offensive graduate assistant at Pitt.

Perish was ISU’s Most Valuable Player as a senior in 2014, when he led the Sycamores to the NCAA playoffs for the first time in three decades. During that historic campaign, Perish rewrote the school record book, setting new ISU single-season standards for total offense (3,309), passing yards (3,515), completion percentage (61.4), touchdown passes (21), passing attempts (528) and completions (324).

Perish threw for a school-record 407 yards in a first-round win over Eastern Kentucky, Indiana State’s first playoff win since 1983.

He finished as Indiana State’s all-time leader in career passing yards (6,716) and placed second in career total offense (6,373).

Perish returned to his alma mater in 2016 as wide receivers coach. His pupils included All-Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) performer Robert Tonyan, who set school records for touchdown catches in a season (10) and career (20). Tonyan was with the Green Bay Packers in 2017. Perish’s additional coaching experience includes a stint as the quarterbacks coach and head junior varsity coach at St. Francis High School in Illinois during the 2015 season.

A native of Frankfort, Ill., Perish earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Indiana State in 2015. Married, his wife's name is Lauren.