University at Albany Great Danes

Jordan Orlovsky originally joined the University at Albany football program in April of 2018 as an offensive assistant and returned in 2020 as the team's director of football operations before rising through the ranks to now serve as the team's running backs coach and chief of staff. 

In his second year as the team’s running backs coach in 2023, Orlovsky played a major role in the team’s run game that helped propel UAlbany to the program’s first-ever NCAA FCS Semifinal appearance and first-ever CAA title. Under Orlovsky, running back Griffin Woodell was named the 2023 CAA Rookie of the year after finishing with 892 rushing yards and eight touchdowns with an additional 255 yards and four touchdowns coming through the air. Woodell finished fifth in the Jerry Rice Award voting, given to the top rookie in the entire FCS. In addition, Woodell was named an FCS Football Central Freshman All-American, a Stats Perform FCS Freshman All-American, and the Phil Steele CAA Freshman of the year. In total, Orlovsky’s run game averaged 121.9 yards per game in one of the conference’s most potent offenses.

In his first season in charge of the running backs, Orlovskly helped produce career numbers for transfer Todd Sibley. Sibley rushed for 987 yards in just 10 games as UAlbany’s work horse in the backfield, averaging 98.7 yards per game on the ground. His yardage per game was good enough to finish fifth in the CAA and earn CAA Third Team All-Conference honors.

From 2020 to 2021, Orlovsky served as the team's director of football operations and outside linebackers coach. He was responsible for developing, monitoring, and managing all contracts and logistics associated with all football activities and supervising, and evaluating performance of staff and ensuring completion of all project activities.

Orlovsky spent one year as defensive line coach and JV head coach at Muhlenberg College in 2019. Before his first stint at UAlbany in 2018 where he worked with the Great Danes' offensive line, Orlovsky worked at Fordham, Old Dominion, UConn, and Miami. He graduated from the University of Miami in 2009 with a degree in Business Management and a minor in Sports Administration and earned his graduate degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2014.