Returning for his 11th season as a member of Jim Margraff's staff is Joe Carroll, who will work with the Blue Jay tight ends. Carroll is in his second stint as a member of the Hopkins coaching staff.

Carroll worked under Margraff's guidance from 1995 through 2002 and spent three years coaching tight ends (1995-96, 2002) and five years coaching the running backs (1997-2001).

Under Carroll, the Blue Jays produced two of the program's all-time leading rushers (Adam Gentile and Don Zajick) and he later coached Adam Cook for one year. Cook became Hopkins' all-time leading rusher in 2004, while T.J. Lyons finished his career in 2005 under Carroll's guidance and earned First Team All-Centennial honors after rushing for 950 yards. He finished his career ranked fourth on JHU's career rushing list.

In 1997, under Carroll's guidance, the Blue Jays rushed for 192 yards per game, the highest total for a JHU team since 1959. In 1998 he helped Gentile become the first JHU player to gain over 1,000 yards in a season. Gentile became Hopkins' all-time leading rusher in 1999 (2,700 yards), when the Blue Jays had three different players rush for over 100 yards in a game (first time since 1995 that happened at JHU). Another one of those players (Scott Martorana) finished his career in 2001 with a school-record 25 career rushing touchdowns.

Carroll played football, basketball and baseball at Georgetown University, taught and coached at Calvert Hall and Gilman high schools in Baltimore and later was a major college football game official. He also served as an assistant coach with the Hopkins baseball team for several years. A former Assistant Attorney General for the state of Maryland, Carroll worked as a lobbyist in Annapolis for Maryland's new car and truck dealers for 25 years.