Jordan Fair enters his second season at Arkansas State in 2026-27 and his first as associate head coach after joining Ryan Pannone's inaugural staff in 2025-26. Following a successful first season in Jonesboro, Fair was promoted to associate head coach in July 2026 after helping guide the Red Wolves through one of the nation's most remarkable roster rebuilds.
In his first season with the program, Fair played an instrumental role in helping Arkansas State win 20 regular-season games and finish 11-7 in Sun Belt Conference play despite returning no players from the previous season. The Red Wolves tied for second in the conference standings, posted a program-record nine road victories and became one of only two Division I programs nationally to win 20 games in 2025-26 without a returning player.
Widely regarded as one of the nation's top recruiters and player-development coaches, Fair helped Arkansas State secure the No. 1 transfer recruiting class in the Sun Belt Conference in each of his first two recruiting cycles with the program. Following the 2025-26 season, he was selected as one of 68 attendees for the prestigious Silver Waves Media NXT Up Rising Stars Power Lunch held during the 2026 Men's Final Four.
Fair spent eight seasons as head coach at Oldsmar Christian, posting a career record of 185-60 (.755) and being named the Sunshine Independent Athletic Association (SIAA) Coach of the Year two times in 2015 and 2021. Oldsmar was nationally-ranked in the top 25 in six of his eight seasons at the helm, and ranked as high as ninth nationally, The Eagles reached the state championship game in 2016, and under his guidance, Oldsmar Christian became the only program in the Tampa Bay Area to be nationally-ranked in four consecutive years.
During his stint at the helm of the Eagles, 35 Fair-coached players signed college scholarships, including 26 with Division-I schools – eight in 2016 alone. Five of these players were ranked in the Top 50 nationally. He coached with the AAU Program Team Breakdown where in 2016 they were ranked as a top 5 AAU program in the country. He also coached in the Under Armour Elite 24 game and had a player selected to the 2015 McDonald's All-America Game.
Fair has exclusively worked with NBA players such as Donovan Mitchell, Anfernee Simons, John Henson, Tony Bradley, Adrian Griffin, Aaron Jackson, Harrison Barnes, Deng Adel, Okaro White and Reggie Evans.
Prior to becoming head coach at Oldsmar Christian, Fair was an assistant at Oldsmar for one year (2010-11) and spent one season as the associate head coach at Faith Baptist High School in Brandon, Fla.
After playing at Oldsmar Christian from 2005-08, he moved on to play collegiately at North Florida (2008-09) and Lee University in Tennessee (2009-10).
