Richard Hastings Tomey (June 20, 1938 – May 10, 2019) was an American college football coach and player.

Tomey served as a head coach of the victorious West team in the Casino Del Sol College All-Star Game on January 11, 2013, at Kino Stadium in Arizona.

In 1976, new UCLA head coach Terry Donahue promoted Tomey to defensive coordinator.

From 1977 to 1986, Tomey led his teams at Hawaii to their first in season top-20 Associated Press ranking in 1981, and their first AP first-team All-American player, Al Noga.

During his tenure, he coached five future NFL first-round draft choices, 20 All-Americans, and 43 Pac-10 first team players.

Tomey returned to Hawaii to be special teams coach under Greg McMackin for the 2011 season.

[11] As of September 9, 2010, the WAC Sports Network—the Western Athletic Conference and its multimedia rights partner, Learfield Sports—appointed seven members to the WSN broadcast team, one of which was Tomey as a color commentator for the network.

In February 2015, Tomey joined the University of South Florida as associate athletic director for sports administration.

[14][2] In 2017, Tomey's memoir, Rise of the Rainbow Warriors: Ten Unforgettable Years of University of Hawaii Football,[15] co-written with Lance Tominaga, was released by Watermark Publishing of Honolulu.

Her latest book title, Eat, Drink and Be From Mississippi, is a January 2009 Little, Brown and Company publication that received strong, favorable reviews from Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post.