Kevin Wilson (American football)
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Indiana |
| Conference | Big Ten |
| Record | 20–41 |
| Annual salary | $2,550,000 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | October 23, 1961 Maiden, North Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1980–1983 | North Carolina |
| Position(s) | Center, guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1984–1986 | North Carolina (GA) |
| 1987 | Winston-Salem State (OL) |
| 1988 | North Carolina A&T (OC/OL) |
| 1989 | Fred T. Foard HS (NC) |
| 1990–1991 | Miami (OH) (OL) |
| 1992–1997 | Miami (OH) (OC/OL) |
| 1998 | Miami (OH) (OC/QB) |
| 1999–2000 | Northwestern (OC/QB) |
| 2001 | Northwestern (AHC/OC/QB) |
| 2002–2005 | Oklahoma (Co-OC/OL) |
| 2006–2010 | Oklahoma (OC/TE/FB) |
| 2011–present | Indiana |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1989 | Fred T. Foard HS (NC) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 20–41 (college) 0–10 (high school) |
| Bowls | 0–1 |
| Statistics | |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| Broyles Award (2008) | |
Kevin R. Wilson (born October 23, 1961) is an American football college coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Indiana.
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Playing career
Wilson played offensive line and linebacker at Maiden High School. He was all-conference for two seasons and for his senior season was named to the Charlotte Observer All-Piedmont team.[1]
He went on to play center and guard for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels as a walk-on. After two seasons as a walk-on he earned a scholarship.[2] He earned a degree in Mathematics in 1984, and then became a graduate assistant for three years while working on a master's degree in Physical Education.[2]
While at North Carolina Randy Walker was a Tar Heels assistant. When Walker left North Carolina to become head coach at Miami University in 1990, Wilson became his assistant there.[3]
Early coaching career
Assistant at North Carolina
After playing for the North Carolina Tar Heels, he spent three seasons (1984–1986) as a graduate assistant coach while he worked on this master's degree.[2] In 1987, he became the offensive line coach at Winston-Salem State University.[4] Wilson was the offensive coordinator for the 1988 season for the North Carolina A&T Aggies.[2]
High school
In 1989 he became the head coach and athletic director of Fred T. Foard High School, near his hometown and alma mater Maiden, North Carolina,[2] where the Tigers went 0–10.[5]
Return to assistant coaching
Following one year coaching on the high school level, Wilson returned to college coaching for the Miami University RedHawks in 1990, under head coach Randy Walker, and coached there as offensive line coach, quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator until 1998.[3] When Walker moved to Northwestern University Wilson went with him, serving as the offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach, and assistant head coach, from 1999 to 2001.[6]
After spending 19 seasons under the tutelage of his mentor Walker (four as a player at North Carolina, three as a graduate assistant there, nine as a coach at Miami, and three as a coach at Northwestern),[7][8] Wilson left his long-time mentor to become the running game coordinator and the offensive line coach at Oklahoma in 2002.[9][10] In December 2005, Wilson was named the offensive coordinator for the Sooners prior to the 2006 season, replacing Chuck Long who left to become the head coach at San Diego State. Oklahoma named James Patton to replace Wilson as offensive line coach, Patton served under Wilson at both Northwestern and Miami, and Wilson recommended Patton to Sooners' head coach Bob Stoops.[11][12] In 2008, Wilson won the Broyles Award, which is given to the top assistant in college football annually.[13] He was also named the "FootballScoop Offensive Coordinator of the Year".[14]
Indiana
Indiana athletic director Fred Glass announced the dismissal of Bill Lynch and the rest of the coaching staff on November 28, 2010, following a third straight season with only one conference victory. Glass announced the hiring of Wilson on December 7, giving Wilson his first collegiate head coaching position. Just thirteen days later Wilson hired New Mexico defensive coordinator Doug Mallory and Nebraska linebackers coach Mike Ekeler (also LBs) as co-defensive coordinators. Mallory, the son of former Indiana head coach Bill Mallory, was Indiana's defensive backs coach from 1994–1996. Wilson also hired Rod Smith from Michigan and Kevin Johns from Northwestern to be co-offensive coordinators. Wilson took over a Hoosiers team that has finished 10th or 11th in the Big Ten in each of the previous three seasons and has not been to a bowl since losing to Oklahoma State in the 2007 Insight Bowl.
Under Wilson's first year, the Hoosiers had a 1–11 record. In his second year, Indiana improved to 4-8 on the year with Wilson's team exhibited an explosive offense, going from 80th nationally in pass offense to 19th and leading the Big Ten with 311.2 yards per game, in spite of losing the starting quarterback Tre Roberson in the season's second game.[15][16]
In 2015, Indiana finished the regular season with a 6-6 record and showed a much more competitive level of play in the Big Ten. Indiana received an invitation to play in the Pinstripe Bowl, their first bowl game since 2007. After the season Wilson was signed to a 6-year, $15.3 million contract extension that runs through 2021.[17]
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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| Indiana Hoosiers (Big Ten Conference) (2011–present) | |||||||||
| 2011 | Indiana | 1–11 | 0–8 | 6th (Leaders) | |||||
| 2012 | Indiana | 4–8 | 2–6 | 5th (Leaders) | |||||
| 2013 | Indiana | 5–7 | 3–5 | 4th (Leaders) | |||||
| 2014 | Indiana | 4–8 | 1–7 | 7th (East) | |||||
| 2015 | Indiana | 6–7 | 2–6 | 5th (East) | L Pinstripe | ||||
| Indiana: | 20–41 | 8–32 | |||||||
| Total: | 20–41 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
| #Rankings from final Coaches Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll. |
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External links
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Indiana Hoosiers football coaches
- Miami RedHawks football coaches
- North Carolina A&T Aggies football coaches
- North Carolina Tar Heels football players
- Northwestern Wildcats football coaches
- Oklahoma Sooners football coaches
- Winston-Salem State Rams football coaches
- High school football coaches in the United States
- Players of American football from North Carolina
