Kevin Wilson - Football Coach - Indiana University Athletics

Indiana State

Sep 12 (Fri)

6:30 p.m.

Kevin Wilson

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
football@indiana.edu
Phone:
855-9618

• One of the most innovative and prolific offensive minds in the country, Kevin Wilson was named Indiana University’s 28th head football coach on Dec. 7, 2010.

• Led the Hoosiers to the 2015 New Era Pinstripe Bowl, the program’s first postseason appearance since 2007.

• Wilson has mentored three first team All-Americans - offensive linemen Dan Feeney and Jason Spriggs in 2015, and Tevin Coleman in 2014. The three All-Americans are the most for Indiana over a two-year period since 1968-69 (3).

• Spriggs and Feeney became the first offensive line tandem to secure first team honors in the same season in program history and just the sixth pair of teammates to ever accomplish the feat.

• Twenty-five IU standouts have either moved on to the NFL or received camp invites, including three draft picks - offensive tackle Jason Spriggs (Green Bay, 48th overall), running back Jordan Howard (Chicago, 5th round) and quarterback Nate Sudfeld (Washington, 6th round), and seven overall in 2016.

• Wide receiver Cody Latimer was selected 56th overall by Denver in 2014 and running back Tevin Coleman was selected 73rd overall by Atlanta in 2015.

• Indiana has had at least one pick in the first three rounds three straight years for the first time since 1993-95, and six selections overall, the program’s most since 1991-93.

• Thirty-eight Hoosiers have earned All-Big Ten honors, highlighted by a school record 12 last season.

• Griffin Oakes was named the 2015 Bakken-Andersen Kicker of the Year and first team All-Big Ten.

• Feeney and running back Jordan Howard collected first team All-Big Ten honors. Spriggs was a second team selection and senior quarterback Nate Sudfeld was a third team honoree.

• Wilson’s offenses have set 54 school records, including single-season points, total yardage, passing yardage and rushing yardage.

• The 2015 Hoosiers became the fourth team in FBS history with a 3,500-yard passer, two 1,000-yard rushers and one 1,000-yard receiver in the same year, joining 2005 Southern California, 2008 Oklahoma (Wilson was the Sooners offensive coordinator) and 2015 Southern Miss.

• Indiana also led the Big Ten in total offense, scoring offense and passing offense, the first team since Ohio State in 1995 to do so.

• Jordan Howard (1,213) and Devine Redding (1,012) each eclipsed 1,000 yards, the first time two runners have done so in program history. IU was one of two Power Five programs (Baylor) to accomplish that in 2015.

• The Hoosiers won the Old Oaken Bucket for the third straight year for the first time since 1944-47.

• Indiana won its final two regular season games for the first time since 2001, its final two road games for the first time since 1982 and its final two games with both on the road for the first time since 1946.

• IU had not won back-to-back Big Ten games since 2012, two B1G road games in the same year since 2001, back-to-back league road games since 1993 and three road games in a single season since 1994.

• In 2014, Coleman became the 18th player in FBS history to rush for 2,000 yards (2,036), which set a school record, is 16th on the FBS all-time list and sixth in Big Ten history. He was Indiana’s third unanimous and consensus All-American, finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy voting and was a finalist for the Doak Walker Award.

• Wilson has assembled the highest-rated recruiting classes in school history over the past four seasons. The hard work on the recruiting trail has paid off, as eight freshmen earned All-Big Ten freshman recognition in 2013, five in 2014 and three in 2015. Nine freshmen have garnered All-America honors and 24 have netted freshman All-Big Ten recognition in Wilson’s five seasons.

• Adam Replogle (2012) and safety Mark Murphy (2013, 2014) became the eighth and ninth IU players to collect Academic All-America honors. Murphy is just the third Hoosier to earn the honor twice.

• Murphy was one of 17 National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athletes and the runner-up for the 2014 William V. Campbell Trophy, awarded to the top scholar-athlete in college football.

• A five-year program record 111 Hoosiers have earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.

• With its 31-27 win at No. 18 Missouri in 2014, Indiana earned its first win over a top 20 team since 2006 and its first on the road since 1987. It marked the first time a Big Ten team defeated a ranked SEC team on the road.

• Spent the 2002-10 seasons at the University of Oklahoma. He served as co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach (2002-05) and offensive coordinator and tight ends and fullbacks coach (2006-10).

• Led some of the most productive offenses in FBS history, coached in 10 consecutive bowl games and made seven BCS bowl appearances, including three national championship games (2003, ‘04, ‘08).

• OU played in seven Big 12 Title games, going 6-1, and Wilson’s offenses were vital to accumulating an overall record of 99-24 (.805) during his time in Norman, including seven 10-win seasons.

• From 2002-10, 26 offensive players were drafted in to the NFL, including seven first-round selections, with three going among the first 10 picks and two in the top five.

• Served as position coach for three All-Americans, an Outland Trophy winner (Jammal Brown), a Mackey Award finalist (Jermaine Gresham) and a two-time Rimington Trophy finalist (Vince Carter).

• As position coach, Wilson tutored three first-round draft picks (Jermaine Gresham, TE - 2010, Davin Joseph, OL - 2006 and Jammal Brown, OL - 2005), a second-round pick (Chris Chester, OL - 2005), a fifth-round pick (Brody Eldridge, TE - 2010), two sixth-round picks (James Hanna, TE - 2012; Wes Sims, OL - 2004) and six free agents at Oklahoma.

• Twice a finalist for the Frank Broyles Award - awarded to the nation’s top assistant coach, Wilson won the award in 2008.

• In 2010, the Sooners earned a 48-20 victory over Connecticut in the Fiesta Bowl and also claimed the seventh Big 12 championship in school history. Running back DeMarco Murray set the school record for career touchdowns and also broke the OU mark for career all-purpose yards.

• Guided wide receiver Ryan Broyles to eight Sooner receiving records, including career marks for receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns. Broyles led the nation with 131 receptions in 2010.

• His 2008 offense shattered NCAA records by scoring 60-or-more points in five straight games and 716 total points for the entire season to average more than 51 points per contest.

• The 2008 team played in the BCS National Championship Game behind Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford. Bradford passed for 4,720 yards and 50 touchdowns, Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray both rushed for over 1,000 yards, Juaquin Iglesias caught 74 balls for 1,150 yards and Jermaine Gresham added 66 catches for 950 yards.

• Bradford ranked No. 1 nationally in passing efficiency as a freshman in 2007 and again in 2008, as he threw for more touchdowns (86) in two seasons than anyone in NCAA history. In the 2010 NFL Draft, Bradford was selected with the No. 1 overall pick by the St. Louis Rams. He captured the 2010 Associated Press NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year honor.

• Instrumental in the development of Adrian Peterson, who rushed for 1,925 yards his freshman campaign - an OU single-season record and the highest total for a freshman in NCAA history.

• Peterson went on to place second in the Heisman voting, which at the time was the highest finish ever by a freshman. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings as the seventh pick in the 2007 NFL Draft, where he was named the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year. Peterson won the 2012 NFL Most Valuable Player Award after he rushed for 2,097 yards, just nine shy of the NFL’s single-season mark.

• Prior to his stint in Norman, Wilson was promoted to assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at Northwestern University in 2001 after serving as offensive coordinator in 1999 and 2000.

• Helped NU to the 2000 Alamo Bowl and quarterback Zac Kustok, a Unitas Award finalist, led the Big Ten in total offense. Running back Damian Anderson earned All-America honors and ended his career as the sixth-best rusher in Big Ten history.

• Followed Randy Walker to Northwestern from Miami University after spending nine years in Oxford, coaching alongside former IU head coach Terry Hoeppner.

• His offenses produced outstanding running backs, including Travis Prentice and Hoosiers running backs coach Deland McCullough. Wilson also coached all-conference tight end and Indiana assistant James Patton. Prentice became the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer and the fifth-most prolific rusher in NCAA history, breaking McCullough’s school records in the process.

• Wilson was the head coach and athletic director at Foard High School in North Carolina during the 1989 campaign and the offensive coordinator at North Carolina A&T in 1988.

• Spent a year as the offensive line coach at Winston Salem State in 1987. Wilson began his career in coaching as a student and graduate assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina.

• A walk-on offensive lineman at North Carolina, Wilson earned a scholarship while playing in four bowl games - the 1980 Bluebonnet, the 1981 Gator, the 1982 Sun and the 1983 Peach Bowls.

• Earned his bachelor’s degree in education (1984) and his master’s degree in physical education (1987).

• Wilson was a three-sport star at Maiden High School in Maiden, N.C.

• Kevin and his wife, Angela, have five children, including three daughters, Elaina (20), Makenzie (18) and Marlee (15), and two sons, Trey (16) and Toby (13).