Dan Hawkins

Dan Hawkins
Hawkins in April 2007
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Head coach
Team UC Davis
Conference Big Sky
Record 9–7
Biographical details
Born (1960-11-10) November 10, 1960
Fall River Mills, California
Playing career
1978–1980 Siskiyous CC
1981–1982 UC Davis
Position(s) Fullback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1983–1985 UC Davis (assistant)
1986–1987 Christian Bros. HS (CA)
1988–1991 Siskiyous CC (OC)
1992 Sonoma State (DC)
1993–1997 Willamette
1998–2000 Boise State (assistant)
2001–2005 Boise State
2006–2010 Colorado
2013 Montreal Alouettes
2015 United States national team
2016 Vikings Vienna (OC)
2017–present UC Davis
Head coaching record
Overall 121–68–1 (college)
Bowls 2–3
Tournaments 4–2 (NAIA playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3 NWC (1995–1997)
4 WAC (2002–2005)
Awards
2x WAC Coach of the Year
Dan Hawkins
Medal record
Men’s American football
Representing  United States
World Championship
2015 USATeam Competition

Danny Clarence Hawkins (born November 10, 1960) is an American former football player, coach, and sportscaster. He served as the head football coach at Willamette University (1993–1997), Boise State University (2001–2005), and the University of Colorado (2006–2010), compiling a career college football record of 112–61–1. Hawkins was the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for five games in 2013 before he was fired mid-season. Between 2011 and 2016, he served as a college football analyst for ESPN. He has served as head coach for UC Davis since the beginning of the 2017 season.

Education and early positions

Danny Clarence Hawkins grew up in Bieber, California, in the northeast corner of the state. [1] He attended junior college at College of the Siskiyous in Weed and transferred to UC Davis, where he played fullback,[2] and earned a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1984. He later completed a master's degree in educational administration from St. Mary's College in 1993.

He began his coaching career at UC Davis under coach Jim Sochor the fall before he graduated, spending three years there (1983–1985). He then served as head coach at Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento for the 1986 and 1987 seasons. He spent four seasons (1988–1991) as the offensive coordinator at the College of the Siskiyous, then served as defensive coordinator at Sonoma State in 1992.

Head coaching career

Willamette

In 1993, Hawkins became the head coach at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and led the Bearcats to a 40–11–1 overall record (.779) in five seasons. In his final season Willamette was 13–1, falling 14–7 in the 1997 NAIA Division II National Championship Game.

Boise State

Hawkins moved up to NCAA Division I-A football at Boise State in 1998 as an assistant under first-year head coach Dirk Koetter. After three seasons, Koetter accepted the head coaching job at Arizona State, and Hawkins was promoted from assistant head coach to head coach on December 2, 2000. In 2004, Hawkins was honored with his second Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Coach of the Year title in three years. Through the 2005 season, he compiled a 53–11 record (.828) in five seasons as Boise State's head coach, including a 37–3 record (.925) in WAC competition with four straight WAC titles. Only Walter Camp, George Washington Woodruff and Bob Pruett had more total wins in their first five years of head coaching. He holds a 31–game WAC winning streak, the longest in conference history.[3] One of his first hires at Boise State was Chris Petersen as his offensive coordinator; Petersen was a quarterback at UC Davis while Hawkins was an assistant coach, and was the wide receivers coach at Oregon under head coach Mike Bellotti. Petersen succeeded Hawkins as head coach following the 2005 season, when Hawkins departed for Colorado.

Colorado

Hawkins was introduced as head football coach at the University of Colorado on December 16, 2005.[4] Hawkins was signed to a five-year contract paying him $900,000 annually with incentives totaling to $1.5 million.[5] Hawkins took over the Colorado football program from Gary Barnett, who had spent some of his tenure mired in controversy.

Hawkins earned national attention in February 2007 during the National Signing Day press conference. He passionately expressed his disappointment in the attitude of a player's parent who had anonymously complained about the reduction in the players' time off before the summer conditioning program started, famously saying "It's Division I football! It's the Big 12! It ain't intramurals! You've got two weeks after finals. You've got a week at July 4th. You've got a week before camp starts. That's a month! That's probably more vacation than you guys (reporters) get. And we're a little bummed out that we don't get three weeks? Go play intramurals, brother. Go play intramurals."[6]

Prior to the 2009 season, Hawkins, under fire for his performance at Colorado thus far, publicly pledged "ten wins no excuses". The team ended that year with a 3–9 record. On November 26, 2009, Colorado athletic director Mike Bohn announced that Hawkins would return as head football coach for the 2010 season, despite an overall record at Colorado of 16–33.

On November 6, 2010, Colorado blew a 28-point fourth quarter lead over the Kansas Jayhawks and lost, 52–45, the biggest collapse in the 121-year history of Colorado football.[7] While still nursing that large lead in the fourth quarter, Hawkins continued to have his team throw the ball on offense instead of running it, allowing Kansas time to mount its comeback. There has been widespread suspicion Hawkins made that choice because he was more concerned about his quarterback, son Cody, breaking the school's all-time passing record than winning the game.[8]

After the Kansas loss, Hawkins was criticized for cutting his contractually-obligated post-game interview with radio station KOA short after just two questions and 27 seconds. After the interviewer asked him why Colorado didn't run the ball more to protect their shrinking lead, he dismissively replied, "We were playing football moving it both ways. A tough day. Thanks, guys."[9]

As it turned out, it would be the last game Hawkins would coach at Colorado. He was fired on November 9, 2010.[10] He was making approximately $1.5 million a year including incentives and base salary; his buyout was approximately $2 million.[7] Longtime assistant Brian Cabral finished out the season.

Broadcasting

Between 2011 and 2016, Hawkins served as a college football analyst for ESPN.[11]

Montreal Alouettes

On February 19, 2013, Hawkins was named the new head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.[12] On June 27, 2013, Hawkins won his first game as Alouettes head coach, defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Winnipeg. On August 1, 2013, he was fired by the team after starting the season 2–3. He was replaced by the general manager Jim Popp.[13]

US national team

Hawkins coached the 2015 United States national American football team at the 2015 IFAF World Championship to a gold medal.[14] In 2016 Hawkins served as offensive coordinator for Vikings Vienna in the Austrian Football League.[15]

UC Davis

On November 18, 2016, Hawkins accepted an offer to become head coach of the UC Davis Aggies. He had been slated to serve as offensive coordinator at Florida International under Butch Davis when he was offered the position with the Aggies.[16]

Personal life

Hawkins is married to Misti Rae Ann Hokanson, a registered nurse. They are the parents of four grown children, daughters Ashley and Brittany, and sons Cody[17] and Drew, former Boise state quarterback.[18]

Head coaching record

College

Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP°
Willamette Bearcats (Northwest Conference) (1993–1997)
1993 Willamette 5–43–2
1994 Willamette 7–24–12nd
1995 Willamette 6–2–14–0–11st
1996 Willamette 9–25–01stL NAIA Division II Quarterfinal
1997 Willamette 13–15–01stL NAIA Division Championship
Willamette: 40–11–121–3–1
Boise State Broncos (Western Athletic Conference) (2001–2005)
2001 Boise State 8–46–22nd
2002 Boise State 12–18–01stW Humanitarian1215
2003 Boise State 13–18–01stW Fort Worth1516
2004 Boise State 11–18–01stL Liberty1312
2005 Boise State 9–47–1T–1stL MPC Computers
Boise State: 53–1137–3
Colorado Buffaloes (Big 12 Conference) (2006–2010)
2006 Colorado 2–102–65th (North)
2007 Colorado 6–74–43rd (North)L Independence
2008 Colorado 5–72–6T–4th (North)
2009 Colorado 3–92–65th (North)
2010 Colorado 3–6[n 1]0–5[n 1]5th (North)
Colorado: 19–3910–27
UC Davis Aggies (Big Sky Conference) (2017–present)
2017 UC Davis 5–63–58th
2018 UC Davis 4–12–0
UC Davis: 9–75–5
Total:121–68–1
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

CFL

TeamYearRegular SeasonPost Season
WonLostTiesWin %FinishWonLostResult
MTL2013 2300.400fired mid-season––fired mid-season
Total 2300.40000

Coaching tree

Assistant coaches under Dan Hawkins who became NCAA or NFL head coaches:

Notes

  1. 1 2 Hawkins was fired after nine games. Brian Cabral coached the final three games of the season.

References

  1. ↑ 5280.com Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine. – Dan Hawkins and the power of positive thinking – September 2008 – accessed 2012-06-07
  2. ↑ ESPN Media Zone3.com – profile – Dan Hawkins – 2011-09-12 – accessed 2011-10-16
  3. ↑ "2006 Colorado football season". CUBuffs.com. 2006. Archived from the original on 2011-03-06. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
  4. ↑ "Colorado introduces Hawkins as head coach". ESPN.go.com. 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
  5. ↑ "Employment Agreement Between Dan Hawkins and The Regents of the University of Colorado" (PDF). USA Today. 2006-06-30. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
  6. ↑ "Hawkins' rant getting plenty of air time". The Denver Post. 2007-02-16. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  7. 1 2 "Colorado fires Hawkins; McCartney is candidate". 10 November 2010.
  8. ↑ Krieger, Dave (2010-11-08). "Krieger: Suspicion infects CU football program". Denver Post.
  9. ↑ Saunders, Dusty (2010-11-08). "Dusty Saunders: Dungy's quiet style cuts through noise". Denver Post.
  10. ↑ "Reports: Dan Hawkins out at Colorado". ESPN.go.com. 2010-11-09. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
  11. ↑ http://thecomeback.com/ncaa/dan-hawkins-uc-davis-head-coach.html
  12. ↑ "404".
  13. ↑ Florio, Mike (August 1, 2013). "Popp fires Trestman's replacement, hires himself". NBCSports.com. ProFootballTalk.com.
  14. ↑ "Mount Union QB Kevin Burke among players selected to play for U.S. National Team in summer World Championships". Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Plain Dealer. June 2, 2015. Archived from the original on June 3, 2015. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  15. ↑ Andrew Doughty, "Dan Hawkins is new Offensive Coordinator for Vienna Vikings of Austrian Football League", Sports Illustrated Campus Rush, 3 March 2016,
  16. ↑ Brett McMurphy and Adam Rittenberg, "UC Davis hires alumnus Dan Hawkins as head coach", ESPN, 28 November 2016 )
  17. ↑ "Cody Hawkins - 2009 Football Roster - CUBuffs.com - University of Colorado Buffaloes Athletics".
  18. ↑ Bishop Kelly Football Article
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