Haynes Hired as Cornerbacks Coach
March 04, 2002 | Football
March 4, 2002
University of Louisville head football coach John L. Smith announced this afternoon that former Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Paul Haynes will join his staff as cornerbacks coach.
Haynes, who spent last season as a defensive quality control coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League, will work with a veteran secondary which returns intact from the 2001 squad that notched a school-record 11 wins. He replaces Greg Burns who is now the secondary coach at the University of Southern California.
With the Jaguars, Haynes, 32, assisted the defensive coaching staff in all aspects of game preparation, including scouting reports, opponent breakdown and writing the playbook. He also assisted in coaching the secondary.
He joined the Jaguars from Kent State, where he was the assistant head coach/safeties coach in 2000 after one season as the school's secondary coach. He spent the 1997 and '98 seasons at Northern Iowa, where he coached running backs and the secondary. Prior to that, Haynes was the secondary coach at Ferris State in 1995 and '96, a graduate assistant coach at Bowling Green in 1994, and an assistant coach at St. Francis DeSales High School in Columbus, Ohio, in 1993.
Haynes played safety at Kent State from 1987 to '90, earning a scholarship after walking on. He was team captain as a senior and second-team All-Conference as a junior and senior. He earned a bachelor's degree from Kent State in criminal justice and attended graduate school in guidance and counseling at Bowling Green. He is a native of Columbus, Ohio.
Haynes' Coaching Background: 1993 St. Francis DeSales High 1994 Bowling Green 1995-96 Ferris State 1997-98 Northern Iowa 1999-2000 Kent State 2001 Jacksonville Jaguars
