Football
ShaDon Brown
- Title:
- Asst. Coach/Safeties
- Email:
- shadon@GoCards.com
A veteran of the coaching profession and a Kentucky native, ShaDon Brown was hired as the safeties coach at the University of Louisville on Dec. 12, 2018.
In 2019, Brown guided a safety group, which was led by Khane Pass, who posted a career high 81 tackles, and made the key defensive play in the Music City Bowl win by returning a fumble for a key touchdown late in the game.
Brown spent the 2017-18 seasons as part of Mike MacIntyre’s staff at Colorado as the secondary coach, and was promoted to defensive passing game coordinator for the 2018 season.
The Colorado secondary thrived over Brown’s two years, allowing opponents to complete just 56.2 percent of passes. The Buffaloes led the Pac-12 Conference in opposing completion percentage (56.7 percent) last season and ranked fourth in 2017.
Brown coached a pair of All-Conference selections at Colorado with Evan Worthington garnering honorable mention honors in 2018. Isaiah Oliver was a first team All-Pac-12 selection in 2017 and was a second round selection by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2018 National Football League draft.
Prior to his time in Boulder, Brown spent the 2016 season coaching cornerbacks at Army. The Black Knights had one of the top defensive back units in the country, ranking sixth nationally in passing defense (170.2 yards per game), 11th in interceptions (17) and 17th in pass efficiency defense (115.12 rating).
Brown was part of Army’s turnaround from 2-10 in 2015 to an 8-5 record in 2016 that included a win over North Texas in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.
Brown spent five seasons (2011-15) at Wofford College, the first four as cornerbacks coach before switching to the safeties in his final year there. Brown was also the special teams coordinator during the 2013-14 seasons and was promoted to recruiting coordinator in the spring of 2015. He coached three all-conference corners at Wofford, including Blake Wylie who earned third-team All-American honors in 2012.
In the summer of 2015, he participated in the NFL’s program for minority coaches by interning with the Super Bowl 50 runner-up Carolina Panthers, where he worked with the defensive backs.
Before joining the Wofford staff, Brown was a coach in the Kentucky high school ranks. From 2008-10 he was head coach at Rowan County High School, where he led the Vikings to the 2010 Class 4A District 8 Championship, the school’s first title since 1982. He was named the Kentucky Class 4A District 8 Coach of the Year for that season, and 10 of his players went on to play college football. He was an assistant coach at Boyle County High for the 2007 season.
After graduating, he started his coaching career in 2003 as a graduate assistant helping tutor the linebackers at the University of the Cumberlands. After one year, he was promoted to the full-time assistant coach for the inside linebackers for the 2004-05 seasons, helping lead the Patriot football team to a ranking as high as No. 5 in the nation. In 2006, he returned to his alma mater as the inside linebackers coach for one season.
He and his wife, Rhonda, have a daughter, Shaelyn, and two sons, Braylon and Keenan.
In 2019, Brown guided a safety group, which was led by Khane Pass, who posted a career high 81 tackles, and made the key defensive play in the Music City Bowl win by returning a fumble for a key touchdown late in the game.
Brown spent the 2017-18 seasons as part of Mike MacIntyre’s staff at Colorado as the secondary coach, and was promoted to defensive passing game coordinator for the 2018 season.
The Colorado secondary thrived over Brown’s two years, allowing opponents to complete just 56.2 percent of passes. The Buffaloes led the Pac-12 Conference in opposing completion percentage (56.7 percent) last season and ranked fourth in 2017.
Brown coached a pair of All-Conference selections at Colorado with Evan Worthington garnering honorable mention honors in 2018. Isaiah Oliver was a first team All-Pac-12 selection in 2017 and was a second round selection by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2018 National Football League draft.
Prior to his time in Boulder, Brown spent the 2016 season coaching cornerbacks at Army. The Black Knights had one of the top defensive back units in the country, ranking sixth nationally in passing defense (170.2 yards per game), 11th in interceptions (17) and 17th in pass efficiency defense (115.12 rating).
Brown was part of Army’s turnaround from 2-10 in 2015 to an 8-5 record in 2016 that included a win over North Texas in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.
Brown spent five seasons (2011-15) at Wofford College, the first four as cornerbacks coach before switching to the safeties in his final year there. Brown was also the special teams coordinator during the 2013-14 seasons and was promoted to recruiting coordinator in the spring of 2015. He coached three all-conference corners at Wofford, including Blake Wylie who earned third-team All-American honors in 2012.
In the summer of 2015, he participated in the NFL’s program for minority coaches by interning with the Super Bowl 50 runner-up Carolina Panthers, where he worked with the defensive backs.
Before joining the Wofford staff, Brown was a coach in the Kentucky high school ranks. From 2008-10 he was head coach at Rowan County High School, where he led the Vikings to the 2010 Class 4A District 8 Championship, the school’s first title since 1982. He was named the Kentucky Class 4A District 8 Coach of the Year for that season, and 10 of his players went on to play college football. He was an assistant coach at Boyle County High for the 2007 season.
After graduating, he started his coaching career in 2003 as a graduate assistant helping tutor the linebackers at the University of the Cumberlands. After one year, he was promoted to the full-time assistant coach for the inside linebackers for the 2004-05 seasons, helping lead the Patriot football team to a ranking as high as No. 5 in the nation. In 2006, he returned to his alma mater as the inside linebackers coach for one season.
He and his wife, Rhonda, have a daughter, Shaelyn, and two sons, Braylon and Keenan.
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