Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Kent State |
Conference | MAC |
Record | 12–35 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Columbus, Ohio |
July 11, 1969
Playing career | |
1987–1991 | Kent State |
Position(s) | Defensive back |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1993 | St. Francis DeSales HS (Assistant) |
1994 | Bowling Green (GA) |
1995–1996 | Ferris State (DB) |
1997-1998 | Northern Iowa (RB/DB) |
1999 | Kent State (DB) |
2000 | Kent State (AHC/S) |
2001 | Jacksonville Jaguars (DQC) |
2002 | Louisville (DB) |
2003–2004 | Michigan State (DB) |
2005–2010 | Ohio State (DB) |
2011 | Ohio State (Co-DC/S) |
2012 | Arkansas (DC/DB) |
2013–present | Kent State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 12–35 |
Paul Jeffrey Haynes III (born July 11, 1969) is an American college football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Kent State University, a position he has held since December 2012. Haynes previously served as an assistant coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels for 20 years, including stints as defensive coordinator at Ohio State University and the University of Arkansas. Prior to his coaching career, he was a four-year letterman as a defensive back at Kent State between 1987 and 1991.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Haynes graduated from St. Francis DeSales High School and lettered in football, basketball, and track while in high school. Graduating in 1987, Haynes enrolled at Kent State University that year and walked on to the Kent State Golden Flashes football team as a defensive back and led the team in interceptions in his freshman season, in which Kent State finished 7–4 (5–3 and second place in the MAC). Missing the 1989 season with a knee injury, Haynes earned letters for the 1988, 1990, and 1991 seasons and ended his collegiate career with 440 career tackles and second-team All-MAC honors in his junior and senior seasons. Haynes completed his bachelor's degree in criminal justice at Kent State in 1992.
In 1993, Haynes returned to St. Francis DeSales High School as secondary coach. The next year, he began graduate studies in counseling at Bowling Green State University and served as a graduate assistant on the Bowling Green Falcons football team for the 1994 season. From 1995 to 1996, Haynes was defensive backs and special teams coach at Division II Ferris State. He moved up to the Division I-AA level at Northern Iowa in 1997 again as a defensive backs coach.