Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Southeastern Louisiana |
Conference | Southland |
Record | 36–24 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Visalia, California |
October 9, 1967
Playing career | |
1986–1987 | Sequoias |
1988–1989 | Tennessee–Martin |
Position(s) | Linebacker |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1990–1993 | Houston HS (TN) (DC) |
1994–1996 | Burroughs HS (CA) |
1997 | Greensboro (DC) |
1998–2002 | Tusculum (DC) |
2003 | Texas State (DC) |
2004 | Mt. Whitney HS (CA) |
2005–2006 | Delta State (DC) |
2007–2011 | Delta State |
2012–present | Southeastern Louisiana |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 83-40 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
4x Gulf South (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011) 2x Southland (2013, 2014) |
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Ron Roberts (born October 9, 1967) is the head football coach at Southeastern Louisiana University. He was the head coach at Delta State University for five seasons. He grew up in California and attended the College of the Sequoias before transferring to the University of Tennessee at Martin where he played linebacker from 1986 to 1989. He began his coaching career in 1990 as a high school defensive coordinator, and has coached at several high schools and held assistant coaching positions at the college level at Greensboro, Tusculum, Texas State and Delta State. Roberts was promoted as Delta State's head football coach in 2007 and led the Statesmen to playoff appearances four times between 2007 and 2011. He was named Southeastern Louisiana's head coach on December 19, 2011.
Roberts started his coaching career as the defensive coordinator at Houston High School in 1990. From Houston, Roberts served as head coach at Burroughs High School from 1994 to 1996 before taking his first college job at Greensboro in 1997. From Greensboro he served as defensive coordinator at both Tusculum (1998–2002) and Texas State (2003) before returning to the head coaching ranks at Mt. Whitney High School in 2004. In January 2005 Roberts resigned his position at Mt. Whitney to serve as defensive coordinator at Delta State University