Football
Brown, ShaDon
vs
Wyoming
Sep 20 (Sat)
8:15 p.m.
ShaDon Brown
- Title:
- Assistant Coach/Secondary
- Email:
- shadon.brown@colorado.edu
- Phone:
- 303-492-7450
Last updated on July 19, 2018
ShaDon Brown is in his second season as an assistant coach on Mike MacIntyre's staff, as he was hired on January 30, 2017 to coach the entire secondary. In January 2018, he was promoted to defensive passing game coordinator while exclusively coaching the safeties.
In his first season in Boulder, the Buffaloes only allowed opposing quarterbacks to complete 55.8 percent of their passes, which ranked in a tie for the fourth lowest opposing completion percentage in the Pac-12. Junior Isaiah Oliver was one of the top corners in the nation, earning first-team All-Pac-12 honors and was a second round selection by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2018 National Football League draft.
Brown, 38, came to CU after spending the 2016 season coaching the cornerbacks at Army, where the Black Knights’ secondary was one of the top units in the nation. Army ranked sixth in the nation in passing defense allowing just 170.2 yards per game, as well as being 11th in interceptions (17) and 17th in a pass efficiency defense (115.12 rating).
Army, which ran a 3-4 defensive scheme (like CU), ranked fourth in the nation in total defense by allowing just 291.5 yards per game during an 8-5 season that saw the Black Knights win the 2016 Heart of Dallas Bowl in overtime over North Texas, 38-31. That was Army's first bowl appearance and winning season since 2010, and perhaps even bigger, his corners help limit Navy to 89 passing yards and 201 overall in a 21-17 win over the Midshipmen, Army’s first win over its archrival since 2001.
Brown had a large impact on Army's turnaround (2-10 in ’15) to winning a bowl game, aiding improvements from 47th in the NCAA in total defense to fourth (and from 48th in passing defense to sixth). And the success Army's secondary found came with Brown working with true freshman for most of the season, after the Knights lost four veteran cornerbacks either before or early in the season and thus made a go of it with true freshman starting most of the year.
In his five seasons (2011-15) at Wofford (S.C.) College, he spent 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 in 2012 was earned third-team All-American honors.
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 at went on to play college football. He was an assistant coach at Boyle County High for the 2007 season.
As a player himself, Brown started at linebacker for Campbellsville (Ky.) University, an NAIA school that in 2001 won a school record 10 games, reached the NAIA quarterfinals for the first time and finished the season ranked No. 10. He served as a team captain as a senior in 2002.
After graduating in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in Physical Education, he started his coaching career in 2003 as a graduate assistant helping tutor the linebackers at the University of the Cumberlands (Williamsburg, Ky.). 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 (Campbellsville) as the inside linebackers coach for one season.
A native of Danville, Ky., he graduated from Danville High School where he lettered in football under a legendary area coach, Sam Harp (276 wins and seven state titles in a 25-year career; Brown credits Harp with developing the drive in him to pursue a career in coaching). He and his wife, Rhonda, have a daughter, Shaelyn, and two sons, Braylon and Keenan.
AT-A-GLANCE—He has coached in 25 Division I-A (FBS) games as a full-time coach, and has coached in one bowl game (2016 Heart of Dallas). He also coached in 58 I-AA (FCS) games at Wofford, including three FCS playoff games, for a total of 83 collegiate games.
ShaDon Brown is in his second season as an assistant coach on Mike MacIntyre's staff, as he was hired on January 30, 2017 to coach the entire secondary. In January 2018, he was promoted to defensive passing game coordinator while exclusively coaching the safeties.
In his first season in Boulder, the Buffaloes only allowed opposing quarterbacks to complete 55.8 percent of their passes, which ranked in a tie for the fourth lowest opposing completion percentage in the Pac-12. Junior Isaiah Oliver was one of the top corners in the nation, earning first-team All-Pac-12 honors and was a second round selection by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2018 National Football League draft.
Brown, 38, came to CU after spending the 2016 season coaching the cornerbacks at Army, where the Black Knights’ secondary was one of the top units in the nation. Army ranked sixth in the nation in passing defense allowing just 170.2 yards per game, as well as being 11th in interceptions (17) and 17th in a pass efficiency defense (115.12 rating).
Army, which ran a 3-4 defensive scheme (like CU), ranked fourth in the nation in total defense by allowing just 291.5 yards per game during an 8-5 season that saw the Black Knights win the 2016 Heart of Dallas Bowl in overtime over North Texas, 38-31. That was Army's first bowl appearance and winning season since 2010, and perhaps even bigger, his corners help limit Navy to 89 passing yards and 201 overall in a 21-17 win over the Midshipmen, Army’s first win over its archrival since 2001.
Brown had a large impact on Army's turnaround (2-10 in ’15) to winning a bowl game, aiding improvements from 47th in the NCAA in total defense to fourth (and from 48th in passing defense to sixth). And the success Army's secondary found came with Brown working with true freshman for most of the season, after the Knights lost four veteran cornerbacks either before or early in the season and thus made a go of it with true freshman starting most of the year.
In his five seasons (2011-15) at Wofford (S.C.) College, he spent 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 in 2012 was earned third-team All-American honors.
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 at went on to play college football. He was an assistant coach at Boyle County High for the 2007 season.
As a player himself, Brown started at linebacker for Campbellsville (Ky.) University, an NAIA school that in 2001 won a school record 10 games, reached the NAIA quarterfinals for the first time and finished the season ranked No. 10. He served as a team captain as a senior in 2002.
After graduating in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in Physical Education, he started his coaching career in 2003 as a graduate assistant helping tutor the linebackers at the University of the Cumberlands (Williamsburg, Ky.). 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 (Campbellsville) as the inside linebackers coach for one season.
A native of Danville, Ky., he graduated from Danville High School where he lettered in football under a legendary area coach, Sam Harp (276 wins and seven state titles in a 25-year career; Brown credits Harp with developing the drive in him to pursue a career in coaching). He and his wife, Rhonda, have a daughter, Shaelyn, and two sons, Braylon and Keenan.
AT-A-GLANCE—He has coached in 25 Division I-A (FBS) games as a full-time coach, and has coached in one bowl game (2016 Heart of Dallas). He also coached in 58 I-AA (FCS) games at Wofford, including three FCS playoff games, for a total of 83 collegiate games.
| COACHING EXPERIENCE | ||
| 2003 | U. of the Cumberlands | Graduate Assistant |
| 2004-05 | U. of the Cumberlands | Inside Linebackers |
| 2006 | Campbellsville | Inside Linebackers |
| 2007 | Boyle County (Ky.) HS | Assistant Coach |
| 2008-10 | Rowan County (Ky.) HS | Head Coach |
| 2011-14 | Wofford | Cornerbacks |
| 2015 | Carolina Panthers | Summer Intern/Secondary |
| 2015 | Wofford | Safeties |
| 2016 | Army | Cornerbacks |
| 2017 | Colorado | Secondary |
| 2018- | Colorado | Defensive Passing Game Coordinator/Safeties |
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