Joe Kines

College coach infobox


Name = Joe Kines
Caption = Joe Kines
DateOfBirth = Birth date and age|1944|7|13|mf=y
Birthplace =
Sport = Football
College = Texas A&M
Title = Defensive coordinator
Contract = $400,000 [cite news|url=http://newsok.com/big-12-assistant-coaches-pay-by-job/article/3272560/?mp=0|title=Big 12 assistant coaches' pay by job]
CurrentRecord =
OverallRecord = 3–7–1
Awards =
Championships =
BowlRecord = 0–1
CFbDWID = 1274
Player = Y
Years = 1964–66
Team = Jacksonville State
Position =
Coach = Y
CoachYears = 1976
1977–78
1979–84
1985–86
1987–90
1991–92
1992
1993–94
1995–99
2000–2002
2003–2006
2006

2008–
CoachTeams = Arkansas (Asst. HC/DC)
Clemson (LB)
Florida (LB/DC)
Alabama (LB/DC)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (LB)
Arkansas (DC)
Arkansas
Arkansas (Asst. HC/DC)
Georgia (Asst. HC/DC/DE)
Florida State (LB)
Alabama (DC)
Alabama (Bowl game, Interim HC)
Texas A&M (DC)
FootballHOF =

Joe Kines (born July 13, 1944) is currently the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator of the Texas A&M Aggies college football team.cite press release|url=http://www.aggieathletics.com/pressRelease.php?SID=&PRID=13929|title=Kines Named Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator|publisher=Texas A&M Athletics|accessdate=2008-02-13|date=2008-02-13] He was hired to the position in February 2008. Prior to coaching at Texas A&M, he served as the interim head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2006 Petrosun Independence Bowl.

Early life

Joe Kines was born on July 13, 1944 in a train car that was en route from Cedartown, Georgia to Piedmont, Alabama.cite news |first=Andy |last=Staples |title=Alabama Benefiting From Kines' Experience |work=Tampa Tribune |page=1 |date=2006-11-28 |accessdate=2007-04-05] He holds both bachelors and masters degrees from Jacksonville State. Kines is married to the former Rubye Bell and they have one daughter and two grandsons. [cite news|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/topstories/stories/041708dnspoamkineslede.2f12b3e.html|title=Texas A&M's defensive coordinator full of fire|date=2008-04-16]

Coaching career

Kines began his coaching career at his alma mater, where he served as assistant coach and defensive coordinator through the 1976 season. In 1977, he received an offer to coach the linebackers at Clemson University, where he coached for the next two seasons. In 1979, Kines became linebackers coach at the University of Florida under Charley Pell. There he spent two years as the linebackers coach, and was promoted to defensive coordinator in 1981. In 1985 and 1986, Kines was the defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach at The University of Alabama before leaving with Ray Perkins to the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He served as the Buc’s linebacker coach from 1987-90. Kines returned to college coaching in 1991 as the defensive coordinator at The University of Arkansas and was promoted to head coach of the Razorbacks in 1992 when Jack Crowe was fired following a season-opening loss to The Citadel. He guided the Razorbacks to a 45-7 victory over the University of South Carolina in the Hogs' first game in the SEC in his first game after taking over for Crowe, and closed the season with a 30-6 rout of archrival Louisiana State University in the first game between the schools since the Cotton Bowl following the 1965 season.

He was Arkansas’ assistant head coach and defensive coordinator from 1993-94 to Danny Ford before moving on to the University of Georgia. There he served as the Bulldogs’ defensive coordinator from 1995-98 and as assistant head coach in 1999. He also coached the defensive ends while at Georgia. In 2000, Kines left Athens to become linebackers coach at Florida State University under Bobby Bowden.

Kines returned as defensive coordinator at the University of Alabama in 2003 and remained in that position through the 2006 Head coach Mike Shula was fired on November 27, 2006, and Kines was named interim head coach while a search was conducted for a permanent replacement. Kines' team lost to Oklahoma State 34-31 in the PetroSun Independence Bowl. New Alabama head coach Nick Saban did not retain any of Shula's staff; however, Kines was hired as an officer with Tide Pride, which is responsible for helping to fund scholarships, generating revenue for capital improvements, and supporting the "Million Dollar Band," among other activities.Fact|date=February 2008

On February 13, 2008, Texas A&M head coach Mike Sherman hired Kines to be his defensive coordinator and assistant head coach. Kines initially did not show interest to the position, but after he exchanged words with Sherman in an interview, he accepted. Kines has called the Aggie defensive squad "awful, and that's being real polite" in the 2008 preseason. Aggie safeties coach Van Malone praised him as being a great communicator: "He's one of the greatest communicators I've ever been around, and if you can communicate with them, that's all these kids want." He won't say a cuss word, but when you're not doing it the way he wants it, you feel like you've been cursed out." [cite news|url=http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/08/04/0804aggies.html|title=Back where he belongs: Aggie defensive coordinator Kines, 64, takes up where he left off after a year away from coaching]

References

External links

* [http://www.rolltide.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8000&ATCLID=239578 Official Alabama Biography]