- Duane Akina
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Duane Akina Sport(s) Football Current position Title Defensive Backs Coach Team Texas Biographical details Born c. 1958 (age 52–53) Place of birth Honolulu, HI Playing career 1976-1979 Washington Position(s) QB Coaching career (HC unless noted) 2011-present
January 2011
2008-2010
2005-2007
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2001-2002
1996-2000
1992-1995
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1986
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1983
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1979-1980Texas (DBs coach)
Arizona (DBs coach)
Texas (Asst. head coach/DBs coach)
Texas (Co-defensive coord./DBs coach)
Texas (Asst. head coach/DBs coach)
Texas (DBs coach)
Arizona (DBs coach)
Arizona (Defensive coord.)
Arizona (DBs coach)
Calgary Stampeders (DBs coach)
Hawaiʻi (DBs coach)
Hawaiʻi (OLBs coach)
Hawaiʻi (DBs coach)
Washington (Grad. assistant)Duane Akina (born c. 1958) is the assistant head coach and defensive backs coach for the Texas Longhorns football team.
In 28 years of coaching football, Akina has coached three Thorpe Award winners in Darryll Lewis (1990), Michael Huff (2005), and Aaron Ross (2006), as well as five finalists for the award, among them Chris McAlister. Twenty of his defensive backs have also gone on to play in the NFL.
He was an assistant coach to Dick Tomey at the University of Arizona for 14 years, serving as defensive backs coach and co-defensive coordinator. Akina helped oversee the "Desert Swarm" defense with Mac Duff, and formed a unit that led the nation in fewest points allowed (8.9 per game) in 1992 and led in fewest rushing yards allowed (30.1) in 1993. He was named Arizona defensive coordinator in 2000, but decided to leave for Texas to become the team's defensive back coach.
Akina was promoted to co-defensive coordinator and retained his duties as defensive backs coach for the Longhorns from 2005-2007. In the 2007 season, he shared the defensive coordinator position with Larry Mac Duff, but called the defensive plays.[1] After a frustrating season, in which the Longhorns defense allowed a school-record 4,498 total yards, Akina could have faced dismissal following the 2007 Holiday Bowl.[2] However, not Akina, but Larry Mac Duff resigned.[3] Akina was nonetheless demoted to secondary coach after Will Muschamp was hired as the new defensive coordinator.
Following June Jones' resignation at Hawaiʻi, Akina was considered to be one of the candidates for his replacement.[4]
In January of 2011, it was announced that Akina would be leaving the Longhorns to be the defensive backs coach at the University of Arizona. One month later, his replacement at Texas, Jerry Grey, left the Longhorns to become the defensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans. A few days later, Akina announced that he would be returning to Texas to resume his defensive backs position with the Longhorns due to family considerations.[5]
References
- ^ Halliburton, Suzanne (2007-01-12). "Akina, Mac Duff each earn $300,000". Austin-American Statesman. http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/entries/2007/01/12/akina_mac_duff_each_earn_300000.html. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
- ^ Dallas Morning News: Holiday Bowl may be last shot for Texas' Akina
- ^ Austin American-Statesman: Assistant coach Mac Duff leaves the Longhorns' staff
- ^ Could Akina be headed to Hawaii?
- ^ Dallas Morning News: Akina returning to Texas football staff
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