Current position | |
---|---|
Title | Head coach |
Team | Illinois State |
Conference | MVFC |
Record | 102–71 |
Annual salary | US$300,000 |
Biographical details | |
Born | Rockford, Illinois, U.S. | January 5, 1962
Alma mater | Purdue University Eastern Illinois University |
Playing career | |
1980–1983 | Purdue |
Position(s) | Linebacker |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1984–1985 | Purdue (GA) |
1986 | Wabash (assistant ST) |
1987–1990 | Eastern Illinois (assistant ST) |
1991–1994 | Purdue (DB) |
1995–1996 | Wyoming (DC) |
1997–2008 | Purdue (DC) |
2009–present | Illinois State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 101–70 |
Tournaments | 7–5 (NCAA D-I playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
2 MVFC (2014–2015) | |
Awards | |
| |
Brock D. Spack (born January 5, 1962) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach at Illinois State University, position he has held since December 2008. Previously, he was the defensive coordinator at Purdue University under Joe Tiller. [1]
Spack played linebacker at Purdue from 1980 to 1983, earning first-team All-Big Ten and honorable mention All-America honors as a sophomore. He was a three-year starter and currently ranks fifth on the Boilermakers' career tackles list with 384. [2] He graduated from Purdue in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in social studies and earned a master's degree in physical education from Eastern Illinois University in 1990.
After graduation, he was a graduate assistant in football at Purdue for the 1984 & 1985 seasons, where he worked with Joe Tiller (defensive coordinator) and Jim Colletto (offensive coordinator) under head coach Leon Burtnett. When Jim Colletto was hired to replace Fred Akers after the 1990 season, he retained Brock as a defensive coach from 1991–1994. For the 1995 season, Joe Tiller hired Brock Spack as defensive coordinator at Wyoming, where he coached two seasons before following Joe Tiller to Purdue in 1997 and remained defensive coordinator until 2008.
In the 2008 season, Danny Hope was hired to return to Purdue to become head coach in 2009 upon Joe Tiller's retirement. Spack had interviewed for the position, but Hope had the edge with head coaching experience that Spack lacked. Spack coached with Hope during the 2008 season under Tiller and had indicated his intention to stay on Hope's staff, but ultimately, when offered a head coaching position at Illinois State, Spack decided to leave his alma mater starting with the 2009 season.
During the 2021 season, Spack became the winningest coach in Illinois State history; passing Edwin Struck's mark of 86 wins. During the 2023 season, Spack reached the 100-win plateau with the Redbirds win over Missouri State on November 4th.
A native of Rockford, Illinois, Spack and his wife, Aimee, a former Purdue cheerleader, have two children, Alicia who played softball for Purdue [3] and Brent, who was a linebacker for Illinois State. [4]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | TSN# | Coaches° | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Illinois State Redbirds (Missouri Valley Football Conference)(2009–present) | |||||||||
2009 | Illinois State | 6–5 | 5–3 | T–3rd | |||||
2010 | Illinois State | 6–5 | 4–4 | T–3rd | |||||
2011 | Illinois State | 7–4 | 5–3 | 3rd | 18 | 17 | |||
2012 | Illinois State | 9–4 | 5–3 | T–3rd | L NCAA Division I Quarterfinal | 8 | 9 | ||
2013 | Illinois State | 5–6 | 4–4 | 6th | |||||
2014 | Illinois State | 13–2 | 7–1 | T–1st | L NCAA Division I Championship Game | 2 | 2 | ||
2015 | Illinois State | 10–3 | 7–1 | T–1st | L NCAA Division I Quarterfinal | 6 | 6 | ||
2016 | Illinois State | 6–6 | 4–4 | T–4th | L NCAA Division I First Round | ||||
2017 | Illinois State | 6–5 | 4–4 | T–5th | |||||
2018 | Illinois State | 6–5 | 3–5 | T–6th | |||||
2019 | Illinois State | 10–5 | 5–3 | T–3rd | L NCAA Division I Quarterfinal | 7 | 7 | ||
2020–21 | Illinois State | 1–3 | 1–3 | T–7th | |||||
2021 | Illinois State | 4–7 | 2–6 | T–9th | |||||
2022 | Illinois State | 6–5 | 4–4 | T–6th | |||||
2023 | Illinois State | 6–5 | 4–4 | T–7th | |||||
2024 | Illinois State | 2–1 | 0–0 | ||||||
Illinois State: | 103–71 | 64–52 | |||||||
Total: | 103–71 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
Taylor Evans Stubblefield is an American football coach and former player who is the wide receivers coach for the Air Force Falcons. He played professionally as a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers and St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He left Purdue University owning the most receptions in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history. Stubblefield was most recently the wide receivers coach with the Toronto Argonauts. A three-sport athlete at A.C. Davis High School, Stubblefield committed to the Purdue University to play football for the Boilermakers. In his collegiate debut in 2001, he had five receptions for 65 yards. He led the team in receptions and was named to the All-Freshman Big Ten team by Sporting News. During his sophomore season, he finished with 77 receptions for 789 yards, but didn't record a touchdown catch. As a junior in 2003, Stubblefield earned second-team All-Big Ten honors at the conclusion of the season. In the 2001 Sun Bowl, he had nine catches for a Sun Bowl-record 196 yards. During the 2004 season, Stubblefield was a Biletnikoff Award finalist, earned first-team All-Big Ten honors and was named a consensus All-American.He concluded his college career with an NCAA record of 325 receptions, which he held for seven years, 3,629 yards, and 27 touchdowns. He was inducted into the Purdue Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015 and was also named to the 75th Anniversary Sun Bowl Team.
Joseph Henry Tiller was an American football player and coach. He was the head coach at the University of Wyoming from 1991 to 1996 and Purdue University from 1997 to 2008, with a career record of 126–92–1 (.578).Tiller was known as one of the innovators of the spread offense.
The Purdue Boilermakers football team represents Purdue University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football. Purdue plays its home games at Ross–Ade Stadium on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The head coach of Purdue is Ryan Walters, the 37th head coach in Purdue history. The Boilermakers compete in the Big Ten Conference.
Nicholas Holt V is an American football coach who is currently the head coach of Skorpions Varese of the Federazione Italiana di American Football. Previously he was co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Purdue University for three seasons from 2017 to 2019. Before that he was the defensive coordinator at Western Kentucky from 2013 to 2016. Earlier in his career, Holt was defensive coordinator and assistant head coach of the Washington Huskies, defensive coordinator and defensive line coach of the USC Trojans, and head coach of the Idaho Vandals from 2004 to 2005.
Joe Barry is an American football coach who is the linebackers coach and run game coordinator for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). His career includes having served as the assistant head coach and linebackers coach for the Los Angeles Rams, as well as serving as the defensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions, and Green Bay Packers. Barry also previously served as an assistant coach for the San Diego Chargers, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Francisco 49ers. Barry is the son of former coach Mike Barry.
Jim Colletto is a former American football player and coach. He attended Monterey High School (1958–1962) where he was an all conference baseball and football player and starter on the varsity basketball team. At UCLA Colletto was all conference in baseball and football; where he led the team in rushing as a sophomore and as a senior defensive end was captain of the UCLA team that beat Michigan State in the 1966 Rose Bowl.
Robert Damien DeBesse aka uncle Bob is an American football coach. He was most recently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach of the Georgia Southern Eagles. He was relieved of his duties by Head Coach Chad Lunsford during the 2020 season.
Kevin Warren Sumlin is an American football coach who is the associate head coach, co-offensive coordinator, and tight ends coach for the University of Maryland. Sumlin served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from 2008 to 2011, Texas A&M University from 2012 to 2017, and at the University of Arizona from 2018 to 2020.
James T. Reid is an American football coach and former player. Reid served as head football coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) from 1986 to 1991, University of Richmond from 1995 through 2003, and Virginia Military Institute (VMI) from 2006 until 2007, compiling an overall college football record of 87–101–3.
Charles Daniel Hope is an American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Eastern Kentucky University from 2003 to 2007, and Purdue University from 2009 to 2012, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 57–49. He was most recently the co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the South Florida Bulls football team before stepping down after one season for family reasons.
Marcus Freeman is an American football coach and former linebacker who is the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He previously served as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Notre Dame in 2021. Freeman has also previously served as an assistant coach at the University of Cincinnati, Purdue University, Kent State University, and Ohio State University.
Kevin Wolthausen is an American football coach and former linebacker. He is the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at East Tennessee State University, a position he has held since 2024.
David William Doeren is an American football coach who is currently the head football coach at North Carolina State University, a position he has held since the 2013 season. Doeren previously served as the head football coach at Northern Illinois University from 2011 to 2012 and has been an assistant at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Kansas, University of Montana, and University of Southern California. He played college football at Drake University, where he also held his first assistant coaching position.
Brad Lambert is an American college football coach who is currently the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Wake Forest University. He was the head coach of the Charlotte 49ers until November 18, 2018, and helped transition the 49ers football program from conception through a two year stint in the Football Championship Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2015, when the program joined the rest of the 49ers' sports in programs in Conference USA.
The 1997 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by first-year head coach Joe Tiller, the Boilermakers compiled an overall record of 9–3 with a mark of 6–2 in conference play, placing in a three-way tie in the Big Ten. Purdue had its best season since 1980. The team played home games at Ross–Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Robert Albert Diaco is an American football coach and a former linebacker. He is a defensive analyst for the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). He played college football at the University of Iowa for coach Hayden Fry from 1992 to 1995. He then served as the head coach of the UConn Huskies (2014–2016).
Billy Charles Dicken is a former arena football quarterback who is currently the defensive quality coach for the NC State Football team. Dicken played in the Arena Football League (AFL) from 2001 to 2006 for the Chicago Rush, Detroit Fury, New Orleans VooDoo and the Columbus Destroyers. He played college football at Purdue University from 1994 to 1997.
Kevin Sherrer is an American football coach and former player who is currently the defensive coordinator at Georgia State as of March 2024. Before that was the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. He also previously served as the defensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee (2018–2019), the outside linebackers coach at Georgia (2014–2017), the defensive coordinator at South Alabama (2013), the Director of Player Development at Alabama (2010–2012), and as a high school assistant coach at Hoover High School, Spain Park High School, and Tuscaloosa County. He played college football at Alabama.
Kevin Kane is an American football coach and former linebacker, who is the current defensive coordinator for the Purdue Boilermakers. He played college football at Kansas from 2002 to 2005. He served as the defensive coordinator of the Northern Illinois Huskies (2016–2017) and SMU Mustangs (2018–2020).
Tim Tibesar is an American football coach who is the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Akron. Formerly was the defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Oregon State University.