About: Duane Akina   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/lZcY7TuMFUhujwaneBJiaA==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

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 offensive coordinator. He was named Arizona defensive coordinator in 2000, but decided to leave for Texas to become the team's defensive back coach.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Duane Akina
rdfs:comment
  • 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 offensive coordinator. He was named Arizona defensive coordinator in 2000, but decided to leave for Texas to become the team's defensive back coach.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:americanfoo...iPageUsesTemplate
Birth Date
  • c.
player years
  • 1976(xsd:integer)
Name
  • Akina, Duane
  • Duane Akina
Sport
Coach
  • Y
Player
  • Y
player teams
Birth Place
  • Honolulu, HI
Current Title
coach years
  • 1979(xsd:integer)
  • 1981(xsd:integer)
  • 1983(xsd:integer)
  • 1984(xsd:integer)
  • 1986(xsd:integer)
  • 1987(xsd:integer)
  • 1992(xsd:integer)
  • 1996(xsd:integer)
  • 2001(xsd:integer)
  • 2003(xsd:integer)
  • 2005(xsd:integer)
  • 2008(xsd:integer)
  • 2011(xsd:integer)
  • January 2011
Place of Birth
coach teams
  • Arizona
  • Hawaii
  • Texas
  • Washington
  • Calgary Stampeders
Current Team
Date of Birth
  • 1958(xsd:integer)
Short Description
  • American football player
player positions
abstract
  • 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 offensive coordinator. 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. 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. However, not Akina, but Larry Mac Duff resigned. Akina was nonetheless demoted to secondary coach after Will Muschamp was hired as the new defensive coordinator. Following June Jones' resignation at HawaiĘ»i, Akina was considered to be one of the candidates for his replacement. In January 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 Gray, 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.
is DefCoach of
is CoDefCoach of
is OtherStaff of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software