Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | UMass |
Conference | Independent |
Record | 48–44 |
Biographical details | |
Born | Spencer, Massachusetts, U.S. | July 31, 1955
Playing career | |
Football | |
1973–1976 | Norwich |
Position(s) | Fullback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1977–1981 | Hartford HS (VT) (backfield) |
1982 | Dartmouth (GA) |
1983 | Mansfield (DC) |
1984–1986 | Dartmouth (DB) |
1987–1988 | Yale (DB) |
1989–1992 | Yale (DC/DB) |
1993–1995 | Plymouth State |
1996–1997 | Brown (DC) |
1998–1999 | UMass (DC) |
2000–2003 | Northeastern |
2004–2008 | UMass |
2009–2010 | Maryland (DC/CB) |
2011–2012 | Connecticut (DC/CB) |
2013–2015 | Boston College (DC/LB) |
2016–2020 | Michigan (DC) |
2021 | Arizona (DC) |
2022–present | UMass |
Baseball | |
1977–1978 | Hartford HS (VT) (assistant) |
1979–1981 | Hartford HS (VT) |
1988 | Yale (JV) |
1992 | Yale (interim HC) |
Basketball | |
1977–1981 | Hartford HS (VT) (assistant) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 100–70 (college football) 26–10 (college baseball) |
Bowls | 0–1 |
Tournaments | Football 1–2 (NCAA D-III playoffs) 4–3 (NCAA D-I-AA/FCS playoffs) Baseball 1–2 (NCAA D-I) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 2 FFC (1994–1995) 1 A-10 (2002) 2 CAA (2006–2007) Baseball 1 EIBL (1992) | |
Awards | |
Football 3× AFCA Region I COY (1994, 2002, 2006) 3× Freedom Conference COY (1993–1995) 2× Atlantic 10 COY (2002, 2006) | |
Donald A. Brown Jr.[1] (born July 31, 1955) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), a position he held from 2004 to 2008 and resumed prior to the 2022 season. In between his two stints as UMass, Brown was the defensive coordinator at the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Connecticut, Boston College, the University of Michigan, and the University of Arizona. He served as the head football coach at Plymouth State University from 1993 to 1995 and Northeastern University from 2000 to 2003. Brown was also the interim head baseball coach at Yale University in 1992, tallying a mark of 26–10.