Darin Hinshaw

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Darin Clifford Hinshaw (born June 6, 1972) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is currently the offensive coordinator at the University of Central Florida (UCF).

Prior to UCF, he was the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB).

He played college football at UCF, where he finished his career as the program's leader in career passing yards and touchdowns.

Hinshaw was initially recruited by Florida by Galen Hall, but committed to UCF after Hall's successor Steve Spurrier recruited Hinshaw's high school quarterback rival to play for the Gators.

At UCF, he set multiple career program records in both passing yards and touchdowns, many that have since been broken.

He was also a member of the school's men's basketball team for the 1993–94 season when they made the NCAA Tournament.

After going undrafted in the 1995 NFL Draft, Hinshaw joined the Cleveland Browns, however he was only with the team for their four-day Mini-camp.

Before playing for the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League (AFL) for two seasons in 1995, he briefly played for a number of CFL expansion teams competing for an active roster spot.

He also had stints with the Granite State Warriors (Spring League) and the AFL's Nashville Kats.

After playcalling for Granite State for a season before retiring from professional football, Hinshaw decided to pursue coaching.

Hinshaw returned to his alma mater UCF in 1999 as a graduate assistant.

UCF promoted him to quarterbacks coach in 2000 working with Coach Mike Kruczek and Gene Chizik.

Hinshaw was soon hired at Middle Tennessee in 2001.

At the time, he was the youngest offensive coordinator in D1 football.

During his time coaching, the Blue Raiders finished as the 2001 Sun Belt Champion.

In 2001, the Blue Raiders had two of the top five rushers in the SBC along with the top overall rushing attack.

He coached two record breaking running backs Dwone Hicks, ReShard Lee, and Kendall Newson was drafted in the NFL.

In 2002, the Blue Raiders had the nation's No. 21 ranked rushing offense, a 1,000-yard rusher, and two of the top eight rushers in the SBC.

In 2003, the Blue Raider offense went down as the highest scoring unit in the Sun Belt Conference at 27.7 points a contest, including four games of 35 points or more.

He left Middle Tennessee to accept the offensive coordinator position at Georgia Southern in 2006, where he spent one season as the head of the Eagles offense.

He helped transition first time head coach Brian VanGorder to take Georgia Southern's Triple option and transition it to a up-tempo offense.

Travis Clark set the single-season passing yards record at Georgia Southern that season, which still holds the third-all time spot with 1,808 yards.

Jayson Foster set numerous records as all purpose Utility player.

Hinshaw was named the wide receivers coach and senior offensive assistant at Memphis in 2007.

Under his guidance he helped mentor Duke Calhoun and Carlos Singleton who both set multiple records at Memphis.

He joined the coaching staff at Tennessee in 2010 as a offensive assistant and quarterbacks coach under first-year head coach Derek Dooley.

Dooley, Jim Chaney, and Hinshaw took a pro-style offense and transitioned it to an up-tempo offense.

He helped mentor both Matt Simms and Tyler Bray to combined for 3,309 yards passing and 26 touchdowns in 2010.

Bray earning SEC freshmen honors three times.

In 2011, Rivals.com named him a Top 10 recruiter.

Hinshaw helped direct and improve the Tennessee offense to 5,711 yards in 2012, the second-most in school history.

In 2012, he was elevated to recruiting coordinator, and wide receivers coach.

He helped direct and improve the 2012 Tennessee offense to 5,711 yards, second most in school history.

In 2012, Coach Dooley was fired at the end of the 2012 season and Hinshaw was not retained on the staff.

Hinshaw recruited and coached receivers Cordarrelle Patterson and Justin Hunter, both had breakout years and would declare for the 2013 NFL Draft, Patterson selected 29th and Hunter 34th overall, respectively.

Hinshaw was hired as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Cincinnati in 2013 on the staff of another head coach in its first season with their program, Tommy Tuberville.

Hinshaw, along with Eddie Gran, developed an up-tempo split-spread offense.

Hinshaw frequently called plays even though he wasn't the official offensive coordinator.

Although he was paid similarly to Gran, Hinshaw's known for refusing to take credit and preferring to work behind the scenes.