Kevin Wilson

Kevin Reece Wilson (born October 23, 1961) is an American football coach and former player who is the head coach at the University of Tulsa.

In his second year, Indiana improved to 4-8 on the year with Wilson's team exhibiting an explosive offense, going from 80th nationally in pass offense to 19th and leading the Big Ten with 311.2 yards per game, in spite of losing the starting quarterback Tre Roberson in the season's second game.

He earned a degree in Education in 1984, and then became a graduate assistant for three years while working on a master's degree in Physical Education.

While at North Carolina Randy Walker was a Tar Heels assistant.

After playing for the North Carolina Tar Heels, he spent three seasons (1984–1986) as a graduate assistant coach while he worked on his master's degree.

In 1987, he became the offensive line coach at Winston-Salem State University.

Wilson was the offensive coordinator for the 1988 season for the North Carolina A&T Aggies.

In 1989, he became the head coach and athletic director of Fred T. Foard High School in Newton, North Carolina, near his hometown of Maiden, where the Tigers went 0–10.

"[Wilson] was dealt a very ugly hand. There was very little talent and probably less commitment."

Considering the environment in which Wilson was raised, it's no surprise he grew frustrated quickly that so many players at Fred T. Foard didn't share his passion for football.

When Walker left Northwestern to become head coach at Miami University in 1990, Wilson became his assistant there.

Following one year coaching on the high school level, Wilson returned to college coaching for the Miami University RedHawks in 1990, under head coach Randy Walker, and coached there as offensive line coach, quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator until 1998.

Mallory, the son of former Indiana head coach Bill Mallory, was Indiana's defensive backs coach from 1994–1996.

Wilson also hired Rod Smith from Michigan and Kevin Johns from Northwestern to be co-offensive coordinators.

When Walker moved to Northwestern University Wilson went with him, serving as the offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach, and assistant head coach, from 1999 to 2001.

Wilson's power-spread offense led the Wildcats to a Big Ten Conference co-championship in 2000 and led conference in rushing for the first time in 54 years.

After spending 19 seasons under the tutelage of his mentor Walker (four as a player at North Carolina, three as a graduate assistant there, nine as a coach at Miami, and three as a coach at Northwestern), Wilson left his long-time mentor to become the running game coordinator and the offensive line coach at Oklahoma in 2002.

Wilson caught Stoops' attention after Wilson adopted "Leach-style" passing offense that was then morphed into the spread run game.

In December 2005, Wilson was named the offensive coordinator for the Sooners prior to the 2006 season, replacing Chuck Long who left to become the head coach at San Diego State.

Oklahoma named James Patton to replace Wilson as offensive line coach, Patton served under Wilson at both Northwestern and Miami, and Wilson recommended Patton to Sooners' head coach Bob Stoops.

Wilson took over a Hoosiers team that had finished 10th or 11th in the Big Ten in each of the previous three seasons and had not been to a bowl since losing to Oklahoma State in the 2007 Insight Bowl.

Under Wilson's first year, the Hoosiers had a 1–11 record.

Indiana received an invitation to play in the Pinstripe Bowl, their first bowl game since 2007.

After the season ended, Wilson signed a 6-year, $15.3 million contract extension that ran through 2021.

In 2008, Wilson won the Broyles Award, which is given to the top assistant in college football annually.

He was also named the "FootballScoop Offensive Coordinator of the Year".

Indiana athletic director Fred Glass announced the dismissal of Bill Lynch and the rest of the coaching staff on November 28, 2010, following a third straight season with only one conference victory.

Glass announced the hiring of Wilson on December 7, giving Wilson his first collegiate head coaching position.

Just thirteen days later Wilson hired New Mexico defensive coordinator Doug Mallory and Nebraska linebackers coach Mike Ekeler (also LBs) as co-defensive coordinators.

Wilson was head coach at Indiana University from 2011 to 2016, and offensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma from 2002 to 2010.

Wilson played offensive line and linebacker at Maiden High School in Maiden, North Carolina.

He was all-conference for two seasons and for his senior season was named to the Charlotte Observer All-Piedmont team.

He went on to play center and guard for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels football team as a walk-on.

After two seasons as a walk-on he earned a scholarship.

In 2015, Indiana finished the regular season with a 6-6 record and showed a much more competitive level of play in the Big Ten.

Wilson resigned from Indiana on December 1, 2016, after multiple internal investigations into mistreatment of players.

He was the offensive coordinator at Ohio State University from 2017 to 2022.

Ohio State announced January 10, 2017 that Wilson had been hired as the offensive coordinator and tight ends coach under head coach Urban Meyer.

In the 2017 season, Wilson assisted the Buckeyes to a 12-2 season which included a Big Ten Championship victory over Wisconsin and a win over the University of Southern California in the Cotton Bowl Classic.

In the 2018 season, Wilson worked as Co-Offensive Coordinator with Ryan Day.