Ron Roberts (born October 9, 1967) is an

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coach who currently serves as

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Coaching career

Assistant coaching career

Roberts started his coaching career as the

at Houston High School in 1990. From Houston, Roberts served as head coach at Burroughs High School from 1994 to 1996 before taking his first college job at

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in 1997. From Greensboro he served as defensive coordinator at both

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(1998–2002) and

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(2003) before returning to the head coaching ranks at

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in 2004. In January 2005 Roberts resigned his position at Mt. Whitney to serve as

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After the 2017 season at Southeastern, Coach Roberts accepted a defensive coordinator job with the

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, his first coaching job at a

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level. Coach Roberts is the former defensive coordinator at Baylor University, where he led the #1 Scoring Defense in the Big 12 in 2021. At the conclusion of the 2022 season, Baylor head coach

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announced that Roberts had been relieved of his duties. Less than 2 weeks later, new

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head coach

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named Roberts the program's defensive coordinator.

Head coaching career

After the resignation of Rick Rhoades on January 12, 2007, Roberts was promoted from his position of defensive coordinator to head coach. Through the 2011 season, Delta State has won four

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championships and played in the Division II playoffs in four of his five years as head coach reaching the 2010 NCAA Division II Championship Game where they lost to Minnesota–Duluth 20–17. After a successful tenure at Delta State, Roberts became

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's fifteenth head coach on December 19, 2011. He finished his first season with the Lions with an overall record of five wins and six losses (5–6). On November 7, 2013, Roberts signed a three-year contract extension with the Lions. With their victory over

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on November 16, 2013, Southeastern Louisiana captured their first

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championship in program history.

Head coaching record

College

References

External links

Southeastern Louisiana profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Ron 1967 births Living people American football linebackers Auburn Tigers football coaches College of the Sequoias Giants football players Delta State Statesmen football coaches Greensboro Pride football coaches Southeastern Louisiana Lions football coaches UT Martin Skyhawks football players Texas State Bobcats football coaches Tusculum Pioneers football coaches High school football coaches in California High school football coaches in Tennessee Sportspeople from Visalia, California Players of American football from California