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for three seasons before being promoted to co-defensive coordinator under
head coach Mark Mangino.
During Doeren’s time at Kansas, the Jayhawks ended a seven-year bowl
drought, earning bids to the 2003 Tangerine Bowl and the 2005 Ft. Worth
Bowl. The opponent in that first bowl appearance was a Philip Rivers-led NC
State team.
In 2000 and 2001, Doeren coached the secondary at NCAA Division I-AA
(now Football Championship Subdivision) powerhouse Montana, also serving
as the Grizzlies’ recruiting coordinator for one year. Montana advanced to
the the I-AA national championship game in 2000, losing by two points, but
returned to win the national title the following season. The Grizzlies posted
a 28-3 record and won two Big Sky Conference championships in his two
years with the program and he coached five All-Americans, four All-Big Sky
performers and two league defensive MVPs.
The Doeren family: Jacoby, Sara, Connor, Dave and Luke.
streak with 17 straight wins versus MAC opponents. The Huskies never lost
a home game during his tenure in DeKalb, winning a dozen home contests
in his two seasons to extend the nation’s longest home winning streak to 21
games. The Huskies’ Academic Progress Rate (APR) ranked among the top
five nationally as well.
Prior to his stint in DeKalb, Doeren spent five seasons in the Big Ten at Wisconsin,
where he served as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.
During Doeren’s time in Madison, the Badgers posted a 49-15 overall mark
and played in five bowl games, including the Rose Bowl.
For his first two seasons in Madison, he served as co-defensive coordinator/
recruiting coordinator/linebackers coach and in 2008, was named the primary
defensive coordinator.
Doeren arrived at Wisconsin after four seasons (2002-05) at the University
of Kansas, where he served as linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator
Doeren grew up right outside of Kansas City. When he left for college at
Drake University in Des
Moines, Iowa, his goals
were to play football,
earn a pre-med degree,
go to med school and become
an orthopedic doctor.
He accomplished the
first two.
He lettered at tight end
for the Bulldogs, catching
19 catches for 237
yards for his career. He
majored in pre-medical
biology, earning Academic
All-American as a
senior. He took the Medical
College Admission
Test (MCAT). His plans
for the future changed,
however, during the summer
between his junior
and senior years when his
former coach at Bishop Miege High School asked him to lead seven-on-seven
drills.
At that moment, Doeren decided he wanted to be a coach
and pursued that goal with a relentlessness that never wavered.
Instead of heading to med school, he landed his first
coaching job in 1994, right in Kansas at Shawnee Mission
High School. His collegiate coaching career began just a
year later, when he was named an assistant coach at Drake,
leading the linebackers from 1995-97 before adding defensive
coordinator chores in 1997. He also earned his master’s
degree from Drake in educational leadership.
Doeren got his first taste of a bowl experience as a defensive
graduate assistant at the University of Southern California.
During his stint with the Trojans, he began work on
his Ph.D.
Doeren met his wife Sara while he was coaching at Drake
and she was a nursing student. The couple has three sons:
Jacob (15), Luke (13) and Connor (8).
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