Kevin Haslam (American football coach)

Kevin Haslam is a college sports administrator and former college football coach. He is an assistant athletic director at Arizona State University, and used to be athletic director at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, the second school in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history to have imposed the death penalty on one of its sports programs. Haslam took over as the athletic director after the resignation of the athletic director that oversaw the severe penalty.

Coaching career

Assistant coaching

Haslam got started in collegiate coaching as the offensive coordinator at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1994 to 1996.

Wayne State College

Haslam's first head coaching position was at Wayne State College in Nebraska. Haslam took over for the 1997 season and resigned after the conclusion of the 1999 season; Wayne State lost their final game, 71–30, to Northwestern Oklahoma. The Wayne State football had a record of 7–25 under his command.

University of Saint Mary

Haslam was the first head football coach for the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas, and he held that position for two seasons, from 2000 until he resigned 2001. The least successful football coach at the school, his record at St. Marys of 1–17 ranks him last in total wins and winning percentage. He also served as the school's athletic director during that same time period.

Eastern Arizona

Haslam resigned from Saint Mary's to become the head football coach at Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher, Arizona, a two-year college, from 2001 until the end of the 2004 season.

Athletics administration

MacMurray College

Haslam took over the position of athletic director at MacMurray College after the NCAA imposed the second-ever death penalty (under new criteria) on a collegiate athletic program. MacMurray's men's tennis team was banned from outside competition for two years through the 2006–07 academic year. The team also was banned from postseason competition for the 2007–08 and 2008–09 academic years.

Arizona State

In 2007, Haslam became the Assistant Athletic Director of Annual Giving at Arizona State University where he also completes several front-office activities.

Education

Haslam earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico and completed a Master of Science in education Wayne State College.