ASSISTANT COACHES
BRANDON SHELBY CORNERBACKS
SEVENTH SEASON • Cornerbacks coach Brandon Shelby is entering his seventh season at Indiana. • Completed a Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship with the Houston Texans in June 2017.
PERSONAL
BIRTHDATE: March 24, 1981 HOMETOWN: Kansas City, Mo. FAMILY: Wife - Jennifer Son - Kaysen (newborn) HIGH SCHOOL: Rockhurst COLLEGE: Oklahoma, ‘04; ‘05
PLAYING EXPERIENCE OKLAHOMA 2001-04: Defensive Back
COACHING EXPERIENCE OKLAHOMA 2006: Defensive Assistant ARIZONA 2007: Graduate Assistant SAN DIEGO 2008: Defensive Backs PORTLAND STATE 2009: Secondary LOUISIANA-MONROE 2010: Cornerbacks INDIANA 2015: Secondary 2011-14, 16-: Cornerbacks
• Rashard Fant is the NCAA active career leader and IU’s all-time leader with 48 passes defended and 44 pass breakups in 38 career games. • In 2016, Fant collected second team All-Big Ten honors after he led the Big Ten in pass breakups (17, T-2nd nationally) and passes defended (20, 3rd nationally) for the second straight season. • Three times under Shelby a Hoosier has paced the B1G in both categories. Tim Bennett topped the nation with 20 PBUs and 21 passes defended en route to 2013 honorable mention all-conference recognition, and Fant added 22 and 23, respectively, in 2015. • Playing alongside Fant last year, true freshman A-Shon Riggins claimed honorable mention BTN.com All-Freshman accolades. Riggins shared sixth in league games only with 10 passes defended. • The 2016 Hoosiers ranked first nationally allowing 94.1 fewer passing yards per game. • Cornerbacks combined for 143 tackles, 118 solo, 7.5 tackles for loss, 20 pass breakups, one interception, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in 2014. • Bennett moved from safety during the 2013 offseason and also shared the top spot among conference defensive backs with 61 solo tackles. • In 2014, he led Indiana with 52 solo stops and nine pass breakups (T-6th in the Big Ten). Bennett closed out his career with 32 PBUs.
BOWL EXPERIENCE 2002 2003 2004 2005
Cotton Bowl......................................................................Oklahoma Rose Bowl........................................................................Oklahoma Sugar Bowl.......................................................................Oklahoma Orange Bowl.....................................................................Oklahoma
BOWL EXPERIENCE 2007 2015 2016
48
AS A PLAYER
AS A COACH
Fiesta Bowl.......................................................................Oklahoma New Era Pinstripe Bowl....................................................... Indiana Foster Farms Bowl................................................................ Indiana
BRANDON SHELBY • Tutored first-year starter Brian Williams in 2012. Williams made 58 tackles with a half-sack, one INT, one fumble recovery and eight pass breakups, which tied for the team lead. • Greg Heban started all 12 games in 2011 and led the team with two picks, shared the lead with six PBUs, finished third with 62 stops and added one sack, 1.5 TFLs and one fumble recovery. • Spent 2010 as cornerbacks coach at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. Robert Nelson, who is currently a member of the Houston Texans, finished with 55 tackles, two interceptions, seven pass breakups, five tackles for loss, one sack and one fumble recovery. • In 2009, Shelby coached the secondary at Portland State University and managed the defensive backs at the University of San Diego in 2008. • Mentored cornerback DeShawn Shead at Portland State. Shead is a member of the Seattle Seahawks. He signed as an undrafted free agent in 2012 and was a member of the 2013 Super Bowl champions. • San Diego posted a 9-2 mark and three of Shelby’s players earned all-conference honors. • Al-Rilwan Adeyemi was named Pioneer League Freshman Defensive Player of the Year after finishing the season with five interceptions, two of which he returned for touchdowns. • Began his coaching career at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, as a defensive assistant in 2006. The Sooners won the Big 12 Championship and went on to play in the Fiesta Bowl that season. • Shelby spent the 2007 season as a graduate assistant at the University of Arizona before moving on to San Diego. • Participated in the inaugural Future Coaches Academy in San Antonio in January 2007, a workshop held in conjunction with the NCAA, American Football Coaches Association, the Black Coaches Association and the National Football League. • Shelby was a standout defensive back at Oklahoma, where he participated in two BCS National Championship games and three straight BCS bowl games. • As a four-year letterman (2001-04), he earned both All-Big 12 honors and Academic All-Big 12 honors. In 2002, he tied a then Oklahoma record with four sacks for a defensive back. • Graduated from Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in business management in 2004 and a master’s degree in human relations in 2005. • Brandon and his wife, Jennifer, have one son, Kaysen (newborn).
49