CCC names Darian Dulin as head football coach

Darian Dulin, the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator for the past three seasons at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, has agreed to take the head football coach position at Coffeyville Community College. Dulin replaces former head coach Jeff Leiker. Leiker assumed the athletic director's position at Coffeyville in November after serving as head coach of the Red Ravens the past seven seasons.

Dulin, who spent the 2004 season as the defensive coordinator at Butler Community College, returned to the Tarleton staff in 2005 after spending four years in Stephenville prior to his one-year hiatus.

Tarleton State is a NCAA Division II school playing in the Lone Star Conference. The Texans finished the 2007 season with a 9-2 overall record.

In 2006, the Tarleton defense ranked second in the Lone Star Conference in scoring defense, allowing just 18.1 points per game.  Tarleton was the number one rushing defense, allowing just 90.5 yards per game.

In 2005, Tarleton was number two in scoring defense and number one in pass defense efficiency.

In 2004, his defense finished the regular season number one in the Jayhawk Conference for total defense. Butler’s defense also led the NJCAA in scoring defense, sacks and passing efficiency defense.

Before leaving for his one season at Butler, Dulin coached the defensive backs and secondary at Tarleton from 2000 through 2003.

A former Academic All-American at both the junior and senior college levels, Dulin came to Tarleton after serving two years at Sam Houston State University, first as a defensive assistant and then as secondary coach.

Prior to his coaching at SHSU, Dulin worked in 1997 as a graduate assistant coach at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. He served as defensive back and special teams coach, while also helping with recruiting efforts and organizing the off-season strength and conditioning program.

From January to July in 1998, Dulin was a math specialist and adjunct math instructor at Cowley County Community College in Arkansas City, Kan.

Dulin finished his collegiate playing career at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan., where he was named Defensive Most Valuable Player and served as defensive captain for the Moundbuilders team that earned a win in the Wheat Bowl in 1996.

Dulin was the recipient of Southwestern’s Dixon Minority Full Tuition Academic Scholarship and named American Chemical Society Minority Scholar. Before going to Southwestern, Dulin achieved Academic All-America status at Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kan., where he carried a 4.0 grade point average and was a Butler Scholar Athlete of the Year nominee.

A native of Lawrence, Kan., Dulin played on three state championship teams during a string of five consecutive years that Lawrence High School won the state title.

Dulin holds bachelor’s degrees in math and chemistry from Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan., and he earned a master’s degree of education in physical education from Tarleton.