Kalen DeBoer

	Position: Offensive Coordinator
	Experience: Third Year
	Alma Mater: University of Sioux Falls, 1996

08/27/2012

Football opens season at Eastern Illinois

SIU leads all-time series, 40-15-1

08/02/2012

Dale Lennon unveils new helmets at Football Media Day

Salukis will switch to an all-black helmet in 2012.

04/13/2012

Offense roars to life in Football team's second scrimmage

Quarterbacks combined to complete 32-of-46 passes for 385 yards and seven TDs.

04/07/2012

Defense dominates first scrimmage of Spring Ball.

Saluki D produces seven turnovers.

11/07/2011

Football weekly press conference transcript

Salukis host Eastern Illinois at 2 p.m. on Saturday in BlackOut Cancer game.

Last updated on Aug. 3, 2012

Kalen DeBoer enters his third season as the offensive coordinator at SIU and he also serves as the position coach for the wide receivers.

DeBoer was hired on Feb. 5, 2010, after compiling a 67-3 (.957) record during five seasons as head coach at the University of Sioux Falls. He guided USF to three National Championships and was a three-time NAIA National Coach of the Year.

In his first season in Carbondale, the Saluki offense averaged 30.1 points and 378.2 yards of total offense per game behind a balanced attack. SIU ran for 189.5 yards per game and threw for 188.7 in the first year in DeBoer's system.

DeBoer's offense put up 508 yards of total offense in the final game of the 2010 season against Indiana State. That was the most yards gained in a game on the year and was one of five games SIU had with more than 400 yards of total offense. His offense had 34 plays that went for 20 yards or longer (eight rush, 26 pass) on the year.

In 2011, the Salukis finished third in the MVFC in total offense, averaging 377.8 yards per game. Jewel Hampton rushed for 1,121 yards -- the second tailback at SIU to surpass the 1,000-yard plateau (Deji Karim did it in 2009) in DeBoer's offense.

Prior to joining the Saluki coaching staff, DeBoer led one of the most dominant programs in the nation. In his five years as the head coach at Sioux Falls (2004-09), DeBoer won four Great Plains Athletic Conference Championships, 50-straight home games and 29-straight games overall over his last two seasons. That winning streak was the longest in the nation at any level in college football at the time.

His teams won back-to-back NAIA National Championships in 2008 and 2009, and adding in his 2006 national championship, DeBoer won as many National Championships as games he lost during his five-year tenure as USF's head coach.

He coached two NAIA National Player's of the Year in quarterbacks Lorenzo Brown (2009) and Chad Cavender (2007).

A graduate of USF, DeBoer played for the Cougars from 1993-96, where he was an All-American wide receiver. He set school records for receptions (234), receiving yards (2,400) and touchdown catches (33).

After his playing days were over, he became a student assistant for Sioux Falls under coach Bob Young in 1997. From 2000-04, he served as USF's offensive coordinator and succeeded Young as head coach in 2005. At the age of 32, he led Sioux Falls to the 2006 National Championship.

He and his wife, Nicole, have two daughters, Alexis and Avery.