MONROE, La.?Just one day after announcing the highest ranked
recruiting class in school history, ULM football head coach Charlie Weatherbie
completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Darrell Perkins to coach the
Warhawks secondary.
The appointment is pending the approval of the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors.
“We are excited to welcome Coach Perkins to our coaching
staff,” Weatherbie said. “He is going to
be a great role model for our student-athletes and is going to blend in nicely with
the rest of our coaches.”
Perkins joins ULM after one
season as the defensive coordinator at Charleston
Southern, a Division I-AA school competing in the Big South Conference. Under
his guidance, the Buccaneers allowed just 202.3 yards through the air last
year.
“I am very excited to be a part of the great coaching staff
here at ULM,”
Perkins said. “Coach Weatherbie is a
class act and a great football coach.
The program is really heading in the right direction and this is a great
time for ULM
football.”
Last year was his second stint at Charleston Southern after serving for one season as the
special teams and linebackers coach at Northern Colorado.
His first tenure with the Buccaneers had him coaching the secondary and special
teams from 2004-05. Charleston
Southern finished second in the nation in pass defense allowing just 131 yards
per game in 2004. Tavares Shorter received
First Team All-Conference honors under Perkins tutelage that season.
He began his coaching career as a
graduate assistant at Purdue from 2000-02, where he helped lead the
Boilermakers to their first Rose Bowl appearance in 33 years.
After his time in West
Lafayette, Ind., Perkins coached
for two seasons as the secondary and special teams coach at Ferris State
University. Under his
guidance, the Bulldogs led the GLIAC in pass defense in 2002 allowing just
196.1 yards per game and had pair of First Team All-Conference players.
As
a player, Perkins was a two-year starter at running back at Wyoming leading the Cowboys to back-to-back
WAC championships in 1987 and 1988 going a perfect 16-0.
During
his playing and coaching career, Perkins participated in three bowl games and
won three conference championships.
Before he entered the coaching profession, Perkins owned and operated a
Chick-fil-A restaurant in Fort Collins, Colo. and was the general manager of Bennigan's in Denver, Colo.
