Former NFL player and coach Tim Hauck joined the UNLV football staff as defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach in 2013. Under Hauck, the Rebels jumped from 90th to 36th in pass efficiency defense and from 68th to 41st in passing yards allowed. The defense posted 55 pass breakups, including 18 by Kenneth Penny, which ranked second in the nation.
Before joining the Rebels, Hauck spent the 2012 season in the NFL as an assistant coach for the Cleveland Browns, overseeing the defensive backs. He spent the 2009-10 seasons as assistant secondary coach for the Tennessee Titans. Prior to joining the Titans, he coached safeties at UCLA for a defense that ranked second in the Pac-10 Conference in pass defense in 2008. Before that, he spent four years at his alma mater, the University of Montana, overseeing the entire secondary in 2007 after three years working with the safeties from 2004-2006.
The younger brother of Bobby Hauck, Tim played safety in the NFL for 13 seasons, retiring in 2002. He originally signed with the New England Patriots as a free agent in 1990 and played for Green Bay, Seattle, Denver, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
A two-time First Team All-American (1988-89), Hauck played safety at Montana for three seasons after originally starting his college career at Pacific University in Oregon. He was voted the Big Sky Conference's defensive MVP as both a junior and a senior.
He earned his bachelor's degree in business education from UM in 1990.
TIM HAUCK'S COACHING EXPERIENCE
2013-SA UNLV -- defensive coordinator, cornerbacks
2012 Cleveland Browns (NFL) -- defensive backs
2009-10 Tennessee Titans (NFL) -- assistant secondary
2008 UCLA -- safeties
2007 Montana -- secondary
2004-06 Montana -- safeties
