Brandon Kennedy -- Assistant Football Coach, (Offensive Backs), Arkansas War Cats (WFL)

(as of football season 2010) Brandon played for the Arkansas War Cats of the World Football League in 2008 then became their offensive coordinator in 2009. He became the offensive backs coach for 2010. He played fullback at Arkansas from 2002-05.

Bill Keopple -- Head Coach, Southern Arkansas University Muleriders

(as of football season 2011) Bill Keopple was introduced as the 19th head football coach at Southern Arkansas University on December 12, 2008. He served the previous six years as head coach at Texarkana Arkansas High School.
Keopple brings 25 years of coaching experience to the Muleriders, including 18 as an assistant on the collegiate level with stops at Tulsa, Arkansas, Boise State and Central Arkansas.
Keopple led his 2008 Arkansas High squad to a 5-7 record and the second round of the 6A state playoffs. His teams were 44-26-1 in six years, advancing to the state playoffs the last five and winning consecutive state championships in 2006 and 2007. Keopple's 2005 and 2006 Razorback teams were 6A South Conference champions. He was honored in 2006 as the 6A State Farm Coach of the Year, as well as 6A Outstanding Coach by the National Football Foundation in both 2006 and 2007, and was selected to serve on the high school football All-Star coaching staffs in 2004 and 2007.
Before taking over the reins at Texarkana, Keopple returned to coaching in 2002 after a two-year hiatus by joining former Arkansas defensive coordinator Keith Burns' staff at Tulsa. He spent that season coaching the defensive line and serving as recruiting coordinator for the Hurricane.
Prior to spending two years in private business, Keopple served as an assistant under Houston Nutt at Arkansas in 1998 and 1999, and was with Nutt at Boise State in 1997, coaching the defensive line at both schools.
Keopple went to Boise State from Newport High School where he was head coach and athletic director in 1996. He guided the Greyhounds to the state playoffs in an 8-3 season, giving him an overall mark of 52-29-1 in his seven years on the high school level.
Graduating with a B.S.E. in 1982 and an M.S.E. in 1986 from Central Arkansas, Keopple began his coaching career there in 1982 as a graduate assistant working with the offensive line. He spent 14 years with the Bears, tutoring the offensive line the entire time and serving as offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator from 1990-1995. During his tenure at UCA, the Bears won three NAIA national championships and 10 consecutive conference championships from 1983-1992 in the now defunct Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC).
A native of Little Rock, Keopple is the son of Hall of Fame high school coach C.W. Keopple. A 1976 graduate of Parkview High School, he played on the 1974 and 1976 state championship teams and was an all-state selection his senior season.
During his playing days at Central Arkansas, Keopple was a member of two conference championship teams and was an All-AIC pick in 1980.

Matt Kerr -- Head Men's Track & Field Coach, Boston College University Eagles

(as of track & field seasons 2010-11) Matt Kerr, named head men's coach in February 2008, came to BC after spending three seasons as an assistant coach for the men's and women's cross country and track and field teams at Wake Forest.
Prior to his three years of coaching experience, Kerr compiled a long list of track experience and achievements. Most recently, he was the 2007 Canadian steeplechase champion. He also qualified in that same event for the World Track and Field Championships in 2005 and 2003 as a member of Team Canada.
While earning his Master's in Business Administration from the University of Wollongong in Wollongong, Australia, Kerr was a five-time Australian University Games Champion. He earned his postgraduate degree in 2002. As an undergraduate at the track powerhouse University of Arkansas, Kerr was the individual NCAA champion in the steeplechase in 1998 and 1999. He received a degree in Business Administration in 2000.

Monte Kiffin -- Assistant Head Coach, University of Southern Cal Trojans

(as of football season 2011) Monte Kiffin was named defensive coordinator at USC in January 2010. He was named to the same job at Tennesse on December 31, 2008, after 26 brilliant seasons in the NFL, the last 13 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Kiffin was the longest tenured defensive coordinator in the NFL and, as developer of the Tampa Cover 2 defense, is generally considered one of the modern era's best defensive minds.
Monte Kiffin was a catalyst for Tampa Bay's 2002 Super Bowl championship and coached units that ranked among the NFL's top 10 in both total defense and points allowed in 11 of his 13 Buccaneer seasons.
His Super Bowl champion unit became the first since the 1985 Chicago Bears to lead the league in total defense (252.8 ypg), fewest points allowed (196) and total interceptions (31). Kiffin's crew continued its impressive play in the 2002 postseason, allowing just 16 points in victories over San Francisco and Philadelphia, before turning it up a notch in Super Bowl XXXVII. During the Buccaneers' 48-21 win over Oakland, Tampa Bay recorded a Super Bowl-record five interceptions, including three picks that were returned for touchdowns (also a Super Bowl record). Kiffin's charges added five sacks and allowed only 19 total rushing yards in capping one of the most dominating defensive performances in Super Bowl history.
A native of Lexington, Neb., Kiffin was his state's High School Athlete of the Year in 1958. Then after playing collegiately for the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1959-63 as both an offensive and defensive tackle, Kiffin sat out one season with a knee injury before taking a turn at defensive end for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.
He then began his coaching career in 1966 at his alma mater under a pair of legends in Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne. Kiffin first helped command the Big Red defense to consecutive national titles in 1970 and 1971. When Osborne became Nebraska's head coach in 1973, Kiffin was named defensive coordinator. Kiffin moved to Arkansas as defensive coordinator under Lou Holtz from 1977-79, including one season as assistant head coach. The Razorbacks led the nation in scoring defense in 1977.
Kiffin was head coach at North Carolina State from 1980-82, compiling a 16-17 record that included winning seasons in 1981 and 1982.
From there, it was on to the professional ranks, including stops with the Green Bay Packers under Bart Starr in 1983, the Buffalo Bills from 1984-85, the Minnesota Vikings from 1986-89 and the New York Jets in 1990. Kiffin then returned to the Vikings, first in his initial professional role as defensive coordinator in 1991 before spending the 1992-94 seasons as inside linebackers coach. The 1995 campaign as defensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints was Kiffin's last before moving to Tampa Bay.

Jud Kindle -- Head Baseball Coach, Sedalia Bombers (MINK summer league)

(as of baseball season 2011) Jud Kindle became the head coach of the Sedalia Bombers (MINK) in 2009. He spent the 2008 season as the head coach for the Chillicothe Mudcats of the MINK summer league and led the team to a 32-17 record. He spent the three previous years as a volunteer assistant coach at Missouri State University (2005-07). He spent the 2004 season playing for Missouri State after playing at Arkansas in 2003. Jud was also the manager (06-07) for the Sedalia Travelers, an American Legion team in Sedalia, Missouri.

Joe Kleine -- Assistant Men's Basketball Coach, UALR Trojans

(as of basketball season 2010-11) Joe Kleine was named an assistant basketball coach at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock on March 6, 2007. Kleine was a two-time All-Southwest Conference and USBWA All-District selection at the University of Arkansas, where he averaged 18.1 points and 8.3 rebounds per game over his three-year career. Kleine transferred to Arkansas from Notre Dame, and was named 1982-83 Southwest Conference Newcomer of the Year in his first season with the Razorbacks after sitting out a year. As a junior, his scoring average (18.2 ppg) was better than that of conference-foe Hakeem Olajuwon, then a senior at Houston. As a senior, Kleine averaged 22.1 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. He currently ranks sixth on Arkansas' all-time scoring list with 1,753 career points.
While at Arkansas, Kleine earned a spot on the 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team which won a gold medal in Los Angeles, Calif. The 1984 team was coached by Bobby Knight and included teammates Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Steve Alford.
Upon graduating from Arkansas with a business degree, Kleine was selected with the No. 6 overall pick of the 1985 National Basketball Association Draft by the Sacramento Kings. He spent three seasons with the Kings, averaging career highs of 9.8 points and 7.1 rebounds per game during the 1987-88 season. He was traded to the Boston Celtics on Feb. 23, 1989 and spent the next four-plus seasons with the Celtics.
Kleine became a free agent in 1993 and signed with Phoenix, starting 42 games in his second season to help the Suns to the 1994-95 Pacific Division title. After stops with the Los Angeles Lakers and New Jersey Nets, Kleine signed with Chicago prior to the 1997-98 campaign and earned a championship ring as the Bulls won the 1998 NBA title.
He ended his professional career with a seven game stint with the Portland Trailblazers during the 1999-00 season. Over the course of his 15-year career, Kleine appeared in 49 playoff games and 965 regular season games, scoring 4,666 points (4.8 per game) and grabbing 3,991 rebounds (4.1 per game). He shot 45.3 percent from the field and 79.4 percent from the free throw line for his career, and ranked sixth in the NBA in free-throw shooting during the 1988-89 season at 88.2 percent (134-of-152).
Kleine gained coaching experience in 2004 as an assistant coach for the USA South Team at the Olympic Festival in Colorado Springs, as well as the 2004 18-and-under USA vs. Europe Hoop Summit in San Antonio, Texas. In addition, he has worked as a volunteer coach with AAU Basketball and Catholic High School in Little Rock.

Dave Kuzara -- Head Women's Gymnastics Coach, Western Michigan University Broncos

(as of school year 2011-12) Dave Kuzara was named the sixth head coach of the Bronco gymnastics program on September 30, 2009. Kuzara brings various levels of coaching experience to WMU, having previously served as an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas, West Virginia University and the University of Michigan. Kuzara was also the head coach at University of Massachusetts for 10 seasons before UMass dropped the sport in 2002.
Most recently, Kuzara was an assistant at the University of Arkansas, where he helped the Razorbacks to a program-best fifth place finish at the 2009 NCAA Championships. In 2008, Arkansas placed 10th at the NCAA Championships. Primarily in charge of coaching and developing floor exercise routines, the Razorback floor team was ranked in the top five all season and as high as No. 1 in 2009. Kuzara worked with three All-Americans on the floor during his time at Arkansas and was responsible for recruiting activities in Region 5 (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky).
Prior to his three seasons at Arkansas, he was an assistant at West Virginia from 2003-2006, helping the Mountaineers to the 2004 EAGL team title and three NCAA Regional appearances. Primarily an uneven bars coach at West Virginia, Kuzara's bar workers only counted one fall during the entire 2006 season.
Kuzara has 10 years of head coaching experience at the University of Massachusetts where he built a 100-68 career record. His UMass teams won back-to-back Atlantic 10 team titles (1996, 1997) and had five runner-up finishes during his tenure. He qualified individuals to NCAA Nationals on four different occasions and his teams qualified to the NCAA Regionals nine out of 10 years.
Kuzara also served as an assistant coach at Michigan from 1991-93, where he helped the Wolverines to two Big Ten titles (1992, 1993) and its first-ever NCAA Championship appearance in 1993. Kuzara was named 1992 NCAA Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year. He helped oversee the development of Beth Wymer, who became U-M's first national champion on the uneven bars in the '93 season.
From 1980-1991, Kuzara worked as a private club gymnastics coach.
Kuzara obtained a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1980. He started his undergrad coursework at Western Michigan, where he attended for one year.

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