Eastern Michigan Athletics
Herb Haygood Named EMU Football Assistant Coach
3/11/2014 1:51:00 PM | Football, E-Gridiron Group
Haygood rounds out the coaching staff as the wide receivers coach
YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) — Herb Haygood, the associate director of player personnel for the Indiana University football team for the past year, has been named an assistant football coach at Eastern Michigan University, Head Coach Chris Creighton announced today, March 11. He will serve as the team's wide receivers coach.
"Coach Haygood is going to make our program better," said Creighton. "He got into coaching after his professional career for all the right reasons. He has lived in Michigan for the majority of his adult life, he is an outstanding recruiter and has been itching to get back on the field coaching the position he loves."
At Indiana, Haygood helped serve as the point person on all of the Hoosiers' recruiting efforts, as well as coordinating camps and high school coaches clinics.
Haygood served as an offensive intern at Mid-American Conference foe Miami University in 2011 and 2012, assisting with the RedHawks' wide receivers.
He coached wide receivers and special teams from 2007-10 at Saginaw Valley State University. In 2006-07, Haygood was a wide receivers and special teams coach at Olivet College.
Haygood worked as an intern and student assistant strength and conditioning coach at his alma mater, Michigan State University, in 2005. An outstanding receiver at Michigan State, Haygood won four varsity letters for the Spartans from 1997-2001 and was elected team captain his senior year. He also was an All-American kick returner for the Spartans.
As a professional athlete, Haygood was drafted in the fifth round of the 2002 National Football League draft by the Denver Broncos. He was picked up later by the Indianapolis Colts. In 2004, Haygood played for Scottish Claymore in NFL Europe, the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes. He spent the 2006 season with the Tampa Bay Storm in the Arena Football League.
In 2010, Haygood earned a Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship with the Detroit Lions. The 2007 graduate of MSU is married to the former Emily Weaver.
The Herb Haygood File
Name: Herbert Donta "Herb" Haygood
High School: Sarasota H.S. - Sarasota, Fla.
College: Michigan State University - Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology - 2007
Family: Wife-Emily
Coaching/Playing Experience
Year School Position
2013-14 Indiana University Associate Director of Player Personnel
2011-12 Miami University Offensive Intern
2007-10 Saginaw Valley State University Assistant Coach/Wide receivers/Special teams
2006-07 Olivet College Assistant Coach/Wide receivers/Special teams
2005 Michigan State University Student Assistant Strength Coach
2004 NFL's Kansas City Chiefs Player
2003 NFL's Indianapolis Colts Player
2002 NFL's Denver Broncos Player
1997-2001 Michigan State University Student-athlete
"Coach Haygood is going to make our program better," said Creighton. "He got into coaching after his professional career for all the right reasons. He has lived in Michigan for the majority of his adult life, he is an outstanding recruiter and has been itching to get back on the field coaching the position he loves."
At Indiana, Haygood helped serve as the point person on all of the Hoosiers' recruiting efforts, as well as coordinating camps and high school coaches clinics.
Haygood served as an offensive intern at Mid-American Conference foe Miami University in 2011 and 2012, assisting with the RedHawks' wide receivers.
He coached wide receivers and special teams from 2007-10 at Saginaw Valley State University. In 2006-07, Haygood was a wide receivers and special teams coach at Olivet College.
Haygood worked as an intern and student assistant strength and conditioning coach at his alma mater, Michigan State University, in 2005. An outstanding receiver at Michigan State, Haygood won four varsity letters for the Spartans from 1997-2001 and was elected team captain his senior year. He also was an All-American kick returner for the Spartans.
As a professional athlete, Haygood was drafted in the fifth round of the 2002 National Football League draft by the Denver Broncos. He was picked up later by the Indianapolis Colts. In 2004, Haygood played for Scottish Claymore in NFL Europe, the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes. He spent the 2006 season with the Tampa Bay Storm in the Arena Football League.
In 2010, Haygood earned a Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship with the Detroit Lions. The 2007 graduate of MSU is married to the former Emily Weaver.
The Herb Haygood File
Name: Herbert Donta "Herb" Haygood
High School: Sarasota H.S. - Sarasota, Fla.
College: Michigan State University - Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology - 2007
Family: Wife-Emily
Coaching/Playing Experience
Year School Position
2013-14 Indiana University Associate Director of Player Personnel
2011-12 Miami University Offensive Intern
2007-10 Saginaw Valley State University Assistant Coach/Wide receivers/Special teams
2006-07 Olivet College Assistant Coach/Wide receivers/Special teams
2005 Michigan State University Student Assistant Strength Coach
2004 NFL's Kansas City Chiefs Player
2003 NFL's Indianapolis Colts Player
2002 NFL's Denver Broncos Player
1997-2001 Michigan State University Student-athlete
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