Eastern Michigan Athletics
Football
Haygood, Herb
vs
Louisiana
Sep 20 (Sat)
3:30 p.m.
Herb Haygood
- Title:
- Assistant Coach/Wide Receivers
- Email:
- hhaygood@emich.edu
- Phone:
- 734.487.2160
Entering his fifth year at EMU is Herb Haygood, who came to Ypsilanti after spending a year at Indiana University. Haygood serves as the team’s wide receivers coach.
The receiving corps were busy in 2017, as the group combined to hauled in 202 balls for 2,635 yards and 20 scores. Senior wide receiver Sergio Bailey II became the first EMU offensive player since Eric Deslauriers in 2006 to earn a first team All-MAC selection.
Bailey was Haygood’s top receiving threat, posting 54 catches for 878 yards and nine scores. The nine TDs were the third-most in an EMU single-season while the 54 grabs ranked eighth-best. Nationally, Bailey finished 19th in receiving touchdowns, 40th in receiving yards, and 79th in receptions per game.
EMU’s offense made a splash in 2016 en route to its first bowl appearance in 29 years, as the Eagles ranked 35th in the FBS in total offense at 455.2 yards per game. The team shattered the school record for total offense with 5,917 yards, breaking the previous record of 5,010. Other notable offensive highlights for the Eagles this past season include ranking 16th nationally in third down conversions, 18th in passing offense, 21st in red zone offense, and 25th in first down offense.
Bailey II earned Third Team All-MAC honors after leading the squad with 60 receptions for 868 yards and seven touchdowns.
During the 2015 campaign, EMU finished the year with 39 touchdowns, a mark that tied for the fifth-most in a single-season during the squad’s 124-year history, while its 4,560 yards of total offense was also the fifth most. Through the air, EMU wide receivers combined for 2,666 yards, ranking seventh in program single-season annals. EMU’s passing attack spread the wealth with seven different receivers having 20-or-more receptions, Eastern Michigan was one of just three schools nationally to accomplish that feat.
In his first year at EMU, Haygood’s youthful receiving corps caught 107 passes and seven touchdowns. Individually, junior Dustin Creel had career days against Ball State, Nov. 22. Creel finished with career bests in catches (14) and receiving yards (152), Entering the game with just nine catches for 75 yards all year long, Creel nearly tripled his season reception and yardage totals with his performance against the Cardinals. The 14 catches for Creel was the fifth-most ever in a single game by an Eagle, and his receiving yards for the game rank 26th all-time in EMU history.
At Indiana, Haygood was the associate director of player personnel helping serve as the point person on all of the Hoosiers’ recruiting efforts, as well as coordinating camps and high school coaches clinic.
Haygood worked 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. They have two children, Miles and Mason.
The receiving corps were busy in 2017, as the group combined to hauled in 202 balls for 2,635 yards and 20 scores. Senior wide receiver Sergio Bailey II became the first EMU offensive player since Eric Deslauriers in 2006 to earn a first team All-MAC selection.
Bailey was Haygood’s top receiving threat, posting 54 catches for 878 yards and nine scores. The nine TDs were the third-most in an EMU single-season while the 54 grabs ranked eighth-best. Nationally, Bailey finished 19th in receiving touchdowns, 40th in receiving yards, and 79th in receptions per game.
EMU’s offense made a splash in 2016 en route to its first bowl appearance in 29 years, as the Eagles ranked 35th in the FBS in total offense at 455.2 yards per game. The team shattered the school record for total offense with 5,917 yards, breaking the previous record of 5,010. Other notable offensive highlights for the Eagles this past season include ranking 16th nationally in third down conversions, 18th in passing offense, 21st in red zone offense, and 25th in first down offense.
Bailey II earned Third Team All-MAC honors after leading the squad with 60 receptions for 868 yards and seven touchdowns.
During the 2015 campaign, EMU finished the year with 39 touchdowns, a mark that tied for the fifth-most in a single-season during the squad’s 124-year history, while its 4,560 yards of total offense was also the fifth most. Through the air, EMU wide receivers combined for 2,666 yards, ranking seventh in program single-season annals. EMU’s passing attack spread the wealth with seven different receivers having 20-or-more receptions, Eastern Michigan was one of just three schools nationally to accomplish that feat.
In his first year at EMU, Haygood’s youthful receiving corps caught 107 passes and seven touchdowns. Individually, junior Dustin Creel had career days against Ball State, Nov. 22. Creel finished with career bests in catches (14) and receiving yards (152), Entering the game with just nine catches for 75 yards all year long, Creel nearly tripled his season reception and yardage totals with his performance against the Cardinals. The 14 catches for Creel was the fifth-most ever in a single game by an Eagle, and his receiving yards for the game rank 26th all-time in EMU history.
At Indiana, Haygood was the associate director of player personnel helping serve as the point person on all of the Hoosiers’ recruiting efforts, as well as coordinating camps and high school coaches clinic.
Haygood worked 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. They have two children, Miles and Mason.
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; Children - Miles and Mason
Coaching/Playing Experience
Year School Position
2014-Pres. Eastern Michigan University Assistant Coach/Wide receivers
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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