Jan. 23, 2015
SAN DIEGO - San Diego State football head coach Rocky Long has named Bobby Hauck as an assistant coach. Hauck (pronounced HOWK), who has been a collegiate head coach the past 12 years (95-66, .590), will also be the Aztecs' special teams coordinator, a position he has coached 21 of the past 22 seasons.
Hauck gives SDSU four former Division I head coaches on the staff, including Long (San Diego State, 2011-current; New Mexico, 1998-08), associate head coach/offensive coordinator/running backs coach Jeff Horton (Minnesota (interim), 2010; UNLV, 1994-98; Nevada, 1993), Hauck (UNLV, 2010-14; Montana, 2003-09) and director of player personnel Kevin McGarry (San Diego, 1996-03).
Hauck spent the last five seasons at Mountain West foe UNLV, where he led the Rebels to the 2013 Heart of Dallas Bowl, the program's first bowl game since 2000. UNLV ended up finishing 7-6 in 2013, including a 5-3 record in MW play. The Rebels recorded seven wins for just the third time since 1984 and recorded five MW victories for the first time in league history. Hauck also was the special teams coordinator at UNLV all five years.
Before taking over the Rebels, Hauck was one of the winningest coaches in FCS at Montana, compiling an 80-17 overall record in seven seasons from 2003-09. Hauck led the Grizzlies to three FCS national championship appearances and earned at least a share of the Big Sky Conference title all seven years, going 47-6 in league play. Hauck racked up numerous accolades at Montana, including being named the Big Sky Coach of the Year three times (2006-07, 2009) and the AFCA Regional FCS Coach of the Year twice (2006 and 2009). He also coached the special teams with the Grizzlies.
Prior to joining his alma mater, Hauck had a four-year stint at Pac-12's Washington, working with the safeties and special teams from 1999-01 and the defensive backs in 2002. Before UW, Hauck was at Big 12's Colorado (now Pac-12) from 1995-98, coaching special teams all four seasons, the safeties (and recruiting coordinator) in 1998 and the outside linebackers from 1995-97.
Hauck has also logged coaching stints at Northern Arizona from 1993-94 (outside linebackers, special teams, recruiting coordinator), UCLA from 1990-92 (assistant recruiting coordinator in 1992, graduate assistant from 1990-91), Montana from 1988-89 (defensive line in 1989, secondary from 1988-89) and as an assistant coach at Sweet Grass High School in Big Timber, Mont., in 1987.
Altogether, Hauck has coached in nine bowl games at the FBS level and in eight postseasons at the FCS stage.
Hauck earned his bachelor's degree at Montana in 1987 and a master's at UCLA in 1991.
Hauck and his wife, Stacy, have four children - Sydney, Alexandria, Robby and Elise.