Darin Clifford Hinshaw (born June 6, 1972) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is currently the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB). Prior to UAB, he was an offensive analyst at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He played college football at UCF, where he finished his career as the program's leader in career passing yards and touchdowns.
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| Position: | Offensive coordinator | ||||||||
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| Born: | (1972-06-06) June 6, 1972 (age 50) Punta Gorda, Florida | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Charlotte (FL) | ||||||||
| College: | UCF | ||||||||
| Undrafted: | 1995 | ||||||||
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Hinshaw was initially recruited by Florida by Galen Hall, but committed to UCF after Hall's successor Steve Spurrier recruited Hinshaw's high school quarterback rival to play for the Gators.[1] At UCF, he set multiple career program records in both passing yards and touchdowns, many that have since been broken.[2] He was also a member of the school's men's basketball team for the 1993–94 season when they made the NCAA Tournament.[3][4]
After going undrafted in the 1995 NFL Draft, Hinshaw signed with the Cleveland Browns, but only lasted four days with the team.[5] He had brief stints with multiple CFL expansions teams in 1995 before spending two seasons with the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League (AFL).[6] He also had stints with the Granite State Warriors of the Eastern Football League and the AFL's Nashville Kats.
After retiring from professional football, Hinshaw returned to his alma mater UCF in 1999 as a graduate assistant. After being promoted to quarterbacks coach in 2000, Hinshaw joined the coaching staff at Middle Tennessee as running backs coach in 2001, working his way up to offensive coordinator by 2005. He left Middle Tennessee to accept the offensive coordinator position at Georgia Southern in 2006, where he spent one season as the head of the Eagles offense.[7]
Hinshaw was named the wide receivers coach at Memphis in 2007. He joined the coaching staff at Tennessee in 2010 as quarterbacks coach under first-year head coach Derek Dooley.[8] He was reassigned to wide receivers coach in 2012 and was not retained when Dooley was fired at the end of the 2012 season.
Hinshaw was hired as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Cincinnati in 2013 on the staff of another head coach in its first season with their program, Tommy Tuberville.
Hinshaw was named the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Kentucky in 2016, following Cincinnati offensive coordinator Eddie Gran.[9] He and Gran were fired after the 2020 season when the Kentucky offense ranked towards the bottom in many offensive categories.[10][11] He was announced as an analyst at his alma mater UCF on August 2, 2021.[12]
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