Doug Phillips Last College: Toledo '91 Position: Defensive Ends/Recruiting Experience: 2nd Season Email: douglap@bgsu.edu

To email coach Phillips: douglap@bgsu.edu

Doug Phillips is in his second season with the Falcons.

Last season he coach first team All-MAC performer Diyral Briggs, who had 54 tackles and five sacks in his first year under Phillips.

Doug Phillips joined the Falcon staff after spending the 2006 season as the defensive quality control coach at Ohio State. He was part of a staff which won the Big Ten championship and played in the BCS title game. Last year, the Buckeyes were fifth in the country in scoring defense. On the field, he assisted with the Buckeye linebackers which included All-American and Bronko Nagurski Trophy winner James Laurinaitis.

He enters his 20th year in the coaching profession. He worked for 15 years at the high school level, including nine as a head coach. In addition, he spent two years at Youngstown State with Jim Tressel, while earning his masters degree. He coached tight ends, defensive backs and running backs/kickers during his stay. Under Tressel, Phillips has coached in three national championship games including this past season at OSU and in 1992 and 1991 at YSU. The Penguins won the Division IAA title in 1991.

A native of New Middletown, Ohio, and a 1991 graduate of Toledo, Phillips led his high school alma mater, Springfield Local, to back-to-back state playoff appearances. His 1999 team won the first of consecutive league championships and made the first of those two playoff appearances, while his 2000 squad went undefeated in the regular season and returned to the postseason, where it to the state quarterfinals. After four years at Springfield Local (1997-2000) Phillips moved onto Salem High School, where he spent five seasons (2001-05) and guided his teams to better records every season, culminating with a league runner-up finish in 2005. In addition, he guided the school to consecutive winning records in 2004 and 2005, a feat that was accomplished for the first time in 30 years at the school.

While an undergraduate student at Toledo, Phillips got his coaching career started at Toledo St. Francis DeSales and Sylvania Northview. After earning a bachelors degree in education from UT in 1991, he received a master's degree in educational administration from Youngstown State in 1995.