DAYTON - The University of Dayton Football team has added two new coaches for the upcoming season. Jim Collins and Josh Hendershot are joining coach Rich Chamberlin's staff for 2020.  
 
"We're very excited to have coach Collins and coach Hendershot join our program," Chamberlin said. "They know our traditions and the expectations we have for the young men on our team here at the University of Dayton.
 
Jim Collins will take over as offensive coordinator and quarterback coach. He was most recently at Army West Point (2019), where he was the director of player personnel. Prior to that, Collins was the head coach, offensive coordinator, and quarterback coach at Saginaw Valley State from 2008-2019. Collins led his team to three straight Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference North Division Championships from 2011-2013, as well as three NCAA Division II playoff appearances (2009, 2011, 2013). His team ranked in the Final National Poll twice (2009, 2013) and Final Regional Poll six times. 
 
Collins was also the head coach, offensive coordinator, and quarterback coach at Capital University in nearby Columbus, Ohio, from 1997-2007. He was named Ohio Athletic Conference Coach of the Year on three separate occasions (2001, 2003, 2006). During his tenure there, Collins led his team to three NCAA Division III Playoff Appearances (2005, 2006, 2007) and his team was ranked in the Final National Poll 3 times (#3 in 2006, #5 in 2005, #13 in 2007). 
 
Collins was first a head coach at the University of Dubuque where he was also the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach from 1994-1996. Before that, Collins was a first-time offensive coordinator at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he was also the quarterback coach and wide receivers' coach from 1991-1993.
 
To start off his coaching career, Collins was a graduate assistant at Central Michigan in 1990 and 1991.
 
Collins has also been a member of the American Football Coaches Association since 1991 where he has served on the Rules Committee and the All-American Committee. 
 
Collins received his bachelor's degree in business administration at Wittenberg University in June 1988 and received his master's degree in athletic administration at Central Michigan University in August 1991.
 
Collins is known as a high-energy leader with a proven track record of building and directing successful football programs, as well as developing a winning culture, setting a standard of excellence, emphasizing high academic achievement, developing talent, and aggressively recruiting outstanding student-athletes.
 
"Jim has been successful everywhere he has been as a head coach and as an assistant coach.  He is known in our world as a coach of record-setting quarterbacks and will bring that experience with him to Dayton."
 
Collins will be joined by offensive line coach and run game coordinator Josh Hendershot. Hendershot is known to be proficient in the spread offense, primarily offensive line and tight end play. Hendershot also has a vast knowledge of pass protection; man/zone and play-action schemes with various pocket movements.
 
Hendershot is joining the staff after spending one season at the University of Michigan as the offensive line graduate assistant. He assisted the offensive line coach and the entire offensive staff at Michigan with day-to-day responsibilities including recruiting, position meetings, film breakdown, and in-box game day responsibilities and adjustments among others. 
 
Prior to Michigan, Hendershot spent two years with the University of Toledo football team as the offensive line graduate assistant and recruiting graduate assistant. 
 
Hendershot was an assistant coach at Newark Catholic High School in Newark, Ohio, from June 2015 to December 2016. Before that, he was the strength and conditioning coach as well as the offensive line coach.
 
Newark Catholic was 17-8 with two state playoff appearances, and one state semifinal appearance during his two years on staff.
 
As a player, he was a three-year starter at left tackle at Toledo. Hendershot received his bachelor's degree in science from the University of Toledo College of Health and Human Services in 2014 and received his master's degree in arts from the University of Toledo in 2018. 
 
"Josh played for Bill Franks, who was a record-setting receiver for us, and he his position coach at Toledo was Austin King, who he now succeeds as our line coach. He is very familiar with the values in our program, and what we want to do on the offensive line," Chamberlin noted.
 
The two new coaches succeed Kevin Hoyng, who relocated out-of-state for family reasons, and Austin King, who joined Jon Gruden's staff with the Las Vegas Raiders. 
 
Collins and Hendershot will make the Flyer football public debut at UD's annual Spring Game on Sunday, April 19, at Welcome Stadium.