Brian Hughes - 2010 Football Coaching Staff - LIU Post
Brian Hughes
Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line
Phone: 3852
Email: brian.hughes@liu.edu
The 2010 season will mark the 13th campaign in which Brian Hughes has served as offensive coordinator at C.W. Post.
in 2009, the Pioneers were the top rushing team in the entire PSAC (214.5 yards per game) and fourth overall in total offense (397/gm.). Junior quarterback Erik Anderwkavich was the ECAC Player of the Year and freshman running back Thomas Beverly earned Freshman of the Year honors from both the ECAC and PSAC. C.W. Post finished the last five games of the season outscoring its opponents by an average of over 16 points a game.
In 2005, he directed the Pioneers to top-10 national rankings in Division II in total offense (fourth – 517.8/gm.), scoring offense (fifth – 42.5 ppg) and rushing offense (ninth – 269.9/gm.), helping C.W. Post to its first-ever NCAA Division II Championship quarterfinals appearance. Under Hughes’s tutelage, offensive lineman Steven Broecker and quarterback Rob Blount garnered All-America accolades following the record-setting season in which the Pioneers set school records for points (552), rushing yards (3,509), total offense (6.731) and touchdowns (77).
Hughes, the Pioneers’ offensive line coach, coached the eventual Northeast-10 Conference Offensive Lineman of the Year – Broecker in 2005, and Taibika Hickson in 2004. Blount was named the NE-10’s Most Valuable Player in 2005. During that span, the Pioneers advanced to the NCAA Division II Championship tournament in three of those last four seasons.
In 2005, Hughes was named the Division II Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association.
In the 1999-02 span, Hughes game-planned his offense around standout running back Ian Smart – one of only four running backs ever to rush for 2,000-plus yards in a season twice, and an athlete who played for the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League. The Pioneers’ trip to the NCAA Championship in the 2002 campaign was the school’s first appearance since the 1976 season.
Hughes, who also coached C.W. Post’s offensive line from 1993-94, spent the 1995-96 seasons at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point, N.Y.), where he was the Mariners’ linebackers, special teams, and strength and conditioning coach. The Mariners won a pair of ECAC titles during his stay at USMMA.
Hughes, who also serves as Associate Athletic Director for Business Operations at C.W. Post, is a 1988 graduate of Hofstra University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Geology. He then received a master’s degree in earth science in 1994 from C.W. Post – where he has served as an adjunct professor in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department.
Hughes resides in Bethpage, N.Y. with his wife, Cynthia, and four daughters.
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