University of Indianapolis assistant football coach
Kenny Ray Augustus spent a part of his summer with the National Football League's San Diego Chargers as part of the Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship. Augustus was among 96 minority coaches – including 43 former NFL players– to participate in this summer's fellowship.
The program, which was named after the man who conceived the idea – late Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Bill Walsh – exposes talented minority college coaches to the methods and philosophies of summer NFL training camps. Walsh introduced the concept in 1987 when he brought a group of minority coaches into his San Francisco 49ers’ training camp. The program has mentored more than 1,500 minority coaches through the years.
Four current NFL coaches are graduates of the program: Marvin Lewis (Cincinnati Bengals), Raheem Morris (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Lovie Smith (Chicago Bears) and Mike Tomlin (Pittsburgh Steelers). Learn more about the program and participants
here.
Augustus worked with the San Diego Chargers -- and specifically Chargers defensive line coach Don Johnson -- during training camp and will have an opportunity to help them again on a limited basis following the Greyhounds' season. The Chargers visit Indianapolis to play the Colts on Nov. 28 and later return to the area to play the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 26.
Augustus, a 1999 graduate of the University of Cincinnati, is entering his sixth season as an assistant coach for the Greyhounds. He coaches the defensive line and has duties with the special teams units.