Temple University Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Defensive Line Coach
- Email:
- rmelvin@temple.edu
- Phone:
- 215-204-0855
- Alma Mater:
- Eastern Illinois '82
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"Temple University, our student-athletes, and our football program are blessed to have a coach of Randy Melvin's character, experience, and professionalism joining the Owls. Coach Melvin's background is exceptional with stops in the Big East, Big Ten, the Cleveland Browns, and of course, earning a World Championship in 2001 with the New England Patriots. We are thrilled to have Randy and his wife Karen join the Temple football family."
Head Coach Al Golden
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After four years with the Cleveland Browns, Randy Melvin returns to the collegiate ranks this fall in his first season at Temple as the defensive line coach.
A native of Aurora, Ill., Melvin spent the last four seasons as the defensive line coach for the NFL Cleveland Browns.
After the Patriots' defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel was hired as the Browns' head coach in 2005, Melvin rejoined the NFL coaching ranks as the Browns' defensive line coach.
Melvin served for two seasons as defensive line coach with the New England Patriots, including the 2001 Super Bowl Champion season.
For the 1995 training camp, Melvin worked with the Denver Broncos as part of the NFL's minority coaching fellowship program. He participated in this program for the next two years with the New York Jets, the second of which, 1997, was spent while Bill Belichick was the Jets' assistant head coach. When Belichick left the Jets in 2000 to serve as the New England Patriots' head coach, Melvin was hired as the Patriots' defensive line coach. In his second and final season with the team in 2001, Melvin earned his first Super Bowl ring by winning Super Bowl XXXVI.
In 1988, Melvin entered the collegiate coaching ranks at his alma mater Eastern Illinois as the defensive line coach. After seven seasons with Eastern Illinois, he left for Wyoming to be the defensive tackles coach for the 1995 and 1996 seasons. The Cowboys were impressive under Melvin's tutelage, recording a Western Athletic Conference best 33 sacks in 1995, and following it up with another league best 46 sacks in 1996.
From 1997 through 1999, Melvin served as Purdue's defensive ends coach. He returned to college coaching in 2002 as the defensive line coach at Rutgers. After three seasons with the team, he spent time with Illinois as the defensive line coach before returning to the professional ranks.
A 1982 graduate of Eastern Illinois, Melvin was a starter on the defensive line for the Panthers for three seasons and received AP All-America recognition (Division II) in 1979 and 1980. He also earned his master's degree from the school in 1993. He was inducted into the Halls of Fame at both Eastern Illinois University (1995) and Aurora West High School (1994).
Melvin and his wife Karen are the proud parents of two children, Lance and Malia. THE MELVIN FILE
Year Coaching: 24th College: Eastern Illinois '82 B.S. Health Administration and Education M.A. '93 Education Administration and Supervision High School: Aurora (Ill.) West COACHING Temple 2009 - Defensive Line Cleveland Browns 2005-08 - Defensive Line Illinois Feb. 2005 - Defensive Line Rutgers 2002-04 - Defensive Line New England Patriots 2000-01 - Defensive Line Purdue 1997-99 - Defensive Ends NFL Coaching Fellowship 1996-97 - New York Jets 1995 - Denver Broncos Wyoming 1995-96 - Defensive Tackles Eastern Illinois 1988-94 - Defensive Line PLAYING Eastern Illinois (1979-82) - Defensive Line
