2009 ARMY FOOTBALL ASSISTANT COACHES
IAN SHIELDS
OFFENSIVE COORD. QUARTERBACKS 1ST SEASON AT ARMY OREGON STATE, 1994 Head coach Rich Ellerson announced the h hiring of Ian Shields as Army’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Januo a ary 2009. Shields came to West Point with Ellerson after completing his second stint as E tthe Cal Poly offensive coordinator in 2008. In 2008, the Mustangs established school records for first downs (262), first downs rushing (162), points scored (488) and touchdowns (67). Shields’ offense scored at least 49 points in six of 11 contests, topping the 50-point barrier three times, including a season-high 69 points in a home defeat of Southern Utah. Cal Poly scored in 41 of its 44 quarters of action in 2008. The Mustangs finished the season ranked first nationally in both total offense (487.45) and scoring offense (44.36), second in pass efficiency (167.72) and third in rushing offense (306.45). Among the many all-conference and All-America performers for the Mustangs in 2008 was wide receiver Ramses Barden. Barden caught 67 passes for 1,257 yards and 18 touchdowns on his way to becoming the school’s career leader in all three categories (206 receptions, 4,203 yards and 50 touchdown catches). Barden recorded at least one touchdown reception in his final 20 contests, surpassing Jerry Rice’s NCAA FCS mark and Larry Fitzgerald’s all-time NCAA record. Barden caught a touchdown pass in 32 of his 46 games for the Mustangs, six more than Rice’s NCAA standard and five more than Ryan Yarborough’s all-time NCAA mark. He was a three-time first team All-Great West Football Conference selection and played in the East-West Shrine Game in Houston, Texas. He was selected by the New York Giants in the third round of the 2009 National Football League Draft. Shields, who also served as Cal Poly’s cooffensive coordinator in 2004 and 2005, departed San Luis Obispo in 2006 when he began a two-year stint as head coach at Eastern Oregon University (2006-07), the first two years the program competed in the scholarship Frontier League of NAIA. Shields led the Mountaineers to a 6-5 finish in 2006, winning their last three games. Prior to that year, the Frontier coaches had picked EOU to finish in last place. As co-offensive coordinator at Cal Poly during his previous two seasons with the Mustangs, Shields was instrumental in developing a dynamic spread-option offensive attack and guiding Cal Poly to its first NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoff berth and victory in 2005. That year, the Mustang offense averaged 27.2 points and 352.8 yards per game as Cal Poly posted a 9-4 record and reached the quarterfinal round of the national playoffs. Cal Poly’s offense generated 30.2 points and 387.2 yards a contest in 2004, racing to a 9-2 record and the first of two Great West Football Conference championships. A 1994 graduate of Oregon State University and former quarterback for the Beavers, Shields served a oneyear term as offensive coordinator at Bucknell University in 2003. The Bison recorded the biggest single-season turnaround in Patriot League history that season, leading the league in rushing, passing efficiency, turnover margin, fewest penalties against and fewest sacks against.
THE SHIELDS FAMILY: IAN, NORMA, BEAU AND JONAH THE SHIELDS FILE Year at Army: 1st Career Year: 16th Hometown: Oregon City, Oregon Family: wife, Norma; sons, Beau and Jonah EDUCATION B.S., Speech Communication, Oregon State, 1994 M.S., Interdisciplanary Studies, Oregon State, 1997 COACHING EXPERIENCE (last position held is listed) 2009-present: Army (offensive coordinator/quarterbacks) 2008: Cal Poly (offensive coordinator) 2006-07: Eastern Oregon (head coach) 2004-05: Cal Poly (co-offensive coordinator) 2003: Bucknell (offensive coordinator) 2000-02: Saint Mary’s (offensive coordinator) 1997-99: Eastern Oregon (offensive coordinator) 1994-96: Oregon State (graduate assistant) RECRUITING AREAS California, Hawai’i, Oregon, Washington A native Oregonian, Shields began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Oregon State. He worked with the Beavers’ linebackers, tight ends, quarterbacks and running backs, while assisting with OSU’s special teams during that three-season (1994-96) stay. He moved on to Eastern Oregon for the first time in 1997, assuming offensive coordinator duties for three years (1997-99). During that time he helped to develop the Mountaineers’ all-time leading passer, rusher and receiver. Eastern Oregon’s offense established 35 school records during that period. Shields moved on to Saint Mary’s in 2000, heading the Gaels’ vaunted spreadoption attack for three seasons (2000-02). St. Mary’s finished in the top five nationally in rushing offense each of those seasons. In his first season at St, Mary’s, Shields helped the Gaels shatter single season school records in rushing yards (3404), touchdowns (50) and first downs (233). St. Mary’s also established single game school standards in scoring (71 points) and rushing yards (535). Shields, who lettered three times in football and twice in baseball at Oregon State, was elected team captain of the gridiron squad during his final campaign. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in speech communication and earned a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from OSU in 1997. He and his wife, Norma, a former collegiate volleyball standout at Eastern Oregon, have two sons: Beau and Jonah. The family resides at West Point.
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