Don Treadwell Position: Offensive Coordinator Experience: First Year

Don Treadwell, one of eight assistants to follow head coach Mark Dantonio from Cincinnati to Michigan State, is in his first season as offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach. Treadwell, a 23-year coaching veteran, has been an offensive coordinator at four schools, including the past three years on Coach Dantonio's staff at Cincinnati. Along with Dantonio, he also has experience in East Lansing, serving as the Spartan receivers coach from 2000-02.

Upon becoming Cincinnati's offensive coordinator in 2004, he put together a balanced offense that produced a 2,500-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher and 1,000-yard receiver, while topping the 2,000-yard mark in both rushing (2,201) and passing (2,666), only the second time that feat had been accomplished in UC history. Working with the wide receivers, Treadwell tutored Hannibal Thomas, who compiled the fourth 1,000-yard receiving season by a Bearcat while earning all-conference honors. In addition, quarterback Gino Guidugli threw for 2,633 yards, the fifth-best single-season total in Bearcat history, while ranking 15th in the nation in passing efficiency (146.48 rating). Overall, Cincinnati ranked 30th in the country in total offense, averaging 405.6 yards a game.

Prior to Cincinnati, Treadwell served as offensive coordinator at Ball State in 2003, where he helped develop the Cardinal offense to school records for passing yards and passing TDs. During his three seasons at Michigan State, he tutored several top receivers, including Charles Rogers, the 2002 Biletnikoff Award winner and the No. 2 pick of the 2003 NFL Draft. Under Treadwell's tutelage, Rogers set MSU single-season receiving records in receptions, receiving yards and touchdown receptions, and left MSU as the second all-time receiver in school history with 2,821 yards in just two seasons. In 2001, Treadwell coached one of the nation's top receiving duos in Rogers and Herb Haygood, who combined for 124 receptions, 2,278 yards and 18 touchdowns. Haygood was selected by Denver in the fifth round (No. 144 overall) in the 2002 NFL Draft.

Treadwell came to Michigan State following one season at North Carolina State, where he coached the running backs in 1999. The Oberlin, Ohio, native previously spent two years at Boston College where he served as the co-offensive coordinator while also working with the quarterbacks and wide receivers. Treadwell coached running backs under Tyrone Willingham at Stanford from 1995-96. He directed a Cardinal rushing attack that racked up 1,819 yards in 1995 - the ninth-best single-season total in school history.

His full-time coaching credits also include one season as a wide receivers coach at Cincinnati (1994), a two-year stay with his alma mater Miami-Ohio (1992-93), and a five-year stint with Youngstown State (1986-91). Treadwell spent all of those seasons at Youngstown State under former head coach and current Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel, along with Coach Dantonio, who served as YSU's defensive coordinator from 1986-90. Treadwell worked with the wide receivers, running backs and quarterbacks at Youngstown State, and while serving as the offensive coordinator in 1991, he helped guide the Penguins to the NCAA I-AA National Championship. He also participated in the NFL's Minority Coaching Fellowship Program in 1989-90, working with the San Francisco 49ers.

Treadwell was a four-year starter at wide receiver at Miami-Ohio (1978-81), earning first-team All-Mid- American Conference honors as a junior. He had 73 career receptions for 1,540 yards, averaging a school-record 21.1 yards per catch.

He earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from Miami-Ohio in 1982.

Born June 10, 1960, Treadwell graduated from Oberlin High School in 1978 where he played quarterback.

Married to the former Lola Pinskey of Fostoria, Ohio, Treadwell and his wife have three children: Whittney (21), Blake (16) and Spencer (14).

THE TREADWELL FILE

PERSONAL DATA:
Born June 10, 1960. Family: wife Lola; daughter Whitney (20), sons Blake (15) and Spencer (13).

PREVIOUS COACHING EXPERIENCE:
College - Quarterbacks, receivers, running backs coach and offensive coordinator at Youngstown State (1986-91); running backs and receivers coach at Miami (Ohio) (1992-93); receivers coach at Cincinnati (1994); running backs coach at Stanford (1995-96); co-offensive coordinator, quarterbacks and receivers coach at Boston College (1997-98); running backs coach at North Carolina State (1999); receivers coach at Michigan State (2000-02); receivers, offensive coordinator at Ball State (2003); offensive coordinator at Cincinnati (2004-06).

EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree in physical education from Miami (Ohio) in 1982.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE:
College - Four-year starter as a wide receiver at Miami (Ohio) (1978-81) and named captain as a senior.

BOWL/POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE:
Coach - 1987 NCAA I-AA Playoffs, 1989 NCAA I-AA Playoffs, 1990 NCAA I-AA Playoffs, 1991 NCAA I-AA champions, 1995 Liberty, 1996 Sun, 2000 Florida Citrus, 2001 Silicon Valley Football Classic, 2004 Fort Worth Bowl.