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Duane Akina (born October 22, 1956) currently serves as the defensive pass game coordinator for the
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football team. In 28 years of coaching football, Akina has coached three Thorpe Award winners in Darryll Lewis (1990), Michael Huff (2005), and Aaron Ross (2006), as well as five finalists for the award, among them Chris McAlister. Twenty of his defensive backs have also gone on to play in the
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. He was an assistant coach to Dick Tomey at the
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for 14 years, serving as defensive backs coach and offensive coordinator. He was named Arizona defensive coordinator in 2000, but decided to leave for Texas to become the team's defensive back coach. Akina was promoted to co-
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and retained his duties as defensive backs coach for the Longhorns from 2005 to 2007. In the 2007 season, he shared the defensive coordinator position with
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, but called the defensive plays. After a frustrating season, in which the Longhorns defense allowed a school-record 4,498 total yards, Akina could have faced dismissal following the 2007 Holiday Bowl. However, not Akina, but Larry Mac Duff resigned. Akina was nonetheless demoted to secondary coach after
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was hired as the new defensive coordinator. Following
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' resignation at
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, Akina was considered to be one of the candidates for his replacement. In January 2011, it was announced that Akina would be leaving the Longhorns to be the defensive backs coach at the
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. One month later, his replacement at Texas, Jerry Gray, left the Longhorns to become the defensive coordinator of the
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. A few days later, Akina announced that he would be returning to Texas to resume his defensive backs position with the Longhorns due to family considerations. On January 10, 2014, it was reported that Akina would not return for the Longhorns in 2014 after new head coach
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decided not to keep him on his staff. In March 2014, Akina was hired as the
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coach for
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.


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