Arkansas State University

Dave Roberson enters his seventh season in 2020 as the Red Wolves’ Director of Player Personnel and his fourth year handling recruiting coordinator responsibilities.
 
Roberson owns 14 years of working experience at the collegiate level, and his first six seasons at A-State saw the program claim back-to-back Sun Belt Conference championships in 2015-16 and appear in six bowl games.
 
During Roberson’s time at A-State, the Red Wolves have seen 65 different players tabbed an All-Sun Belt Conference selection 97 times – the most in the league over that span.
 
The 2014 team played in the Go Daddy Bowl, while the 2015 squad posted a 9-4 overall record and collected the league title with an unblemished 8-0 mark on its way to the New?Orleans Bowl.
 
The following season in 2016, the Red Wolves overcame an 0-4 start to ?nish with an 8-5 record that included a 31-13 win over UCF?in the Cure Bowl.  In 2017, Roberson and the Red Wolves won at least seven games for the fourth consecutive year and played Middle Tennessee in the Camellia Bowl.
 
A-State won eight games in 2018 and played Nevada in the Arizona Bowl, while most recently claiming the 2019 Camellia Bowl crown with a 34-26 victory over Florida International.
 
Prior to A-State, Roberson spent the 2012-13 seasons as an assistant coach at Savannah State.
 
He operated as the Tigers’ outside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinated his last season. Roberson helped tutor linebacker Marquis Smith in 2013, when he was named All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference after leading the team in tackles (124) while also posting two fumble recoveries, a sack and an interception.
 
Roberson went to Savannah State from Penn State, where he served as the o?ensive quality control coach in 2011 to 2012.  He served under Penn State head coaches Joe Paterno and Bill O’Brien during his time at Penn State.
 
Roberson was part of a successful Southern Miss football program, led by head coach Larry Fedora, during the 2010 season when he worked as a defensive assistant under defensive line coach Deke Adams.
 
Roberson spent the 2009 campaign at Notre Dame College of Ohio, where he was the special teams and linebackers coach as well as the recruiting coordinator.  He assisted head coach Adam Howard successfully start an NCAA Division-II program and was directly responsible for over-seeing the 2010 Signing Day class of 55 players.
 
While working as the co-special teams coordinator at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., during the 2008 season, Roberson’s special teams units ?nished the year among the leaders in several statistical categories in the Northeast Ten?Conference.
 
Prior to his time at Stonehill, Roberson served as the Assistant Director of Football Operations and linebackers coach at Norwich University in 2006 and 2007.
 
Roberson was a four-year letterman at Wilmington College, where he played Linebacker and received his Bachelor of Science in Sport Management in 2003. Roberson is currently working on his Master of Science in Educational Leadership at Penn State University.
 
Roberson and his wife, Sarah, have one daughter – Reece.