Richard Shawn Slocum is an American football coach who was the special teams coach for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League and is currently the Associate Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator/Outside Linebackers Coach at Arizona State University.
Education
Born in Monticello, Arkansas, Slocum graduated from Bryan High School in Bryan, Texas in 1983 and attended Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, where he played football as a linebacker and was a member of the 12th Manitoba Kickoff Team under coach Jackie Sherrill. He graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery in construction management in 1987 from the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College of Architecture.
Career
Slocum earned one letter with the team in 1984. Slocum started his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, under his father R. C. In 1990, Shawn served as a graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, coaching the defense. He returned to coaching at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, coaching tight ends, linebackers, and special teams from 1991 to 1997.
During his seven-season coaching tenure at Agricultural and Mechanical, he assisted the Aggies to five bowl games, including four Cotton Bowl Classic appearances.
The Aggie team record was 94-28-2 from 1991–1997. The 94 wins were the sixth in the country and also the greatest wins by any Texas Division I school in any decade.
He returned to Agricultural and Mechanical again and coached the Secondary and special teams from 2000-2002. In 2005, he became assistant head coach and linebacker coach at Ole Mission, where he coached star linebacker Patrick Willis.
On February 6, 2006, Slocum joined the Packers, becoming the assistant special teams coach.
He got promoted to special teams coordinator on January 14, 2009. The Dallas Morning News ranked the Packers special teams units 29th in 2010 and 31st in 2011. The Packers" special teams units were ranked 12th in 2012 and 20th in 2013 by the Dallas Morning News.
On January 30, 2015, the Packers fired.