Erik Campbell - Passing Game Coordinator (Wide Receivers) - Staff Directory

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Erik Campbell

Title:
Passing Game Coordinator (Wide Receivers)
Email:
Phone:
419-372-7083

Coach Campbell
Hometown	Gary, Ind.
College	Michigan (1988)
Coaching History
1988	Michigan, Student Assistant
1989-90	Navy, Running Backs
1991-93	Ball State, Running Backs
1994	Syracuse, Running Backs
1995-07	Michigan, Wide Receivers/Assistant Head Coach
2008-12	Iowa, Wide Receivers/Tight Ends
2013-14	Montreal Alouettes, Wide Receivers
2015	Michigan, Recruiting Coordinator
2016	Connecticut, Wide Receivers
2017-18	Delaware, Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers
2019-pres	Bowling Green, Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers

Erik Campbell is in his sixth season at Bowling Green in 2024 as the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach. He has more than 37 years of coaching experience, which includes more than 15 years of coaching in the Big Ten, as well as two years in the Canadian Football League (CFL).

A great developer of wide receivers, Campbell had a 1,000-yard receiver for an NCAA-record eight straight seasons and mentored two of the most successful receivers in Big Ten history (Braylon Edwards at Michigan and Marin McNutt at Iowa).

All-MAC performer Odieu Hiliare thrived in his two seasons at BGSU under Campbell. Hiliare had 103 receptions, 1,279 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns over the 2022 and 2023 seasons before signing a free agent deal in 2024 with the Atlanta Falcons.

Bowling Green's Tyrone Broden has emerged under Campbell's tutelage. In 2021, Broden had a career season with 36 receptions for 596 yards and five touchdowns, giving the Falcons a bona fide deep threat before his transfer to Arkansas. Austin Osborne also emerged from the wide receiver group in 2021. The Washington transfer came to BGSU with one career reception and finished the year with a BG-best 64 receptions for 546 yards and two touchdowns.

In 2019, Campbell’s wide receivers developed under his tutelage. Redshirt sophomore Julian Ortega-Jones became a threat with almost 300 receiving yards and senior RB Marlow was a productive pass-catcher, leading the wide receivers in receptions.

Prior to his time at BGSU, he spent two years (2017-18) at Delaware as the passing game coordinator and wide receiver coach.

A 1988 graduate of Michigan and a native of Gary, Ind., Campbell came to BGSU with three years of experience in the Mid-American Conference, two years in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and more than 15 years of coaching tenure in the Big Ten.

As a player at Michigan from 1984-87, Campbell started 30 career games, including the final 25 games of his career, as a defensive back. He is the only player in Michigan history to start all four secondary positions in one year.

Campbell has been a part of 26 postseason football games, including four bowl games as a student-athlete and 19 as a coach. He has coached in four Rose Bowls and played in another, coached in two Orange Bowls, and played in a Fiesta Bowl.

Campbell began his coaching career as running backs coach at Navy from 1989-90. He then moved on to Ball State in the same role from 1991-93 and then at Syracuse in 1994. Campbell returned to his alma mater to serve as the wide receivers coach and assistant head coach (2003-07) from 1995-07.

At Michigan, Campbell was a part of the 1997 national championship team, coaching three All-Americans (David Terrell, Marquise Walker and Braylon Edwards) and 18 All-Big Ten selections. He had a 1,000-yard receiver for an NCAA-record eight straight seasons and mentored two of the most successful receivers in Big Ten history (Edwards and Marin McNutt at Iowa).

Following his time at Michigan, Campbell spent five years coaching the wide receivers and tight ends at Iowa before moving on to the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL to coach wide receivers for two seasons.

He returned to Michigan under Jim Harbaugh in 2015 as the recruiting coordinator and assistant director of operations before moving on to Connecticut as the wide receivers coach in 2016.

Campbell is a member of both the Indiana High School Football Hall of Fame and the Indiana High School Track & Field Hall of Fame. He was all-state at Roosevelt High School in Gary, Ind. and gained All-American honors in track after leading his team to back-to-back state championships. He was recognized in his hometown with the Benjamin Hooks Award, presented by the Gary chapter of the NAACP, during the spring of 2010, which is presented for efforts in implementing policies and programs that promote equal opportunity.