BILLINGS PROMOTES SHAW TO ASSISTANT HEAD COACH

Southeast Missouri State football coach Tim Billings has promoted assistant coach Kip Shaw to assistant head coach and has named defensive secondary coach Shannon Morrison the team's defensive coordinator.

Morrison will replace Mike Phillips who resigned to pursue other opportunities in Texas.

Shaw, who worked two years with Billings at Marshall, will handle football administrative duties in addition to coaching the offensive backs.

"Coach Shaw runs the show for me," Billings said. "He is an excellent administrator who has a great understanding of the plans we have for Southeast football. We've worked together now for three years and so I know him and he knows me. Coach Shaw is a very capable young man."

Morrison, formerly Southeast's defensive backs coach, was a defensive coordinator at Hampden-Sydney and also has coaching experience at Marshall and Sam Houston State.

Billings recruited Morison to play at Marshall and coached him for four years.

"Coach Morrison knows my defensive system and how we want to play defense at Southeast," Billings said. "He has the experience of having already been a coordinator at the Division II level and he is ready for the challenge at Southeast."

In one other coaching move, Billings has elevated part-time assistant Tony Joe White to a full-time assistant's position as coordinator of special teams. White, a former quarterback at East Texas State, worked with the Southeast special teams and tight ends last season after serving the prior two seasons as an assistant at Southwest Baptist."

Southeast will begin spring drills on March 28 with the spring game at Houck Stadium scheduled for April 29.