HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University football coach Ron Roberts announced Tuesday that Greg Stevens and Hammond native Pete Golding have joined the coaching staff, serving as offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator respectively.

Stevens, who served as Roberts' offensive coordinator the past two seasons at Delta State, oversaw a Statesman offense that ranked 12th in Division II in total offense while ranking 21st nationally in passing offense. Under Stevens' guidance, DSU led the Gulf South Conference in scoring offense while quarterback Micah Davis was a finalist for the Harlon Hill Trophy – the Division II equivalent to the Heisman Trophy.

Stevens, a native of Ephraim, Utah, spent four years on the staff at Utah State before joining the DSU staff and spent three seasons as the offensive coordinator at Stephen F. Austin (2002-04). While with the Lumberjacks, Stevens directed an offense that ranked first in the Southland Conference in passing in 2002 and 2003, and was 36th nationally in 2004.

“Greg has worked with me the last two years and has tremendous experience,” Roberts said. “He's been in the Southland (Conference) before with several years at SFA and he was at Utah State. The last two years (at Delta State), he did an amazing job and he had a tremendous offensive mind and I think he's as good as anyone out there in college football.”

Golding, a former Hammond High product and four-year letterwinner at DSU, is regarded as one of the fastest rising assistants in college football. Golding spent the past seasons as defensive coordinator at DSU, where the Statesmen led the GSC in total defense and rushing defense in 2011.

“He is well beyond his years in experience,” Roberts said of Golding. “He has a brilliant (defensive) mind, very intelligent and understands a lot of things that we're trying to do and what we want to get done. He is a tremendous secondary coach and does a great job in the cerebral part of the game and making sure we're in the best scheme possible to shut people down.”

Golding, who was a four-year starter at safety for the Statesmen from 2002-05, finished with 285 tackles in his career and earned All-Gulf South Conference honors. A 2005 graduate of DSU, Golding began his coaching career in 2006 as a graduate assistant at DSU for former coach Rick Rhoades before serving as defensive backs coach at Tusculum (Tenn.) College in 2007.

He was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2008 and guided a unit that led the South Atlantic Conference in sacks and turnovers forced en route to an appearance in the Division II playoffs.