Honors & Accomplishments
• Mentored two All-Ivy League quarterbacks and three of the top eight career passers in school history.
• Won five sectional titles and a regional championship while developing 31 college athletes –including two future NFL players – in eight seasons as a high school head coach.
Recruiting Areas
• Canada, Georgia, New Jersey, New York (Albany, Syracuse, Section 4)
Coaching Experience
• Assistant Head Coach, Cornell University (2013-present)
• Head Coach, Union-Endicott HS (2005-13)
• Offensive Coordinator, Union-Endicott HS (2003-05)
• Assistant Coach, Union-Endicott HS (1999-03)
Playing Experience
• Canisius College (1994-98)
• First-team Division I-AA All-American as a senior
• Led the country in interceptions per game.
• Two-time first-team all-league selection
Education
• B.A., Social Studies Education, Canisius College (1998)
• M.S., Education, Walden University (2005)
At Cornell
Shane Hurd has served as assistant head coach working with the quarterbacks since 2013 and has developed some of the very best to ever play the position for the Big Red.
Under Hurd, two-time All-American Jeff Mathews was a second-team All-Ivy selection as a senior in 2013. He improved his completion percentage and upped his touchdown pass total over his junior season and led the conference in completions (228), attempts (360), passing yards (2,953), total offense yards (2,935), passing yards per game (328.1 ypg) and total offense per game (326.1 ypg.) and was second in passing touchdowns (22) while running for four more. After the season, he earned a spot at the Senior Bowl, serving as team captain, and was invited to the NFL Draft combine. Mathews spent time with the Atlanta Falcons and Indianapolis Colts before heading to the Canadian Football League.
Hurd doesn’t just have Mathews to point to. Robert Somborn took over for Mathews and graduated as one of the school’s top 10 career passers. Dalton Banks earned the starting job in 2016, taking home honorable mention All-Ivy League honors that season and jumping into the school's top five all-time in passing yards, touchdowns, completions and completion percentage.
In all, five different quarterbacks have started games over his first six seasons.
The Big Red quarterbacks, whomever has been behind center, have been consistently excellent over his six-year span, averaging 231.0 passing yards per game with 87 passing touchdowns (79 interceptions) while completing 58 percent of their passes.
Despite having to play four different quarterbacks during 2014, his unit compiled 16 touchdowns and just 11 interceptions, a total of 1,912 passing yards and 52 percent completions. Somborn ended the year with three 300-yard passing games in the final four contests, while rookie Jake Jatis was a two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week. He became the second freshman in school history to start a game under center, joining Mathews.
Somborn earned a majority of the snaps as a junior in 2015, tossing 12 touchdowns with 10 interceptions, before Banks won the job in the fall of 2016 and led the Ivy League in passing touchdowns (23) and ranked in the top 25 nationally in passing yards per game and total offense.
Prior to Cornell
Hurd brought a legacy of more than a decade of leadership and player development of young student-athletes at head coach David Archer’s high school alma mater with him to the collegiate ranks.
Hurd had been one of the most successful high school coaches in New York state during his eight seasons as head coach at Union-Endicott HS, developing 31 collegiate players, including seven who went on to play Division I football. Two of those athletes reached the NFL. His teams won five sectional titles and a regional championship while posting a 56-26 record (.683). His 2012 squad reached the state Class A semifinals and went 9-2.
Hurd served as the offensive coordinator for the New York team in the 2005 Governor's Bowl (New York vs. New Jersey) and served as head coach at the 2009 Ernie Davis Senior All-Star Game.
Prior to taking over as head coach, Hurd spent two years as offensive coordinator and four years as defensive backs and wide receivers coach.
Playing Career
Hurd was a first-team All-American as a junior after leading Division I-AA in interceptions with seven in just seven games. Hurd was a two-time first-team all-league pick.
Personal
Hurd and his wife Danea reside in Endicott, N.Y. with their daughter and son. A 1998 graduate of Canisius with a degree in social studies education, he went on to receive a Master’s in Education at Walden University in 2005. While coaching at Union-Endicott HS, he also taught Social Studies in the school district.
* Updated April 2019
