Tim Keane, who played for UC Davis from 2003-06, returned the Aggie football coaching staff in January, 2016, after two previous coaching stints at his alma mater. The 2019 season is the alum's eighth as a member of the program's coaching staff.
Following UC Davis' 2018 FCS postseason run, the first in program history, Keane was elevated to Running Game Coordinator.
The 2018 season also saw the Aggies win their inaugural Big Sky Conference championship, thanks to the play of their offensive line. Under Keane's tutelage, one of the youngest lines in the Big Sky did a phenomenal job protecting quarterback Jake Maier by allowing the lowest number of sacks per game in the program's Big Sky era (0.86).
Additional new program records set by UC Davis in 2018, thanks to the members of UC Davis' line, include rushing yards (2,159), rushing TDs (27) and rushing attempts (447).
Keane returned to UC Davis after serving as offensive coordinator at the College of Idaho where he helped restart the Coyotes’ program in 2013 with former Aggie assistant coach Mike Moroski. He directed an offense that gained an impressive 4,190 total yards in just their first season in 2014 while averaging 25 points per game. The Coyotes improved on that the following season by amassing 4,514 yards and averaging 28.5 ppg.
Three of his offensive players were named to the All-Frontier Conference first team, including center Greg Dohmen who was College of Idaho’s first lineman to receive all-league honors in nearly 60 years. Keane, who assisted Moroski with offensive line duties at UC Davis in 2007, spent two years as a graduate assistant at Tulane before returning to UC Davis to coach the line from 2010-12.
Keane was a four-year letterwinner for UC Davis from 2003-06. He was the starting center for the Aggies’ monumental 20-17 upset at Stanford during his junior season, started 22 consecutive games during his final two seasons and became the first Aggie to twice win the Bob Oliver Award as the team’s “unsung hero”. He part of a line that allowed just 13 sacks in 419 passing plays in 2006.
Keane earned his undergraduate degree in psychology in 2006. He and his wife, Carrie, are parents to a son, Timothy.
