BUIES CREEK, N.C. -Campbell's football program announced it will hold its annual Coaching Clinic starting on Friday evening, March 19, and continuing through Saturday morning, March 20. The two sessions will have guest coaches Paul Hamilton, the head coach of Brevard College, and Kevin Steele, the defensive coordinator from Clemson, besides the coaching staff from Campbell's football program.

The Football Coaching Clinic will be a free clinic offered to all coaches in the area at the Campbell Football Fieldhouse.

The clinic will begin on Friday at 7 p.m. Snacks and drinks will be provided for those in attendance. The first day features Hamilton and the Campbell offensive coaching staff discussing issues including option football. The CU defensive staff will also be present to talk about defensive issues and formations. The session is expected to last until 9 p.m.

The clinic will continue on Saturday morning at 8 a.m. Coffee and doughnuts will be provided for those in attendance. The second day features Hamilton again discussing option football from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Coach Kevin Steele will then have the floor from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. to talk about defensive football and "The Clemson Way".

Campbell's head strength coach Andrew Carter and head football athletic trainer Brandon Sherrell will also be present during the two-day clinic to talk about issues in their respectful areas.

The Camels will continue the day of action and are expected to conduct an inter-squad scrimmage at Barker-Lane Stadium/Ed Gore Field at 1:30 p.m. that afternoon, March 20.

For more information please call 910-893-1974. An information sheet and bios on the two guest coaches can be found by clicking the pdf attached to this article.

The team's spring game is set for April 10 of this year as part of Campbell's Hall of Fame Weekend at noon. The Hall of Fame Golf Tournament is set for Friday, April 9 at Keith Hills Country Club.

Kevin Steele, who is the brother of head Campbell football coach Dale Steele, brings 24 years of college coaching experience at the Football Bowl Series level and four additional years in the National Football League. He has coached under former National Champion Head Coaches Tom Osborne, Nick Saban, Bobby Bowden and Johnny Majors. The native of Dillon, S.C. has coached in 17 bowl games, including eight appearances in bowls that are now considered Bowl Championship level games. He has been part of 11 teams that have finished in the top 20 of national polls at five different schools. He has been an assistant on six different teams at four different programs that have finished in the top 10 nationally in scoring defense.

Most recently, Steele has worked as the associate head coach and defensive coordinator at the University of Clemson. The Tigers defense ranked second in the ACC in sacks with 36 and placed 15th nationally in turnovers forced with 30. Prior to his stint at Clemson, Steele worked for two years at reigning national champion Alabama. He was the defensive coordinator at Alabama in 2007 before assuming the title of Associate Head Coach and Head Coach of the Defense in 2008. In 2008 the Crimson Tide finished the regular season with a 12-0 record and won the Western Division Championship of the Southeastern Conference. Steele spent four season as the executive head coach and linebackers coach at Florida State under Bobby Bowden (2003-06), helping the Seminoles to three top 25 finishes and two ACC Championships before heading to Alabama. The Seminoles finished with a 10-3 mark his first year in Tallahassee and ranked 10th in the nation in scoring defense. In 2004, Florida State was 15th in the final AP poll and the team finished in the top 10 in rushing defense, total defense and scoring defense. Steele served as the head coach at Baylor University from 1999-02 before moving to Florida State. He is University of Tennessee graduate and served two coaching tenures with the Volunteers. He began his coaching career as graduate assistant under Johnny Majors. He worked as the recruiting coordinator and linebackers coach at New Mexico State (1983). From 1984-86, Steele was a member of the coaching staff at Oklahoma State. He returned to Tennessee as a defensive backs coach in 1987. From 1989-94, Steele worked at the University of Nebraska. Steele then moved on and worked in the NFL for the Carolina Panthers from 1995-98 as linebackers coach.

Paul Hamilton just completed his fourth year at the helm of Brevard College. The Tornados went 7-4 last season and finished one win from tying the school record for wins. Hamilton brings with him 28 years of coaching experience at both Division I and Division II levels with 11 of those years as head coach. Hamilton began his collegiate coaching career at the Citadel in 1981, where he coached receivers. He then moved on to East Tennessee State, where he coached the receivers in 1983 and the quarterbacks in 1984-1985 and 1986-87. Hamilton coached the quarterbacks and served as the offensive coordinator at Wofford College from 1988-89. From 1990-96 he worked at the U.S. Air Force Academy. During his last three seasons, he called the offensive plays for the Falcons in addition to serving as the quarterbacks coach. The Air Force was able to compete in four bowl games during Hamilton's tenure and ranked second nationally in rushing and in the top 25 in total offense four times. Hamilton then moved on and worked as the head coach of East Tennessee State from 1997-2003. During his first season at ETSU, Hamilton's team led the Southern Conference in total offense, total defense and boasted the league's Male Athlete of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year. The team's 7-4 record in 1997 is tied for the second highest win total ever by a Buccaneer squad and gave Hamilton the best record ever for a first-year head coach at ETSU. Hamilton then moved on and coached Elon during the 2004 and 2005 seasons. In 2006, Hamilton returned to the Air Force Academy to coach fullbacks under former college coach, Fisher DeBerry. Hamilton graduated from Appalachian State in 1981 where he lettered for three years as a quarterback under DeBerry. Hamilton earned his master's degree in secondary education from the Citadel in 1986.