DYNAMITE KUHN
DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL OPERATIONS
EMAIL: danielkuhn@isu.edu
COLLEGE: Nicholls State (2003)
AT A GLANCE:
· Began career in training camp with the Buffalo Bills
· In Austin, TX was part of an expansion front office of an Arena Football League franchise
· Has spent time in the Ivy League, Big Sky Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, and Mid America Conference
· Helped Georgia Southern successfully transition from FCS to FBS Football
· Has served on five different college all-star coaching staffs: Texas vs. the Nation (2011), East West Shrine Game (2013, 2014, 2016), and the FCS Tropic Bowl (2017)
· Built rosters in the Spring League, (which became the USFL) and the Alabama Airborne of the now defunct Major League Football
CAREER BACKGROUND:
Season Team/School Position/Title
2001 Buffalo Bills NFL Pro Personnel Intern
2003-2006 Austin Wranglers AFL Director of Operations
2006-2009 University of Pennsylvania Director of Football Operations
2009 Portland State University Director of Video/Football Operations
2011-2012 Hartford Colonials UFL Chief of Staff
2013 Georgia Southern University Executive Assistant to Head Coach
2014-2016 Tennessee State University Director of Football Operations
2017-2018 Brevard College Recruiting Coordinator
2019 Howard University Director of Video/Football Operations
2019-2020 Houston Roughnecks XFL Director of Football Operations
2020-2021 Spring League Conquerors Pro Personnel
2022 Alabama Airborne MLFB Pro Personnel
2023 Idaho State University Special Teams Quality Control/Assistant Football Ops
2024 Idaho State University Director of Football Operations
COACH DYNO:
A veteran of both college and professional football, Daniel “Dynamite” Kuhn first arrived in Pocatello prior to training camp in August 2023. Last season he served as Special Teams Quality Control and was elevated by Cody Hawkins to Director of Football Operations in January 2024 with fiduciary responsibilities, coordinating team travel, and day-to-day logistics of the football program.
Most recently Dynamite spent time in the 2020 version of the XFL serving on the league wide competition committee as Director of Football Operations under June Jones for the undefeated Houston Roughnecks. He has spent time as Director of Football Operations on the East Coast (University of Pennsylvania, Howard University, Hartford Colonials of the United Football League) on the West Coast (Portland State under Jerry Glanville), and worked in D-III where he served as Recruiting Coordinator for Brevard College in North Carolina from 2017-2019.
While at Georgia Southern Dynamite had construction oversight of a football specific endzone complex, helped the program transition from FCS to FBS, and was part of the staff that defeated Florida in Gainesville. At Tennessee State, Dynamite negotiated a nonconference game against Georgia State and orchestrated a Pro Day that had more TSU players drafted than any other school in Tennessee with back-to-back multiple FCS draft picks. Recruiting classes under his tenure at Penn accounted for Ivy League titles in 3 out of the next 4 years He began his career as a pro personnel intern with the Buffalo Bills.
In addition, Dynamite has served on five different all-star coaching staffs including the NFL affiliated East West Shrine Game on three separate occasions (2013, 2014 opposite future Bengals colleague Keith Price , 2016) working with future NFL/CFL players OT Terron Armstead, OG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, and quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo, Collin Klein, and Vernon Adams. A native of Zachary, Louisiana he graduated from Nicholls State University, where he was a competitive powerlifter, and added a Certificate of Leadership from e-Cornell in 2022. He is a proud member of the Hispanic Texas High School Football Coaches Association.
