JACKSON -- Millsaps College head football coach Mike DuBose announced today the hiring of two new football coaches for the upcoming season in Brett Borden as inside linebackers coach and Ronnie Wheat as outside linebackers coach.

Borden spent the last six months as the strength & conditioning coach and linebackers coach at Independence Community College in Independence, Kan., before joining the staff late last week. 

Prior to ICC, Borden coached at the University of North Alabama in 2007 and 2008 and was also a student assistant in 2006. The Lions went 11-1, winning the Gulf South Conference championship and advancing to the quarterfinals of the Division II Playoffs.

During his playing days, Borden was an all-state quarterback at Northeast Mississippi Junior college in 2002 and went on to play in the Mississippi Junior College All-Star Game in 2003. In 2004-05, he started at linebacker for the University of North Alabama. The Lions finished 11-3 in 2005 and reached the NCAA Division II semifinals.

Borden graduated from Phil Campbell High School in Alabama in 2002. His father is long time Alabama/Mississippi high school head coach Donald Borden.

Wheat was a former standout linebacker for Millsaps from 2004-07 and also helped out on the staff last year as a student assistant coach before being hired full-time.

During his playing days, Wheat was a three-year starter for former head coach David Saunders and current head coach Mike DuBose, where he was a two-time All-SCAC selection and 2006 D3football.com National Team of the Week nod.

He ended his career with 152 tackles, 18.0 tackles-for-loss, 4.5 sacks, nine pass breakups, five interceptions (two for touchdowns) and three fumble recoveries.

Wheat and Borden round out the hiring of four new position coaches in the last four months, giving DuBose an eight-man staff to work with for the 2009 campaign.