He was hired as the head women's basketball coach at Southern Nazarene University, where his team won the NAIA national championship in 1989.

From OBU he was the coach at University of Texas-Pan American then back to Oklahoma where he served as an assistant to Kelvin Sampson at the University of Oklahoma until Sampson was found to have committed numerous NCAA violations.

[3] After an investigation of the entire coaching staff, Hoffman was cleared by the NCAA of any wrongdoing,[4] and parted ways with the program.

Hoffman won his 400th game as a men's college coach when Mercer defeated Lipscomb University on January 26, 2013.

[10] Hoffman and Mercer President William D. Underwood are both graduates of Oklahoma Baptist University.