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Dilfer - HC (assumed Play calling role on Offense)

Offense -
- OC- Alex Mortensen - 9 years Bama, 1 year LA Rams, 1 year Bham Iron
- TE Coach - Riley Jeffers - Ohio State Program Assistant, Lipscomb TE Coach. Was steller recruiter at Ohio State per tweets from the staff
- OL Coach - Eddie Gordon - Quality Control of OL at Georgia last few years
- RB Coach - Hindley Brigham - retained!!!!
- QB Coach - Nick Coleman - South Carolina Offensive Analyst, OC Northeast Mississippi (JC), Murry State
- WR Coach - Austin Appleby - Missouri St WR coach (former elite 11 QB), played at Florida/Purdue AAFL and time with Cowboys

Offensive Assistants -
- Braden Burkhardt - retained as RB assistant
- Grayson Bell - Offensive Recruiting Intern
- Jalen Harris - Offensive Analyst - Grad Assistant Arkansas, former Auburn player
- Danny Mitchell - Sr Offensive Analyst - San Jose State, San Diego, Vienna Vikings (European League of Football)
- Jamie Graham - Vandy alum, coached at Lipscomb with Dilfer for past 3 years as assistant
- Alan Ricard - Offensive Analyst - Super Bowl winning FB/DL from Ravens
- Taylor Dupuis - Sr Offensive Analyst - retained

Defense -
- DC - Sione Ta'ufo'ou - He was DC with Lipscomb, former head coach in high school. Worked with both Elite11 and was head of the TB12 camps (Tom Brady)
- DL Coach - Miguel Patrick - Ohio State defensive quality control
- Special Teams coach - Kenneth Gilstrap - in same role last 4 years at Middle Tenn
- DB Coach - Kenwick Thompson - associate head coach at UNLV in 2022. He has also served as defensive coordinator at ECU and Texas Southern.
- Stars/Nickels Coach - Earnest Hill - retained!

Defensive Assistants -
- Matthew Wright - Sr Defensive Analyst
- Danny Mitchell - Defensive Analyst
- Nathan West II - DB Assistant

Recruiting -
- Tristian Henderson (Retained) - Director of Recruiting
- Connor Koch - Director of Player Personnel - Played at Samford - Ole Miss Recruiting Specialist
- Abbye Brunson - Director of Recruiting Strategy - Masters in Sports Management, Former Miss State Cheerleader, Grad Assistant at Florida, from Vestavia Hills
- Scott Malinof - Recruiting coordinator

Strength and Sports Performance - All Retained
-Lyle Henley – Director of Sports Performance
-Jason Jones – Assistant Director of Sports Performance
-Bryant Novick – Associate Strength and Conditioning Coach
-Andrew Reinkemeyer – Strength and Conditioning Associate

Football Operations -
- Cole Peterson - Director Football Operations - Previous Asst Dir of Football Operations at Indiana. Former UAB grad assistant

Player Personnel -
- Matt McCants - AD of Athletic Performance - Retained!!

Trainer -
- Dan Springer - Head Athletic Trainer

Needed -
LB Coach

I wonder if Sione Ta'ufo'ou will come down from Lipscomb and join the staff?

(12-05-2022 09:53 AM)Bham Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder if Sione Ta'ufo'ou will come down from Lipscomb and join the staff?

I had been thinking same thing

The fact no Defensive staff announced makes me feel he is entertaining retaining some of ours

Don’t think there’s any question about the competence of the defensive staff. The question is do they share his vision

(12-05-2022 10:07 AM)linus Wrote: [ -> ]Don’t think there’s any question about the competence of the defensive staff. The question is do they share his vision

I would love them all back, but I also don't know who Dilfer would bring in

Looks like recruits are still tagging Coach Brigham as well. Would be stupid not to keep our RB coach.

Agreed

(12-05-2022 10:17 AM)blazerblazer Wrote: [ -> ]Looks like recruits are still tagging Coach Brigham as well. Would be stupid not to keep our RB coach.

IMO, Brigham and Tatum would be the 2 best bets to be reatined, as Dilfer signaled their units out for good performance. I am glad Tristan is staying!

Are any tagging coach Tatum?

(12-05-2022 10:17 AM)blazerblazer Wrote: [ -> ]Looks like recruits are still tagging Coach Brigham as well. Would be stupid not to keep our RB coach.

I mean, we want daddy to keep writing those checks.

footballscoop.com

https://footballscoop.com/news/an-update...-uab-staff

Just read this on Football Scoop per Doug Matthews.. Take it for what's it worth:

Arriving at UAB after building a Tennessee's Lipscomb Academy into a state high school power, Trent Dilfer immediately faced the tall task of building a staff as a first-time college head coach.

Sources have shared with FootballScoop a number of those hires, and they range from familiar faces for him to some up and coming coaching talent from the Big Ten and SEC filling support staff roles. A few of these have also been reported elsewhere.

We previously shared that the offensive coordinator role on Dilfer's staff will be Alex Mortensen. Mortensen is a former Arkansas and Samford quarterback who has spent the past few seasons as an analyst on Nick Saban's staff.

Reilly Jeffers, who has spent the past two seasons as a program assistant at Ohio State, will join the program in an offensive analyst role. Jeffers previously worked with Dilfer on the Lipscomb Academy staff where he coached the tight ends. He also previously spent time on the staff at FAU.

Jalen Harris, a graduate assistant at Arkansas and former Auburn player, is also expected to join the staff in an offensive analyst role.

Danny Mitchell, who spent last season leading the Vienna Vikings to a European League of Football Championship in his first season with the team, will also serve in an offensive analyst role sources have shared. Mitchell has previous coaching experience at San Jose State, San Diego, as well as a few other stops overseas.

Nick Coleman, an offensive analyst on staff at South Carolina, is expected to join Dilfer's staff as an offensive assistant. Prior to joining the Gamecocks staff, Coleman was the offensive coordinator at Northeast Mississippi CC (JC) and Murray State (FCS - KY).

On the defensive side of the ball, Dilfer is bringing another Ohio State staffer in Miguel Patrick. Patrick, who worked in a defensive quality control role for the Buckeyes, will be a defensive analyst for Dilfer and the Blazers.

Sorry for the same post Western, you beat me to it

added to top

Interesting he’s filling off field spots pretty quickly and retaining some of the old guard in pivotal positions. Keeping Henderson as recruiting coordinator is smart.

The longer it takes to name defensive people, the more I think it is UAB coaches staying

Bruce Feldman@BruceFeldmanCFB
SOURCE: Ohio State QC Miguel Patrick is expected to become the new defensive line coach at UAB under coach Trent Dilfer. Patrick won one state title as a HS head coach in Georgia; and two more as a DC.

DL was Kyle Tatum’s spot.

Dang it

Have we ever had “analysts”?