New DB coach

sentient1z

sentient1z

New member
According to www.coachingsearch.com Nebraska has hired Terry Joseph, currently the DB coach/Recruiting Coordinator at Tennessee. He has ties to Louisiana. If true, sounds like an interesting hire!

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Joseph's bio from the UT website:

Terry Joseph's defensive secondary unit helped the Vols finish among the nation's top 20 with 18 interceptions in 2010.
UT's 18 picks also were fourth in the SEC while tying for 19th overall in major college football, and 10 of those 18 interceptions helped spark Tennessee's 4-0 November run to a bowl game.

Only safety Janzen Jackson started every game, while Joseph matched five other consistently improving defenders among the three remaining secondary positions. Prentiss Waggner joined Jackson to earn All-SEC second team honors, and Marsalis Teague, Eric Gordon and Brent Brewer were among the key figures in Tennessee's defensive turnaround.

Joseph's mentorship also saw Waggner break the UT record for interceptions returned for touchdowns in a season with three in 2010.

Joseph also serves as recruiting coordinator under Derek Dooley, and the New Orleans native held those same duties the previous three seasons on Dooley's staff at Louisiana Tech. Joseph helped turn around a Bulldogs secondary unit that sliced its scoring defense average nearly in half by 2008. That's the year Tech won its first bowl game in 30 years at the Independence Bowl. The Bulldogs finished second in the WAC and played in a bowl game for only the third time since 1989.

Joseph also coordinated Tech's recruiting, and the 2009 class ranked second in the league. Rivals.com tabbed Joseph as the No. 4 non-BCS recruiter.

Joseph, 37, came to Tech after one graduate assistant season at LSU, where he worked under head coach Les Miles and defensive coordinator Bo Pelini.

Before that, Joseph gathered knowledge of the Louisiana high school football circuit -- especially south Louisiana -- thanks to his three seasons each as an assistant coach at both Archbishop Shaw and Destrehan high schools in the New Orleans area. Joseph was at Archbishop Shaw from 1999 through 2002, and then at Destrehan through 2005.

Joseph earned his bachelor's degree from Northwestern State in 1996. He was the 1995 Southland Conference Baseball Player of the Year and went on to four minor league playing seasons in the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres systems.

He is married to the former Amanda Gauthe of Destrehan, La., and they are the parents of daughters Taylor and Lynleigh.
Click to expand...
http://www.utsports....ph_terry00.html

 
Last edited by a moderator:
I told all of you it was going to be Terry Joseph! Oh wait...what I meant to say was I didn't know who he was until 5 minutes ago :)

On the surface, looks like a good hire.

 
Hold the phone.....

Tennessee assistant to NU?

Posted by: Steve Sipple on March 1, 2012 at 2:51PM CST

Terry Joseph, defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Tennessee, is set to join the Nebraska staff, according to Pete Roussel of CoachingSearch.com.

Here is Joseph's biography.

I talked to Pelini on Thursday morning. He said he hadn't made a hire. He said he would "maybe" have a hire in place by the start of spring drills March 10.

In 2009, Rivals.com rated Joseph as the No. 4 recruiter in the non-BCS ranks while he was at Louisiana Tech.

Pelini is looking to replace secondary coach Corey Raymond, who on Monday took a job at LSU after one season on the NU staff.
Click to expand...

Translation - the ink isn't dry on the new-hire docs yet, so we can't say anything official.

 
This may be a very good deal. What a quick hire. I think Bo quiets a lot of critics with this. And the speed of the hire makes it pretty obvious Bo had a plan all along.

 
Back
Top