Longtime Philadelphia Eagles executive and former Penn head coach Harry Gamble passed away earlier this week, at the age of 83. Please keep his family in your prayers.
Denver Broncos: The Broncos and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio have agreed to a two-year contract extension.
Montana State: Receivers coach Brian Von Bergen has left the staff we are told.
Eastern Michigan: Taylor Stubblefield, who coached the receivers at Wake Forest last season, has accepted the receivers job.
Louisiana-Lafayette: Chad Washington of the Daily Advertiser is reporting that James Willis has decided to stay at UL. Willis was previously linked to a position on Jimbo Fisher's staff at Florida State.
University of Waterloo (Canada): Head Coach Joe Paopao has left his position to become the receivers coach for the BC Lions of the CFL.
Kansas City Chiefs: Brock Olivo has been added to the staff as an assistant special teams coach. Olivo spent the last two seasons at Coastal Carolina coaching the running backs and assisting with the special teams.
Arizona State: We can now confirm that West Virginia defensive coordinator Keith Patterson will join the Arizona State staff.
Oakland Raiders: The club announced Chris Beniol as assistant special teams coach and Vernon Stephens as assistant strength and conditioning coach today.
New Haven (D-II - CT): Chris Pincince has been introduced as the new head coach. Pincince has two previous stints at New Haven along with stops at Elon and Rhode Island as offensive coordinator.
Oberlin (D-III - OH): Oberlin has announced the promotion of Jay Anderson to the head coaching position. Anderson had been serving as the interim head coach since early December and served as the teams defensive coordinator during the season.
Oklahoma State: Former Sam Houston special teams coordinator Robby Discher will join the Oklahoma State staff working with both the offense and special teams. We also understand that Oklahoma State is no longer accepting applications for the offensive line grad assistant position (interviews & selection to come).
Virginia Tech: Sources tell us that former Stanford receiver Drew Terrell has accepted a grad assistant job at Virginia Tech.
West Georgia (D-II): West Georgia, located in Carrollton, GA is seeking qualified candidates to coach either linebackers or defensive line. Qualified candidates must have bachelors, 2-5 years of coaching experience, and be committed to following NCAA rules. This is a full time position with competitive salary and benefits. Candidates can email their resumes to (updated email address>) scottsymons100@gmail.com. Please no phone calls.
Atlanta Falcons: Per sources, former Baltimore Ravens tight ends coach Wade Harman will join the Falcons' staff.
Utah State: Utah State has announced that Arizona State corners / special teams coordinator Joe Lorig will join the staff as linebackers coach.
Southern University (FCS - LA):Southern University is looking for a Division II/NAIA opponent for a home game and will pay guarantee money. The available date is October 18, 2014. If interested please contact Director of Athletics William Broussard at will_broussard@subr.edu or 225-771-5930
Cleveland Browns: The Browns have announced the addition of former Baltimore Ravens running backs coach Wilbert Montgomery, as well as ten additional coaches to the staff (most of which we've already touched on). Just to recap; George DeLeone (assistant OL), Richard Hightower (offensive QC), Dowell Loggains (QBs), Mike McDaniel (WRs), Andy Moeller (OL), Tony Tuioti (defensive QC), Anthony Weaver (DL), Chris DiSanto (assistant S&C), Derik Keyes (assistant S&C), Paul Ricci (S&C)
Minnesota Vikings: The Vikings have announced their full coaching staff including Mike Priefer (retained from the previous staff), and defensive line coach Andre Patterson (which we reported yesterday). The rest of the staff includes; George Edwards (DC), Jerry Gray (DBs), Jonathan Gannon (assistant DBs), Adam Zimmer (LBs), Robb Akey (assistant DL), Drew Petzing (coaching assistant), Norv Turner (OC), Scott Turner (QBs), Kirby Wilson (RBs), Jeff Davidson (OL), George Stewart (WRs), Kevin Stefanski (TEs), Klint Kubiak (assistant WRs), Ryan Ficken (assistant ST), and Jeff Howard (defensive assistant).
Iowa State: Shane Dowty has been added to the staff as a defensive grad assistant. Dowty graduated from Iowa in 2010 and spent the past two seasons on staff at the College of the Desert (JC - CA) coaching the defensive backs after spending a year as an assistant at St. Ambrose (NAIA - IA).
Eastern Michigan: As we previously reported, Grand Valley (D-II - MI) linebackers coach Chris Simpson has been announced as the new outside linebackers coach at EMU. Eastern has also announced the addition of Jay Peterson to coach the running backs. Peterson most recently served as defensive coordinator / linebackers coach at Miami (OH).
Buffalo Bills: The Bills have announced that Rob Moore will coach the receivers. Moore spent the past four seasons in the same role at Syracuse.
Temple: Adam DiMichele, who served as a grad assistant working with the offense least season, has been promoted to receivers coach.
Duke: As we told you in early January, Scottie Montgomery will be named offensive coordinator at Duke in the coming days per Laura Keeley who covers Duke football.
North Carolina: Larry Fedora has hired Larry Porter as running backs coach per sources. Porter coached the running backs at Texas this past season and at Arizona State prior to that and was head coach at Memphis prior to that. Inside Carolina is reporting the same.
Georgia: As has been expected, Mike Ekeler will be the final staff hire. Seth Emerson reported the hire earlier this morning, and we can confirm as well.
Kansas Wesleyan (NAIA): Vince Fillipp has joined the staff as defensive coordinator / defensive line coach, and John Michaletti is the new special teams coordinator / defensive backs coach. Fillipp spent last season coaching the defensive line at Earlham College (D-III - IN), and Michaletti comes from St. Ambrose where he coached the defensive backs. There are currently no open positions on staff.
Paine College (D-II - GA): Head coach Greg Ruffin has announced the additions of Vincent Dancy and Jacob Mathis to the full time staff. Dancy will serve as the defensive coordinator and Mathis (who enters his second season on staff, his first as a full time coach), will coach the safeties.