Some shifting to Pitt’s coaching staff (hat tip Jeff/BurghGuy68).

Pitt assistant head coach Bob Junko, who has coached the defensive tackles the last nine years, will now serve as recruiting coordinator. In addition to his assistant head coach duties, he will also continue to serve as an overall defensive coach.

Greg Gattuso, who joined Pitt last year as tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator, will now coach the defensive line.

Pitt defensive ends coach Charlie Partridge, who added special teams to his responsibilities last year, has been named special teams coordinator.

Additionally, Wannstedt announced the appointments of two new graduate
assistant coaches. Brian Angelichio, previously the offensive coordinator at
Ithaca College, has been named the offensive graduate assistant and will also
coach the tight ends. Jeff Hafley, formerly an assistant at the University of
Albany, will serve as the defensive graduate assistant and have coaching
responsibility with the secondary.

“As I said a year ago, I believe we have as good a coaching staff as anyone in college football,” Wannstedt said. “We are always looking for ways to make ourselves more efficient and effective, and these adjustments help us accomplish that. As a result, we have a greater emphasis on special teams, we more effectively utilize Bob’s recruiting strengths and we put Greg’s defensive line knowledge to use by focusing him on that position. We additionally have added two quality young graduate assistants in Brian Angelichio and Jeff Hafley.”

Not sure what the moves actually mean, other than that Bob Junko will probably work on more recruiting stuff and possibly give him time to recuperate from his surgery ahead of spring practice. Interesting that the graduate assistants were both from NY. Seems to be an area of the country that Coach Wannstedt wants to further mine for recruiting.

Also, there was the Scout.com combine, and this story on it. There are also full reports on what the kids numbers were.

While talking camps and combines and football, there’s this story about how coaching is a year-round thing with recruiting and everything else. That would include the Nike Camp in Allentown this past weekend. The one that Coach Wannstedt even attended.

In college football, the offseason has constricted to a few slivery weeks a year, and it’s only going to get worse. From bowl games to recruiting, junior days to summer camps, coaches find themselves with less time — both on field and off. Still, many are eager to commit to weekends like this.

Tiller was among the more than 20 college coaches attending the the Nike Coach of the Year clinic at the Holiday Inn Fogelsville. Former Northern Lehigh coach Jim Tkach operates the the three-day clinic, one of 20 across the country presided over by former Pittsburgh coach Johnny Majors.

Joining Tiller from the stable of Nike-contracted coaches were Miami’s Larry Coker and Connecticut’s Randy Edsall (Georgia Tech’s Chan Gailey was scheduled to appear but could not make it). In addition, Majors and Tkach (whose son Tyler is headed to Pitt) wrangled Panthers head coach Dave Wannstedt and offensive coordinator Matt Cavanaugh, even though they’re sponsored by adidas.

I didn’t know Majors was involved at all. I just figured this was a favor to Tkach, and another way to make inroads into the Eastern part of Pennsylvania.