From Stuart Mandel of Sports Illustrated.
And ESPN.com’s Brian Bennett confirms:
The new additions are Todd Dodge as quarterbacks coach, Spencer Leftwich as offensive line coach and Tony Dews as tight ends coach.
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Leftwich has coaches offensive lines for 20 years and worked in that position at Tulsa under Graham. He was also at North Texas from 2007-09.Dews comes over from Michigan, where he served as Rich Rodriguez’s wide receivers coach. Dews also coached receivers at West Virginia in 2007, and is the fourth member of the staff — including Graham — who had served as a Mountaineers assistant under Graham.
In addition, Graham has installed Shawn Griswold as Pitt’s strength and conditioning coach. Griswold served that role at Tulsa from 2004-10.
That does mean that Buddy Morris is out as Pitt’s Strength & Conditioning Coach. Though, I half expect him to return in another couple years.
UPDATE: Here’s Pitt’s official press release on Graham’s Coaching Staff.
New Pitt head football coach Todd Graham has filled eight of the nine vacancies on his coaching staff. The current members of Graham’s staff, and their positional assignments, include:
Paul Randolph: executive associate head coach, co-defensive coordinator, defensive line
Calvin Magee: assistant head coach, co-offensive coordinator, running backs
Mike Norvell: co-offensive coordinator, wide receivers, director of recruiting
Keith Patterson: defensive coordinator, linebackers
Tony Dews: tight ends
Todd Dodge: quarterbacks
Tony Gibson: cornerbacks, recruiting coordinator
Spencer Leftwich: offensive line
Additionally, Graham named Shawn Griswold the director of strength and conditioning for Pitt football.
Brief bios for all the hires are further down the release.
If only they knew how many coaches pounced on Pitt recruits the second wannstedt was fired. The whole thing is sleazy but thats the way it works. Coaches jobs and futures rely on these 18 year old kids.
I’m still worried about the defensive staff…seems weak to me. We’ll see, though…it may work. The offense is gonna be sooooo much more potent than any in the Big East (save maybe WVU, that will be an interesting match-up obviously) that I think the defense as merely a stop-gap for a highly productive offense might work…until more Big East teams move to a high powered offense…We’ll see