Colorado legend Darian Hagan has a brand new function with the soccer program.
On Friday, CU formally introduced a number of workers positions, together with the brand new duties for Hagan, who would be the government director of group engagement and outreach and a soccer ambassador. Hagan can even work as an analyst with the working backs.
Hagan quarterbacked CU to its solely nationwide title in 1990 and is a member of the CU Athletics Corridor of Fame. He has spent the previous 18 years engaged on the soccer workers, principally as a coach.
An offensive assistant below former head coach Gary Barnett in 2005, Hagan coached the Buffs’ working backs from 2006-10 below Dan Hawkins. He then moved into the director of participant personnel function from 2011-12 below Jon Embree and was the director of participant improvement from 2013-15 below Mike MacIntyre.
In 2016, MacIntyre added Hagan to the teaching workers to mentor working backs. Hagan has coached the working backs the previous seven seasons, for MacIntyre, Mel Tucker after which Karl Dorrell.
New CU head coach Deion Sanders has revamped the teaching workers this season, together with hiring Gary “Flea” Harrell as working backs coach. That led to Hagan taking a brand new function. Hagan is the one on-field assistant from the earlier workers nonetheless with CU.
Different workers positions introduced Friday embody:
Patrick Hill, defensive tackles coach: Hill’s rent, reported earlier this month, completes the on-field assistant workers. The opposite 9 assistants have been all introduced in December. Hill spent this previous season as a defensive analyst at LSU. A graduate of Concordia-Chicago, Hill started his teaching profession at his alma mater, from 2008-12. He has additionally coached at Adrian Faculty, Angelo State, Concordia-Ann Arbor, West Virginia State, James Madison, Ferrum Faculty, Morehead State, Japanese Michigan, Angelo State, Central Oklahoma, Higher Iowa and Birmingham-Southern.
Maurice Sims, power and conditioning coordinator: He has been on the job since final month. He was the power and conditioning coordinator at Jackson State final 12 months and spent the earlier two years (2020-21) because the affiliate director of power and conditioning at Georgia. He’s additionally labored at North Carolina, Military, Indiana, North Carolina A&T, Bethune-Cookman and Tennessee.
Energy and conditioning assistants: 4 assistants have been introduced, together with Tersoo Uhaa, the assistant head coach of power and conditioning. He spent the previous three years in the identical function for two-time nationwide champion Georgia. Earlier than that, he labored with the Texas Tech males’s basketball workforce. Different power and conditioning assistants are Stephen Houston, Brandon Reyes and Rendrick Taylor. Houston was an assistant at Purdue the previous two seasons. Reyes spent final season at Purdue and the earlier two years at Military. Taylor was at Clark Atlanta College this previous 12 months and in addition labored at North Carolina State and Clemson, his alma mater.
High quality management: Vincent Dancy, Michael Pollock and Trevor Reilly have all been employed as high quality management analysts. All three hires have beforehand been reported and all three have been working for the Buffs since final month. Dancy, the top coach at Mississippi Valley State the final 5 years, will work with the protection. Pollock, who spent final season as Sanders’ particular assistant at Jackson State, will work with the offense. And, Reilly, a graduate assistant at Jackson State final 12 months, will work with CU’s particular groups. Reilly performed towards CU throughout his profession at Utah earlier than being chosen within the seventh spherical of the 2014 NFL Draft and spending 5 years within the NFL.
Miscellaneous: A number of different administrators and division heads have been additionally named, together with Rodney Forsett (chief of workers), David Kelly (basic supervisor), Reggie Calhoun (director of soccer operations), Craig Campanozzi (director of sports activities video), James Chaney (director of participant improvement), Darius Darden-Field (director of recruiting), and Corey Phillips (director of participant personnel).
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Final week, former CU line of defense coach and interim defensive coordinator Gerald Chatman was employed as an analyst at LSU, basically switching spots with Hill. Chatman spent the 2021 season as an analyst at LSU earlier than becoming a member of the Buffs a 12 months in the past. … A number of of CU’s assistants from final 12 months have discovered new jobs, together with tight ends coach Clay Patterson (identical function at South Florida) and offensive line coach Kyle DeVan (identical function at Charlotte). Three of CU’s coaches from final 12 months are actually working with the USFL’s Houston Gamblers, per the USFL Community: Chris Wilson (defensive coordinator), Brett Maxie (defensive backs) and Jeff Good (linebackers/high quality management).