Any word on Defensive side coaches ?

[sportsart]

Josh Reardon, Central Michigan (class of 2006), defense

http://notredame.247sports.com/Arti...Notre-Dame-staff-as-graduate-assistants-72966

Reardon, whose primary focus in his first year at Notre Dame is with the defensive line, left his hometown of Sturgis, Mich., and walked on as a linebacker at Central Michigan University in 2001. His services on the second line weren’t needed, but he eventually earned a scholarship as a long-snapper. He earned a degree in physical education and stayed on with the Chippewas after graduating in 2004 as a student assistant working directly with co-defensive coordinator Bob Diaco, who holds the same position currently at Notre Dame.

Diaco turned around a CMU rushing defense that just two years earlier had ranked last in the Mid-American Conference. Under Diaco's watch, Central Michigan led the MAC, allowing only 113.7 rushing yards per contest.

Reardon was promoted to graduate assistant in 2006, Kelly’s third and final season at the helm at Central Michigan before taking the head job at Cincinnati. Reardon assisted with coaching the defensive line and inside linebackers. He toiled alongside linebackers coach Mike Elston, who now works with the Irish defensive line.

CMU went 10-4 in 2006, finishing the year with a victory over Middle Tennessee State in the Motor City Bowl. Reardon stayed in Mount Pleasant, Mich., through the 2007 season before coaching the defensive line in 2008, the secondary in 2009 and serving as defensive coordinator and secondary coach in 2010 at Football Championship Subdivision Sacred Heart in Connecticut.

In 2011, Reardon was outside linebackers coach at FCS Holy Cross and the defense held opponents to only 3.9 yards per carry last season.

 

[Pudge]

You are really STRANGE Fanbase ... Mr. Grinch.

Look ... we just had a really different PP era. He basically kept a odd collection of his predecessors' staff. Hank Hughes had a really good dozen PLUS years at DL where he took a lot of 2 star kids with potential and developed a solid DL year after year. Some pros. And a lot of good strong fast DEs. Shamar Stephen, after Kendall Reyes, may be his trophy products. Jon Wholley has a good future ... ahead of him. He proved to take the kids recruited (Sio Moore, Scott Lutrus, Lawrence Wilson, Greg Lloyd, Jory Johnson) and do a good job with them. Darrell Perkins? Seemed to not really have any previous connect to Edsall & we have improved, I think, to a solid CB position game and good safeties (Butler, Wreh-Wilson, Gratz, Howard (RIP), Byron Jones, Mack) and (T. Brown etc). Add in Cersosimo.

PP hardly ripples through that Edsall staff. Diaco has a string of connections over a 15 year period. Different. The Pasqualoni thing was weird. (see who I don't mention)

Defensively? I expect that same ground tread as with his Offensive hires. Some UVA maybe. Some CMU/Cincy/ND. The most fervent desire I have, and it's not to posture why these guys don't fit, is for REAL Florida/Georgia connections to speed skilled Defense.