Football Coaching Staff Completed--Spring Practice Begins

Coach Clawson has filled the last vacancy in his coaching staff.  You may recall that Shannon Morrison, a co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach had left the University to go to Memphis.
The new defensive coach is Nick Monroe, who will coach safeties.  He has coached for six years at Colgate, which had a very strong I-AA program, and has spent most of his career on the defensive side of the ball.

I'm assuming the Mike Elko will take full control of the d-coordinator position, but there hasn't been any official word on that.  And, I never really thought about needing a coach just for the safeties, but what do I know.

Anyway, beyond that, Spring Practice opens up today.  The program lost a large number of players since last season, and spring practice will be important as the next set of players moves up.  The highest visibility position is clearly QB, where Aaron Pankratz, Matthew Shilz, Caleb Watkins and Kellen Pagel apparently have an open competition for the starting job.  The charts below will give a more complete picture on where replacements need to be made.