Petersen departs La. Tech for Pirates
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On the eve of officially going on
the payroll on New Year's Day as East Carolina's head football coach,
Scottie Montgomery swung into action a day early on Thursday by tapping
the staff of former ECU coach Skip Holtz for an offensive coordinator
and quarterbacks coach.
Tony Petersen, one of
34 college football assistant coaches nominated for the 2015 Broyles
Award, will bring offensive coaching skills to the Pirates that helped
Louisiana Tech average more than 37 points per game and record
consecutive nine-win seasons and back-to-back bowl
victories in 2014 and 2015.
Among a litany of
notable offensive accomplishments during the Bulldogs' emergence as a
Conference USA power was Petersen's development of standout quarterbacks
Cody Sokol and Jeff Driskel.
Petersen's portfolio
includes 25 years of coaching experience. He joined Holtz in Shreveport
in 2013 after serving three years as offensive coordinator at Marshall,
his alma mater. His previous stops included South Dakota, Iowa State and
Minnesota.
"His experience and
background is defined by a consistent high level of production and we
are thrilled about his desire to be at East Carolina," Montgomery said
in a news release.
According to
a report in the Shreveport Times,
Petersen made a base salary of $200,000 last season and was the
second-highest paid offensive coordinator in C-USA. It would be
reasonable to assume that Petersen will received a meaningful boost in
income for making the move to Greenville.
Petersen joins an ECU
staff
that began taking shape two days
before Christmas when Montgomery announced the hiring of his first five
assistants:
• Defensive coordinator
Kenwick Thompson (previously served as
Vanderbilt associate head coach and linebackers coach)
• Defensive line coach
Deke Adams (previously served in the same role at
South Carolina)
• Wide receivers coach
Phil McGeoghan (previously served in the same role for the Miami
Dolphins)
• Secondary coach Rick
Smith (previously served as defensive coordinator and secondary coach on
former ECU coach Ruffin McNeill's staff)
• Assistant athletics
director for football operations Terrell Smith (previously served as
director of football operations at
Duke)
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