Ruff lands in Charlottesville
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Little more than a week
after
his stunning ouster as East
Carolina's head football coach, Ruffin McNeill has found his next
calling.
McNeill, an ECU alum, headed a list
of eight assistants added to the staff of newly-named Virginia head
coach Bronco Mendenhall on Saturday.
McNeill will serve as assistant head
coach and inside linebackers coach for the Cavaliers. He joins a staff
that includes wide receivers coach Marques Hagans, a holdover from the staff of former UVa coach
Mike London, and six assistants who served with Mendenhall at Brigham
Young.
The assistants accompanying
Mendenhall from Provo are Robert Anae (offensive coordinator/inside
receivers coach), Mark Atuaia (running backs coach), Jason Beck
(quarterbacks coach), Garett Tujague (offensive line coach), Nick Howell
(secondary coach) and Kelly Poppinga (special teams/outside linebackers
coach).
In addition to his coaching duties,
it is likely that McNeill factors heavily into Mendenhall's blueprint
for constructing a strong recruiting presence in the Carolinas,
Tidewater Virginia and other regional prep football talent reservoirs
that were heavily targeted by McNeill during his tenure at ECU.
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