Willingham goes from Cardinal to Irish

GENERAL

Men's basketball -- Albany (New York) re-assigned head coach Scott Beeten and selected Will Brown as interim head coach for the remainder of the season.

Football -- Bobby Lamb was elevated to head coach at Furman to succeed Bobby Johnson. For the past three years, Lamb has been quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator ... Hillsdale hired Keith Otterbein as head coach to succeed Dave Dye. Otterbein has been an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Ball State ... Marty Schaetzle was awarded head coaching duties at Mercyhurst. Schaetzle, who replaces Joe Kimball, has been an assistant at Bucknell for the past five seasons, most recently serving as offensive coordinator ... Lee Brown was announced as head coach at Cheyney. Brown was secondary coach at Mount Senario College ... San Diego State added Tom Craft as head coach. Craft spent from 1994 to 1996 as offensive coordinator at the school and has been head coach at Palomar College (California) ... Western Carolina hired Kent Briggs as head coach to replace Bill Bleil. Briggs a defensive coordinator at Connecticut for the past year, was an assistant coach at Western Carolina for eight years ... Steve Spurrier resigned as head coach at Florida. Spurrier guided the program to a 122-27-1 record, six Southeastern Conference titles and a national championship in 1996. Florida appointed Ron Zook as Spurrier's successor. Zook has been defensive coordinator with the NFL's New Orleans Saints for two years and formerly was defensive coordinator at Florida ... Georgia Tech hired Chan Gailey as head coach. Gailey has been offensive coordinator with the NFL's Miami Dolphins for the past two years ... Chris Meidt, an assistant coach and offensive coordinator at Bethel (Minnesota) for the last seven years, was named head coach at St. Olaf ... St. Francis (Pennsylvania) added Dave Opfar as head coach. Opfar, who has been defensive coordinator at Washington and Jefferson for the past three seasons, replaces Dave Jaumotte ... North Alabama hired Mark Hudspeth as head coach to succeed Bill Hyde. Hudspeth spent the 2001 season as offensive coordinator at Navy ... Bobby Johnson assumed duties as head coach at Vanderbilt. Johnson, who replaces Woody Widenhofer, has spent the past eight seasons as head coach at Furman ... Arkansas State chose Steve Roberts as head coach. For the last two years, Roberts has worked as head coach at Northwestern State ... Wayne W. Hicks was appointed head coach at Lenoir-Rhyne. Most recently, Hicks has been associate head coach and defensive coordinator at North Carolina A&T ... Indiana selected Gerry DiNardo as head coach to replace Cam Cameron. Last year, DiNardo, who formerly was head coach at LSU and Vanderbilt, coached the XFL's Birmingham Bolts ... Mississippi Valley State named Willie Totten as head coach ... Merrimack awarded head coaching duties to Gerry Sullivan ... Buddy Teevens, offensive coordinator and tight ends coach at Florida last season, was named as head coach at Stanford. Teevens replaces Tyrone Willingham ... Ellis Johnson was awarded a one-year contract extension through the 2006 season as head coach at Citadel. Johnson has guided the program since December 2000.

Football assistants -- Auburn's Noel Mazzone resigned as offensive coordinator, and John Lovett resigned as defensive coordinator ... Kansas named Dave Doeren as linebackers coach, Dave Borbely as offensive line coach and Bill Young as defensive coordinator. Doeren has been secondary coach and recruiting coordinator at Montana for the past two seasons and Borbely has spent the last four seasons as offensive line coach at Notre Dame. Young served as defensive line coach for the NFL's Detroit Lions during the 2001 season ... Thom Kaumeyer was hired as defensive coordinator at San Diego State. Most recently, Kaumeyer has worked as defensive quality control coach with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons ... Joker Phillips was added as running backs coach at South Carolina ... La Salle chose Phil Longo as associate head coach and offensive coordinator ... California appointed George Cortez as offensive coordinator and Dave Ungerer as special teams coach ... Ed Rifilato resigned as defensive coordinator at Idaho ... Kevin Rogers was awarded duties as quarterbacks coach at Virginia Tech ... Arkansas State added Kevin Corless as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, Jack Curtis as co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach, Tate Behne as tight ends coach, Doug Ruse as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Darren Hiller as offensive line coach, Danté Wright as wide receivers coach, Kevin Peoples as defensive line coach, Tony Gilbert as cornerbacks coach and David Gunn as running backs coach. Corless, Curtis, Behne, Ruse, Hiller, Wright and Peoples have most recently been assistants at Northwestern State. Gilbert was an assistant at Central Arkansas and Gunn has spent the past five seasons as head coach at Little Rock McClellan (Arkansas) High School ... Joe D'Allesandris, Tommie Robinson and David Wilson were hired as assistants at Georgia Tech. D'Allesandris has been offensive line coach at Duke since 1997, Robinson fulfilled responsibilities as running backs coach at Oklahoma State last season and Wilson has worked at Mississippi State for the past five seasons, most recently as coordinator of football operations. The school also retained Bill O'Brien as offensive coordinator and Ted Roof and Glenn Spencer as defensive coaches ... Dave Baldwin was named as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Baylor, replacing Greg Meyer, who resigned. Baldwin spent last season as offensive coordinator at Cincinnati ... West Virginia's Jeff Casteel and Todd Graham were elevated to co-defensive coordinators. Casteel will retain duties as defensive line coach and Graham will continue as linebackers coach ... Elon hired Will Holthouser as defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach to succeed Morris Starr. Holthouser, who formerly worked in the same capacity at the school during the 1998 and 1999 seasons, has been defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Chattanooga for the past two years ... Ken Niumatalolo was selected as assistant head coach and offensive line coach at Navy. For the past three seasons, Niumatalolo has been tight ends coach and has assisted with the kickoff return unit at UNLV ... North Alabama appointed Gwaine Mathews as defensive coordinator, Kenny Edenfield as offensive coordinator and Kelly Causey as defensive line coach. For the past three years, Mathews has been defensive coordinator at Delta State and Edenfield served as tight ends and special teams coach at Tulsa during the 2001 season. Causey has worked as head coach at St. Martin (Mississippi) High School for the past three years ... Bobby Petrino was named as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Auburn. Petrino, an assistant with the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars for the past three seasons, replaces Noel Mazzone ... Cincinnati will not renew the contracts of receivers coach Tyrone Dixon, linebackers coach Andy Hendel and defensive line coach O'Neill Gilbert ... Florida appointed Larry Fedora as running backs coach, Joe Wickline as offensive line coach, Red Anderson as defensive line coach, Mike Woodford as defensive backs coach and Ed Zaunbrecher as offensive coordinator. Dwayne Dixon will continue as receivers coach and Jerry Odom will retain responsibilities as linebackers coach. Fedora and Wickline have been assistants at Middle Tennessee State, and Woodford has served as an assistant with the NFL's New Orleans Saints. Zaunbrecher most recently worked as offensive coordinator at Marshall, while Anderson has been an administrator with Gator Boosters, Inc. for seven seasons ... Bill Keopple was hired as defensive line coach at Tulsa. Keopple has been in private business for the past two years and formerly was defensive line coach at Arkansas in 1999-00 ... Notre Dame added Bill Diedrick as offensive coordinator, Kent Baer as defensive coordinator, Buzz Preston as running backs coach, Mike Denbrock as tight ends and offensive tackles coach, John McDonell as centers and guards coach for the offensive line and Phil Zacharias as defensive ends coach. Greg Mattison will continue as defensive line coach. Diedrick, Baer, Preston, Denbrock, McDonell and Zacharias have been assistants at Stanford ... David Oliver was appointed as offensive coordinator at Southern. For the past five years, Oliver has served as special teams and tight ends coach at Tulane ... Louisiana-Monroe elevated Tommy Condell to offensive coordinator. Condell, who replaces Stan Humphries, was special teams coordinator and tight ends coach this past season. The school also announced that offensive line coach Chris Truax resigned after three seasons ... Mississippi added Reggie Herring as defensive coordinator, replacing Don Lindsey. For the past eight years, Herring has coached at Clemson, most recently working as defensive coordinator ... BYU chose Steve Kaufusi as defensive line coach. Kaufusi, who has been an assistant at Utah since 1994, succeeds the retiring Tom Ramage ... Jamie Snider was awarded duties as offensive coordinator, Curtis Walker was named defensive coordinator and Kevin Brown was added as quarterbacks coach at Coastal Carolina ... Northwestern State appointed John Nagle and Chris Truax as assistant coaches ... Portland State chose Eric Reid as offensive line coach ... Rich McGeorge was hired as offensive line coach at Duke to replace Joe D'Alessandris. McGeorge formerly coached at the school from 1981-82 and 1987-89. ... Tulane added Eric Schumann as defensive coordinator.

Men's and women's ice hockey -- Wisconsin head men's coach Jeff Sauer announced plans to resign at the end of the season. Sauer has led the program to two national championships since assuming head coaching responsibilities in 1982.

Men's and women's golf -- Mark Vass assumed responsibilities as head men's coach at Heidelberg. Vass, who replaced Larry Shank, serves as football wide receivers coach and equipment coordinator at the school.

Men's and women's lacrosse -- Eugene McCabe was selected as head men's lacrosse and assistant football coach at Hamilton. McCabe, who replaced Jayme Block, has been an assistant lacrosse coach at Washington and Lee for three years and worked as football quarterbacks coach, running backs coach and recruiting coordinator last season.

Men's and women's lacrosse assistants -- Franklin and Marshall chose Christian Zwickert as assistant men's coach. Since last spring, Zwickert has been head coach for the German national team for the 2001 European Championships ... Kevin Warne assumed responsibilities as assistant men's coach at Delaware. Warne was an assistant men's coach and interim head coach at Merchant Marine during the 2000-01 season.

Men's soccer assistant -- Duke's John Barrett resigned as an assistant coach, effective June 30.

Women's soccer -- Todd Yelton was named as head coach at Samford.

Women's soccer assistant -- Jamie Woods was named as an assistant at Texas Tech. Woods replaces Amy Dyksterhuis.

Softball -- Bob Bunnell assumed additional responsibilities as head coach at Franklin and Marshall to succeed Kathryn Kroupa. Bunnell also fulfills responsibilities as athletics director at the school and formerly served as a head baseball coach at Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis, Philadelphia Sciences and Kenyon ... Mitch Hanson resigned as head coach at North Dakota State. The school selected Darren Mueller, an assistant coach, as Hanson's interim successor. Hanson has guided the program since 1995 and led the squad to an NCAA Division II national championship in 2000.

Softball assistant -- Franklin and Marshall added Jennifer Rothrock as an assistant.

Men's and women's tennis -- Sasha Schmid was hired as head women's coach at Stetson. From 1998 through 2000, Schmid was an assistant women's coach at Iowa ... Pablo Montana was named as head women's coach at California (Pennsylvania). Montana has been an assistant men's coach at Vanderbilt since 1999 ... Pacific (Oregon) hired Alan Watts as head men's and women's coach to succeed Jim Pyle. Watts most recently has coached at Robert Morris and formerly was an assistant women's coach at Alabama and head coach at Greensboro.

Men's and women's tennis assistant -- Texas-Pan American added Elizabeth Middleton as an assistant.

Men's and women's track and field assistant -- DePaul chose David Kaiser as an assistant.

Men's and women's volleyball -- Wofford chose Corey Helle as head women's coach.

Men's and women's volleyball assistant -- Washington added Pat Stangle as an assistant women's coach and recruiting coordinator to succeed Rick McLaughlin. Stangle has been head coach at Seward County (Kansas) Community College for the past five years.

Athletic trainer -- Quinnipiac named Gordon Hurlbert as director of athletic training. Most recently, Hurlbert has been chief executive officer and director of sports medicine and rehabilitation services at two Florida therapy centers.

Assistant athletic trainer -- Nina Walker was chosen as an assistant athletic trainer at Quinnipiac. Walker was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at North Carolina.

Compliance -- Sandy Atkins assumed responsibilities as director of compliance at Troy State ... Mike Moleta was selected as director of compliance at Northern Arizona. Moleta has worked as director of compliance at Southern Mississippi for the last two years.

Sports information assistants -- Penn State elevated Randy Press to assistant sports information director. Press has worked as a sports information assistant since July 2000 ... Jennifer Armson was appointed as a sports information assistant at Penn State. Since July 2001, Armson has worked as a sports information intern at the school.

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