Tuesday, January 23, 2007

NY Giants Defensive Coordinator has UMass Roots

Eagles linebacker coach Steve Spagnuolo has been chosen as Defensive Coordinator by the NY Giants.

This article quotes former UMass DE and Assistant Coach Steve Telander about Spagnuolo.

The Boston Globe has a 2005 article about him as Eagles Linebacker Coach here.

This is Telander's bio from the 1983 UMass Press guide "Steve Telander graduated from UMass in January of 1979. During his four years at UMass he was named to the 1978 All-ECAC Team, All-New England in 1978 and All-Yankee Conference in 1975. He played Defensive end for the Minutemen. Since Graduation from UMass, Telander has been an assistant coach at Dartmouth and head football coach at Hanover High School."

Spagnuolo as a graduate assistant coach, apparently did not rate a bio in the then pretty sparse press guide. I believe both Telander and Spagnuolo followed two year UMass head coach Bob Stull to UTEP when he left.