Bowling Green State University Athletics
Springer To Become Defensive Coordinator at Western Kentucky
December 24, 2006 | Football
Dec. 24, 2006
Bowling Green, Ohio - Gregg Brandon has announced that defensive backs coach Dennis Springer will join the staff of Western Kentucky University where he will become the defensive coordinator.
"This is a great opportunity for Dennis and his family and we wish him nothing but the best," said Brandon. "He was a big reason for the success that we have enjoyed, including two bowl championships and a MAC West title."
The Fort Wayne, Indiana native came to BGSU from Ball State in 2003 and as the teams running backs coach and was instrumental in the development of P.J. Pope and B.J. Lane as they became two of the top 15 rushers in the history of the school. Pope is currently with the Green bay Packers.
This past year, he moved to the defensive secondary and help shape one of the youngest defensive backfields in the country into a core group which should lead the Falcons for years to come.
He will join a staff at WKU which is coached by his former teammate at Butler, David Elson. Springer is a 1993 graduate of Butler.
Bowers Joins Staff At Western Washington
After spending the 2006 football season as the linebackers coach at Bothell High School near Seattle, former BGSU assistant coach John Bowers was named recruiting coordinator and secondary coach at Western Washington University. He and his family moved to the west coast this past summer where he wife, Joanne, is now the head gymnastics coach at the University of Washngton. Bowers was on the BGSU staff from 2001-2005.
