Gophers football team adds Brick Haley as defensive line coach

Haley has more than 30 years of experience, most recently as the defensive line coach at Missouri.

January 14, 2022 at 8:52PM
The Gophers allowed 17.3 points per game last season, sixth best in the nation. (Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Gophers coach P.J. Fleck hired Brick Haley to be the team's defensive line coach Friday, gaining the experience Haley has coaching at Missouri, LSU, Texas, Mississippi State, Georgia Tech and with the NFL's Chicago Bears.

Haley has more than 30 years of coaching experience, most recently as the defensive line coach for Missouri. He replaces Chad Wilt, who left the Gophers to become the defensive coordinator at Indiana.

Haley is joining a Gophers team that had the nation's sixth-best scoring defense (17.3 points per game) last season under defensive coordinator Joe Rossi.

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Joe Christensen

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Joe Christensen, a Minnesota Star Tribune sports team leader, graduated from the University of Minnesota and spent 15 years covering Major League Baseball, including stops at the Riverside Press-Enterprise and Baltimore Sun. He joined the Minnesota Star Tribune in 2005 and spent four years covering Gophers football.

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