Just got the official word from UConn. The football team has added defensive backs coach Darrell Perkins and tight ends coach Jon Wholley to its staff.
Perkins comes from Louisiana-Monroe, where as a DB coach he helped the team become statistically the best in the Sun Belt Conference in 2009. Before that he was the defensive coordinator at Charleston Southern in 2007.
“We are very pleased to welcome Darrell to the Connecticut football program,” UConn head coach Randy Edsall said in a statement. “He brings a wide variety of coaching experience to our team _ and all of it has been successful. Darrell has worked in nearly every region of the country and brings a strong reputation with him to UConn.”
Wholley is a 2004 UConn graduate, a former UConn player and an ex-graduate assistant with the program.
“We are very happy to welcome Jon back to the UConn football program,” Edsall said. “He was a tremendously hard worker for us as a student-athlete and graduate assistant coach. Jon is a Connecticut native who knows the state through-and-through and he is a great addition to our staff.”
Most recently Wholley was an assistant football coach at Fordham for the 2009 season where he worked with the running backs and had recently added recruiting coordinator duties. The Rams led the Football Championship Subdivision (Division I-AA) in total offense at 488.82 yards per game.
- Neill
