Bill Elias Jr.
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William T. Elias, Jr. is an American football coach. He is currently the assistant head coach, linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, a position he has held since the 2009 season. From 1999 to 2006, he was the head football coach at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he compiled a 31–51.[1]
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Current position | |
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Title | Assistant head coach |
Team | Miami (OH) |
Conference | MAC |
Biographical details | |
Alma mater | UMass |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1978–1980 | Delaware (RB) |
1981–1986 | Eastern Michigan (GA/LB) |
1987 | Butler County (OC/OL) |
1991–1993 | Vanderbilt (OLB/DE) |
1994–1997 | LSU (RC) |
1999–2006 | Gannon |
2009–present | Miami (OH) (AHC/LB) |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2006–2008 | Gannon |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 31–51 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
IFCA Coach of the Year (2003) | |
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Elias served as the athletic director at Gannon for three years before taking his current position at Miami. A 1977 graduate of University of Massachusetts Amherst, he is the son of former Virginia and Navy head coach Bill Elias.[2]