Bob Diaco

Bob Diaco
Current position
Sport(s)	Football
Title	Head coach
Team	Connecticut
Conference	The American
Record	8–17
Biographical details
Born	(1973-02-19) February 19, 1973 Cedar Grove, New Jersey
Playing career
1992–1995	Iowa
Position(s)	Linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1996–1997	Iowa (GA)
1999–2000	Western Illinois (RB/ST)
2001	Eastern Michigan (RB/ST)
2002	Eastern Michigan (LB/ST)
2003	Eastern Michigan (OLB/ST)
2004	Western Michigan (LB/ST)
2005	Central Michigan (Co-DC/LB)
2006–2008	Virginia (LB/ST)
2009	Cincinnati (DC/ILB)
2010	Notre Dame (DC/ILB)
2011	Notre Dame (DC/LB)
2012–2013	Notre Dame (AHC/DC/LB)
2014–present	Connecticut
Head coaching record
Overall	8–17
Bowls	0–1
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
Broyles Award (2012)

Bob Diaco (born February 19, 1973) is the current head coach of the Connecticut Huskies football team. He has previously been a coach at Western Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan, Virginia, Cincinnati, and Notre Dame. He played college football at Iowa.

In December 2013, Diaco agreed to become the head coach at the University of Connecticut, and was replaced at Notre Dame by Brian VanGorder.

Diaco was awarded the Broyles Award in 2012, which recognizes the top assistant coach in college football.^[1] He already had been a semi-finalist in 2011.

He played college football at the University of Iowa, under head coach Hayden Fry, who described Diaco as "extremely tough, very intelligent".^[2] He was a two-time All-Big Ten selection as a linebacker and was named the team’s co-MVP in 1995, starting in all 23 games over his junior and senior seasons. Diaco was teammates with Mike Devlin, Scott Slutzker, Danan Hughes, and Mike Wells.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Connecticut Huskies (American Athletic Conference) (2014–present)
2014	Connecticut	2–10	1–7	T–10th
2015	Connecticut	6–7	4–4	T–3rd (Eastern)	L St. Petersburg
2016	Connecticut	0–0	0–0	(Eastern)
Connecticut:		8–17 (.320)	5–11 (.313)
Total:		8–17 (.320)
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

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Connecticut Huskies head football coaches

No coach (1896–1897)
E. S. Mansfield (1898)
T. D. Knowles (1899–1901)
Edwin O. Smith (1902–1905)
George E. Lamson (1906–1907)
W. F. Madden (1908)
S. F. G. McLean (1909)
M. F. Claffey (1910)
Leo Hafford (1911)
A. J. Sharadin (1912)
P. T. Brady (1913)
Dave Warner (1914)
John F. Donahue (1915–1916)
No team (1917–1918)
Roy Guyer (1919)
Ross Swartz (1920)
J. Wilder Tasker (1921–1922)
Sumner Dole (1923–1933)
J. Orlean Christian (1934–1942)
No team (1943)
J. Orlean Christian (1944–1949)
Arthur Valpey (1950–1951)
Robert Ingalls (1952–1963)
Rick Forzano (1964–1965)
John Toner (1966–1970)
Robert Casciola (1971–1972)
Larry Naviaux (1973–1976)
Walt Nadzak (1977–1982)
Tom Jackson (1983–1993)
Skip Holtz (1994–1998)
Randy Edsall (1999–2010)
Paul Pasqualoni (2011–2013)
T. J. Weist # (2013)
Bob Diaco (2014– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.

Head football coaches of the American Athletic Conference

East Division	Tommy Tuberville (Cincinnati) Bob Diaco (Connecticut) Scottie Montgomery (East Carolina) Willie Taggart (South Florida) Matt Rhule (Temple) Scott Frost (UCF)

West Division	Tom Herman (Houston) Mike Norvell (Memphis) Ken Niumatalolo (Navy) Chad Morris (SMU) Willie Fritz (Tulane) Philip Montgomery (Tulsa)

Broyles Award winners

1996: Andrews 1997: Herrmann 1998: Cutcliffe 1999: Friedgen 2000: Mangino 2001: Shannon 2002: Chow 2003: VanGorder 2004: Chizik 2005: Davis 2006: Foster 2007: Heacock 2008: Wilson 2009: Smart 2010: Malzahn 2011: Chavis 2012: Diaco 2013: Narduzzi 2014: Herman 2015: Riley

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