Tag: Thad Ward
Wide receivers Tommylee Lewis (Riviera Beach, Fla./W.T. Dwyer), Da’Ron Brown (Chicago, Ill./Morgan Park) and Juwan Brescacin (Mississauga, Ont., Canada/Culver [Ind.] Acad.) combined for 165 receptions, 1,966 yards and 18 touchdowns for the 2013 Northern Illinois University football team. They’re all back in 2014, and much is expected of the Huskies’ talented, experienced and versatile corps...
Northern Illinois head coach Rod Carey continues to put the pieces of his 2013 Huskie coaching staff in place, announcing Wednesday that three returning members of the NIU staff will take on additional duties. Carey also gave two of the four new coaches hired since he took over prior to the Huskies’ appearance in the...
Roy Manning, a former University of Michigan linebacker who spent three seasons in the National Football League and has coached at both Michigan and the University of Cincinnati, has joined the Northern Illinois football staff as running backs coach, NIU head coach Rod Carey announced Wednesday. “We’re really happy to have Roy Manning come in...
Brett Diersen, a defensive line coach with extensive Midwest ties who is well-known to Northern Illinois head football coach Rod Carey, has joined the Huskie coaching staff as defensive line coach. Diersen spent the 2012 season at Florida Atlantic University where he coached the Owls’ defensive line and served as special teams coordinator under head...
Thad Ward, who has coached at the high school and collegiate level in Florida, spent six years coaching in Illinois and became familiar with the Mid-American Conference at Western Michigan in 2012, will join the Northern Illinois coaching staff after the Discover Orange Bowl. Ward, who played wide receiver at the University of Central Florida...
