Defensive Coordinator – Safeties @ColgateFB (FCS) Recruiting: Southern California, Chicagoland, MN, WI @SJUjohnnies alum
Hamilton, NY
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One of the most common questions I get when recruiting is, “What kind of defense do you run?”
Simply put… it’s a 𝙁𝙐𝙉 one
Where we 𝘼𝙏𝙏𝘼𝘾𝙆
We 𝘿𝙄𝘾𝙏𝘼𝙏𝙀 the 𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙈𝙎
We 𝘼𝙋𝙋𝙇𝙔 the 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙀
Year 2 #Loading
#DrawTheLine | #GoGate
Colgate Football
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I am excited to announce I have been named the Defensive Coordinator for @ColgateFB.
Eager to get to work with our staff & players. Go ‘gate❕
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Hoping the power of social media can help out. I am no longer at Stony Brook & am looking for a coaching opportunity…
I’ve coached DBs 8yrs, DC for 3, Co-STC for 3, FCS, D2 & D3 levels, been a GA & QC at 2 diff. places.
Open to anything from FBS analyst to D3 position coach.
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The last 48 hours have been ones of reflection. Through all the time to think, I keep coming back to a few words: proud, special, selfless, & fun.
Undefeated Reg. Szn, LL 💍, Cortaca Jugs W @ Yankee 🏟️, Elite 8 appearance.
Winning is hard. That’s why it’s so fun. #stillhungry
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This is what it sounds like to make plays in front of (45,161) Ithaca fans. This is Ithaca. #WhyIC
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Excited for this next chapter of my career & to be joining @Coach_Priore’s staff at @StonyBrookFB coaching the safeties!
I am immensely grateful for the people who helped make this a reality & for my time working at Ithaca College the last 4 years.
Let’s get it 😤
🌊🐺 #HOWL
𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗
Join us in welcoming our new Safeties Coach Trevor Warner to the Island 🙌
📰 Details: bit.ly/3YsYwjI
🌊🐺 x #HOWL
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Excited to announce I have accepted a position coaching defensive backs at Ithaca College. Can’t wait to get started and Go Bombers!
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Attention recruits! Adam is a D2 guy... If you want it, go get it. Doesn’t matter what level you play, if you have the talent & grit, you’ll create an opportunity for your dreams to become reality.
2009: Adam Thielen's only option was a $500 scholarship at Minnesota State.
2012: Undrafted
2014-16: Vikings paid him $1.5M total
2017: Gets $11M guarantee
11/23/17: Becomes 1st Viking since Randy Moss to have 1,000 yards receiving before end of November.
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Excited to be back in my home state of California this Monday on the recruiting trail to find new Seawolves. See you soon‼️
📍 San Diego
📍 Orange County
📍 Los Angeles
📍 “The Valley”
📍 The IE
🤙🏼 x 🌊🐺🏝️ #HOWL
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As offers are flying out left & right, know that it’s nice to be wanted… but remember what you truly want.
To help find what’s important to you, talk with your parents, HS coaches, mentors, etc. (they’re older, wiser, & have life perspective you don’t have)
🧵🧵🧵
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Fired up to be back in the homeland this week looking to bring some Cali boys to Upstate New York!! #GoGate
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I just received an email from a 6th grader wanting to introduce himself and get put on our radar for future recruitment.
SIXTH GRADE. Go be a kid.
Parents, please stop this nonsense. Let your kids be kids.
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So Cal, Chicagoland, Minnesota, Wisconsin… & all defensive dudes!
📅 Save The Date ‼️
SAVE THE DATE!! 🗓️
World Class Education ✅
Elite level D-1 FCS Football ✅
Unrivaled Tradition ✅
Contact your recruiting coach for more info! 🔴⚪️⚔️
Coaching staff is tagged below ⬇️
#DrawTheLine | #GoGate
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“Guys that study the game & love the game of football, aren’t ever gonna get burned out. They just live for it. They immerse themselves in the X’s & O’s & the fundamentals & being a great teacher & I think that’s something that’s really important.”
Jeff Monken
🎯 🎯 🎯
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Hittin’ the road to the #WindyCity 🔜
📍 South Chicago Metro❕
📅 Next Week
See you 2️⃣5️⃣s soon 👀
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My favorite story of John was when John took a dime out of his pocket and put it up to the sun at practice, and said, you see that dime? That’s football... the sun is your life... don’t ever mix them up.
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There aren’t any “dog days of camp” when you love the process & who you’re doing it with!
#GoGate #DrawTheLine @ColgateFB
📸 by @Firstteamphoto
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When you get to spend all day every day with these guys & this team, it’s clear why this place is unrivaled. Love these guys!!
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This team is special. Just something about them is special. They’ve been tested time & time again this fall & haven’t quivered once – hasn’t been perfect but my goodness are they tough.
Love these guys immensely.
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Happy 4th of July from @ColgateFB. 🏴☠️
Celebrating the greatest country in the world never gets old ‼️ 🇺🇸 🦅 🎇 🆓
#GoGate #DrawTheLine #Merica
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Bronco Made!!!
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2023 was an amazing year of growth & learning opportunities. I stepped out of my comfort zone & took chances that created uncomfortability & adversity.
Thank you Stony Brook — I am excited to see what & where 2024 will bring me. ✌🏼
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Apparently margin of defeat & strength of schedule don’t matter too much.
We’ll keep playing the toughest.
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Colgate in the summer… you just gotta see it to believe it.
3x Most Beautiful Campus in the U.S.
📍 Hamilton, NY
🔗 tinyurl.com/3a7eruzn
👀 for yourself ⤴️⤴️⤴️
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We don’t call them turnovers here... we call them TAKEAWAYS. #GimmeDat #ThrowbackThursday
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If you can find someone who knows you're not perfect, but still treats you like you are, keep them... forever.
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Got assigned the last row, middle seat on a flight today. A mother wanting to switch with me to fly with her two children told me her seat was 4D. I walk back to the front to find a first class seat with my name on it. Wow what a spin of events 😎
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Although photos don’t do the beauty of this place justice, I’m going to start a thread & post photos periodically for the rest of summer to try to highlight how amazing Ithaca is.
Starting with tonight’s sunset & golden hour from Butterfield…
🧵 🧵 🧵 Stay tuned recruits…
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Love coming to work with these guys daily…
Follow our staff — get connected with your position & recruiting area coach.
We’ll be on the road in a few weeks! ✈️
#DrawTheLine | #GoGate
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Each job/promotion I’ve gotten is largely due to ppl advocating for me. My 1st coaching job was b/c my college playing career & coaches advocating for me as a leader. I got to college b/c my HS coaches advocated for me.
I ONLY started my Sr. year in HS.
I feel for the seniors...
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Wow. I never thought this day would come. It was more than an honor to play for John for the time I did. RIP.
Saint John’s Mourns the Passing of Football Coaching Legend John Gagliardi:
gojohnnies.com/news/2018/10/… #d3fb
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🚧 New Carey Center 👀 🔜
🏈 Football Locker Rooms
🎥 Team / Meeting Rooms
💻 Coaches Offices
📚 Athlete Academic Facility
🏥 Sports Medicine Facility
🏋🏼 S&C Training Facility
🥗 Nutrition / Supplement Facility
Top of the line facilities at Colgate 🔜
thirdcentury.colgate.edu/upd…
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A year after passing, you continue to inspire me & so many others to be a great man, a simplistic coach & teacher, and to “just do it”. You are missed by so many. Thank you, John. piped.video/-4cU73z8Jdg
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Heading into the last weekend before training camp next week with back to back DB commitments in the ‘26 class > 💥 😤😤
Who’s next 👀
#GoGate #DrawTheLine
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Everything literally happens for a reason... feeling extremely grateful & appreciative today. Thanks be to God.
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📅 June 27, 28, 29
📍 Hamilton, NY
#GoGate
#DrawTheLine
🗓️ MARK YOUR CALENDERS🗓️
2025 Colgate Football Camp registration is now open!
6/27 Friday Night Lights Youth Camp
6/28 Prospect Camp # 1
6/29 Prospect Camp # 2
Be sure to come camp with the Raiders this summer! 🏕️
#DrawTheLine | #GoGate
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Before your season starts, look at your game schedule. Look at the schools’ schedules you’re interested in & that are recruiting you. Put a plan together to get to a home game experience.
PS: Fall time in Ithaca is undefeated 🍂 🍃 🍁 👀
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As a product of the CIF Southern Section… I can attest it’s the real deal.
See you in a week So Cal!! 👀
CA ➡️ NY
🌊 🐺 x #HOWL
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If you don't make her feel like the only & most important girl in the world, shame on you. You're not doing your job as a man. You're a boy.
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If football is canceled for HS teams across America, coaches NEED to find a way to continue to mentor those SAs in a virtual or social distanced way. We cannot allow this pandemic to force us from mentoring young men who need coaches most. Be #MoreThanACoach !
Football prepares young people for many of the trials they will experience in adulthood by providing social lessons that cannot be replicated in the same way off the field.
👀 bit.ly/2XXYYY7
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Great day for Division 3 football & my alma mater, @SJUJohnnies. Congratulations to Ben!
Round 4, No. 116 overall: @Jaguars select St. John's OT Ben Bartch.
nfl.com/prospects/ben-bartch…
#NFLDraft
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September 4th can’t come soon enough! Come see what a fall Saturday in Ithaca is all about. #MADDOGS🤬🐕
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When it’s too cold for them, it’s just right for us… love these kids & the toughness they bring day in & out!!
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The NACC, UMAC, MASCAC, NEWMAC, ECFC, MIAA, SCIAC all get automatic bids to D3 playoffs.
Their combined record in the last 20 years is 7-80 w/ 4/7 conferences mentioned never winning a game.
Yesterday’s record for these conferences: 0-7 w/ avg margin of defeat of 37.8. #d3fb
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One week left of spring ball…
Check out the positional preview of our QBs & DBs, the field generals on Offense & Defense.
piped.video/yG8ni7Gm3j8
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Walking 1 on 1 compete, coaches version.
• Independent feet ☑️
• Eye discipline ☑️
• Deny the slant, rally to the fade ☑️
😂😂😂
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Bomber football during peak foliage in the finger lakes… hard to beat.
Can’t wait for our recruits & their families to see for themselves today & next Saturday.
🏈 🍁 🍂 🎃
Mike Toerper
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There’s a story of John Gagliardi putting a dime up to the sun & telling freshman in camp, “The dime is football. The sun is your life. Don’t ever get them mixed up.”
The dime is football. The sun is the wives & children of coaches.
John’s leadership lessons are important/proven
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💥 💥 💥
Let’s go!
Fired up to join the staff @ColgateFB !
Excited to get to work with a great group of coaches and players.
#GoGate
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Can’t wait for another opportunity this Saturday!
#DrawTheLine #GoGate
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Root of success: love & leadership. #PeopleFirstAlways
For one last time in 2022, One Beat on 3.
#GoBombers | #OneBeat
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Happy Easter! ✝️
Today, we celebrate the power of resurrection, redemption, and new beginnings. Easter Sunday reminds us that through faith, perseverance, and grace, anything is possible. Wishing you and your families a blessed and meaningful day! #HeIsRisen
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Ridiculous. If you can’t compete, kick them out. @MIACathletics you got this so wrong. A founding member, 118 years of rivalry, sad to see. My dislike for UST today is a little more empathetic.
@UST_Football feel free to score 98 when other teams allow it. We’d enjoy seeing it.
BREAKING: St. Thomas will "involuntarily" leave the MIAC after being an original member of the league since 1920. strib.mn/2WZ1L2J
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Simply put... JUST DIFFERENT! #Unrivaled #Cortaca2022
It’s Official…
#GoBombers | #PrideAndPoise
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We don’t always play golf in Cortland, but when we do, we make sure to remember what happened November 16, 2019 to the red dragons 😎
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Waking up to “Hot Remix” by Young Thug as your alarm is a whole different vibe I don’t think you guys are ready for... I’m a different person since doing so.
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I would have never guessed if you take away someone’s (not just kids) #1 favorite social environment & competitive opportunities that they love, that they’d experience depression & anxiety about future college opportunities...
UW Study: Two-Thirds of High School Athletes Are Experiencing Depression, Anxiety Over Canceled Sports upnorthnewswi.com/2020/07/15…
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Teams CAN'T win championships without a championship culture led by championship behavior, standards, & accountability.
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June is 🔜 & that means CAMPS❕
Our staff will be traveling the country to various camps, but by getting to our camp(s) you get:
1️⃣ See 3x most beautiful campus in 🇺🇸
2️⃣ Direct eval from OUR staff. True feel for how WE coach.
3️⃣ Less #, less 🎪
4️⃣ Interact with future teammates
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That Friday feeling knowing our guys are back on The Hill!!! #MADDOGS🤬🐕
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How does one choose when you’ve been a part of the two greatest (non-FBS) college football rivalries?
You don’t! #Cortaca #Jugs #JohnnieTommie #HolyGrail
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My father always told me his father always told him, “Never judge a man until you walk a mile in his moccasins.” I was taught early on through my parents & the Catholic Church to respect & love others for who they are. This led to meeting my best friend, Donovan, who tragically
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#DrawTheLine ⏳
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📅 1 WEEK FROM CAMP #1
Come earn your spot, meet the staff, see why Ithaca is consistently ranked a top college town in America!
🔗 REGISTER HERE ⬇️⬇️
tinyurl.com/Ithaca-Prospect-…
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Sharing this again because it would be #CortacaWeek2020.
You want special? This is something indescribably special. This is what it sounds like to make plays in front of (45,161) Ithaca fans. This is Ithaca. #WhyIC
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I wake up every day motivated to do my best. But I’d be lying if I said I’m not influenced & motivated even more seeing our other Bomber teams achieve excellence day in and day out.
Ithaca is special because excellence is the standard & consistently met by our teams. #WhyIC
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Someone tell Delta’s CEO to tell Biden to cancel student loan debt
Delta CEO asks CDC to shorten the recommended COVID quarantine: "the 10-day isolation for those who are fully vaccinated may significantly impact our workforce and operations"
the next week, CDC shortened guidance to 5 days.
10 days is still the guidance in Canada, Europe + UK
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Fall in Upstate New York is unrivaled.
Come check out a home game, see what’s being built in Hamilton & why Colgate has been named the most beautiful campus in the country by the Princeton Review.
#GoGate #DrawTheLine
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I grew up in Southern CA, but man I'll tell ya what... summers in MN, the lake life, it doesn't get better! Come see for yourself recruits!
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When you truly understand how little of time you have, you truly understand how much work is necessary to be elite.
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𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘡𝘠 𝘚𝘛𝘈𝘛 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘋𝘈𝘠:
The last time a Bomber defense gave up less than 11.7 points per game was 30 seasons ago (1989). #MADDOGS🤬🐕
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