According to Desmond Conner of the Hartford Courant and also confirmed by Ed Daigneault of The Republican-American, former University Miami offensive coordinator Mark Whipple has emerged as the leading candidate for the UConn Huskies head football coaching job. Daigneault states that announcement could come as early as tonight.
Whipple has never been a head coach at the FBS level but has head coaching experience in Division II and at the FCS level.
In six seasons with the University of New Haven Chargers, Whipple was 48-17. He then spent four seasons with the Brown Bears where he was 24-16. He then took over at the University of Massachusetts in 1998 where he won the NCAA Division I-AA Championship. In all he spent six years with the Minutemen where he compiled a 49-26 record.
From 2004-2006, he was the quarterbacks coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers and in 2008 was an offensive assistant coach for the Philadelphia Eagles. And for the last two years, he was Asst. Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks coach under Randy Shannon at Miami before Shannon was let go.
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