Delaware
Football Adds Brown, Peake to Staff;
Promotes McArdle to Tight Ends
Coach
DATE:
March 23, 2005
NEWARK, DE
-- University of Delaware football head
coach K.C. Keeler has completed his staff
for the 2005 season, hiring Neal Brown
(far right) and Dyran Peake (middle) as
assistant coaches and promoting graduate
assistant Brian McArdle (left).
.jpg) .jpg) .jpg) Brown,
who served on the staff of Sacred Heart
University last fall, has been named
receivers coach, Peake, who worked last
season as an assistant at Cornell, has
been named defensive backs assistant, and
McArdle, who joined the staff last fall as
a graduate assistant, will take over as
tight ends coach.
The three
bring to six the number of UD assistant
coaches that will either be new to the
staff or new to their positions this fall
after former UD staff members took jobs at
various NCAA I-A schools during the
off-season. Earlier this winter, Isaac
Collins was hired as defensive backs coach
to replace Paul Williams (Western
Michigan), Jim Turner was hired as
offensive line coach replacing Kyle Flood
(Rutgers), and Brian Ginn was promoted to
a full-time position after receivers coach
Bryan Bossard left to take a similar
position at the University of Maryland.
Brown
takes over for Bossard, Peake replaces
Craig Cummings, who left the UD staff
after three seasons to take a sales
position with Under Armour Corp., and
McArdle takes over the position held last
season by Dave Scott, who resigned to
spend more time with his full-time career
as a mathematics teacher at nearby Glasgow
High School.
Brown, 25,
served as wide receivers and quarterbacks
coach at NCAA I-AA Sacred Heart in 2004,
leading the Fairfield, CT school to a
record of 6-4 overall and a fourth place
finish in the Northeast Conference
standings with a record of 3-4. The
Pioneers led the conference in scoring
offense with 27.6 points per game.
Brown came
to Sacred Heart after working as tight
ends coach and offensive line assistant at
the University of Massachusetts in 2002
and 2003, helping to lead the Minutemen to
a share of the Atlantic 10 title and a
berth in the NCAA I-AA playoffs in 2003. A
2002 Massachusetts graduate with a degree
in business management, Brown earned two
letters as a wide receiver at UMass,
catching 58 passes for 721 yards and four
touchdowns while being named to the A-10
All-Academic team and the I-AA Athletic
Director's Academic All-Star Team as a
senior.
He played
his first two seasons at the University of
Kentucky where he played in the Outback
and Music City Bowls. He is a native of
Danville, KY and was a 2003 inductee into
the Boyle County Football Hall of Fame.
Peake, 26,
who will assist Collins with the Blue Hen
defensive backs, spent three seasons as a
graduate assistant at Duke University
before moving on to Cornell for the 2004
season. While at Duke, he worked with the
wide receivers during the 2001 season and
with the defensive backs during the 2002
and 2003 campaigns. At Cornell, he worked
with the tight ends and H-Backs and served
as video coordinator for the Big Red.
This past
season Cornell went 4-6 overall and placed
third in the Ivy League with a mark of 4-3
and ranked second in the league in passing
at 217.2 yards per game.
A native
of Duncan, SC, Peake is a 2001 graduate of
Catawba College in Salisbury, NC with a
degree in information systems with a
concentration in programming. He was a
three-year starter at safety in college,
serving as captain as a senior when he
earned All-South Atlantic Conference
honors. He led Catawba to two South
Atlantic Conference titles and two NCAA II
playoff berths in 1999 and 2000 and
finished his career with 221 tackles and
six interceptions. He and his wife,
Latorsha, will reside in the Newark area.
McArdle,
24, will begin his second season on the
staff after working last season as an
offensive assistant under offensive
coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca. Currently
pursuing a master's degree in educational
leadership, McArdle also handled film
breakdown and exchange with fellow
graduate assistant Lyle Hemphill last
fall.
A native
of Levittown, PA and a graduate of Harry
S. Truman High School, McArdle was a
standout football player at NCAA Division
III Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA
where he was a three-year starter on the
offensive line and earned his degree in
sociology and anthropology in 2003.
He was a
three-year All-Centennial Conference
selection, twice as an offensive tackle
and once as a center, and served as a
co-captain for head coach Peter Gallagher.
McArdle began his coaching career at NCAA
III Delaware Valley College in 2003 as
assistant offensive line coach.
Delaware
will open a month of spring drills April
4, with the annual Blue-White Spring Game
scheduled for April 30 at 12 noon at
Delaware Stadium.
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