Steve Russ and Brian Knorr: Wake's New Football Assistants

Although official announcements were not expected to be made until later this week, on Saturday the school announced that former Syracuse defensive coordinator Steve Russ will be joining the Wake Forest football staff for 2008.

According to Sporting News he will take over the responsibilities of tight ends/fullbacks coach, although the school has not officially made that announcement so for now I will consider that only a rumor, even if it's a pretty good one.

The other coaching hire is expected to be Brian Knorr, current Assistant Head Coach/Co-Def. Coord/ILBs at Air Force. He coached with Grobe at Ohio and replaced him as head coach there when Grobe left.

The exciting thing about these two guys is that they are both coaches with plenty of experience taking significant demotions to join the Wake Forest football coaching staff. In the past that type thing never happened. It's great to see that other coaches are willing to take other jobs in order to be a part of Grobe's staff here at Wake. I expect that with these new coaches in place there will be little disruption to the continuity of things.

There should be an official announcement of Knorr and possibly even a press conference later this week. I expect there to be more information then.