BOULDER — Patrick Hill has been hired as the final position coach on Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders' staff at Colorado, he announced Friday along with several other announcements.
Hill will coach the defensive tackles and comes to Colorado from LSU, where he served as a defensive analyst for the 2022 season. His other coaching stops include James Madison, West Virginia State, Eastern Michigan, Central Oklahoma, Upper Iowa and Birmingham Southern, among others. At Angelo State, he coached the national defensive player of the year and NFL player Markus Jones.
Hill helped Concordia-Chicago to a NATHC Championship in 2011 and Adrian College to the 2012 MIAAC Championship. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Concordia-Chicago.
Coach Prime also announced four additions as Quality Control Analysts, several Directors of various departments and a new role for
Darian Hagan, who will serve as the Executive Director of Community Engagement and Outreach and Football Ambassador. Hagan will also work as an analyst with the running backs. Vincent Dancy, Michael Pollock and Trevor Reilly also join the staff as Quality Control Analysts.
Hagan has worked on the CU football staff for 18 seasons, being part of more than 300 games as a player, coach or staff member at CU. One of the best all-around athletes in the history of the CU football program, he was the quarterback of the 1989 undefeated regular season and 1990 National Championship teams. He held a 28-5-2 record as a starter, including a 20-0-1 mark in conference play.
Dancy comes to Colorado from Mississippi Valley State, where he was the head coach from 2018-22. He coached at MVSU starting in 2015 as the defensive coordinator. Prior to MVSU, he was the defensive coordinator at Paine College in Augusta, Ga., where he guided the Lions defense to a No. 9 ranking in pass defense in the school's first football season in 50 years.
A standout at Jackson State and all-SWAC performer at safety and linebacker, he then coached at JSU from 2009-13. He graduated from Jackson State in 2006 and earned his master's degree from West Alabama in 2008.
Pollock comes to Colorado with Coach Prime from Jackson State, where he served several roles over the past three seasons including co-offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach, offensive line coach, director of football operations and special assistant to the head coach.
A veteran high school coach from the state of Georgia, he served as the head coach at Cook, Americus-Sumter, Habersham and Lincoln County after servicing as the offensive coordinator for national powers Valdosta and Grayson. He coached 10 Under Armour All-Americans and placed dozens of student-athletes at Power 5 programs across the country.
Reilly comes to Colorado from Jackson State where he was a graduate assistant and will work with the special teams units. He played collegiately at Utah and was drafted into the NFL in 2014 and played five seasons in the NFL for the New York Jets, New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins. He returned to Utah as a student-assistant coach before joining Coach Prime at Jackson State in 2021.
A first-team All-Pac-12 selection in 2013 as a senior, he finished his career at Utah with 235 tackles, 37 for a loss with 8.5 sacks, eight forced fumbles and two interceptions. He attended Valley Center High School in Valley Center, Calif.
The strength and conditioning staff was also announced with Maurice Sims named the Director of Strength and Conditioning, Tersoo Uhaa the Assistant Head Strength Coach, and Stephen Houston, Brandon Reyes and Rendrick Taylor named Assistant Strength coaches.
Sims joins Coach Prime from Jackson State. Prior to JSU, he was the associate director of strength and conditioning at Georgia and has also been on the strength staff at North Carolina, Army, Indiana, Bethune-Cookman and was a graduate assistant at Tennessee. A native of Knoxville, Tenn., he was an all-conference defensive back at Concord University before graduating from Tennessee-Chattanooga. He holds a master's degree from Bethune-Cookman.
Several other Directors and department heads were also named, including Rodney Forsett (Chief of Staff), David Kelly (General Manager), Reggie Calhoun (Director of Football Operations), Craig Campanozzi (Director of Sports Video), James Chaney (Director of Player Development), Darius Darden-Box (Director of Recruiting), and Corey Phillips (Director of Player Personnel).
Pat Hill has been hired as the final position coach on Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders staff, he announced Friday along with several other announcements.
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