Oregon football's Dan Lanning announces staff updates, promotions for 2024: What to know
Oregon football coach Dan Lanning announced several staff updates heading into spring football for the 2024 season, including the promotion of defensive analyst Brian Michalowski to inside linebackers coach.
Michalowski joined the Ducks in 2023 after spending a single season in 2022 at Oregon State. Oregon’s new inside linebackers coach has worked with Lanning for a large chunk of his career, as a defensive quality control analyst at Georgia in 2018, as a grad assistant at Memphis in 2016-17, and as a grad assistant with Lanning at Arizona State in 2012.
Before Oregon State, Michalowski was Colorado’s outside linebackers coach from 2019-22.
“We are excited to elevate Brian to a full-time coaching role on our staff,” Lanning said. “I have a great relationship with Coach Michalowski having worked with him previously, and he has done a tremendous job since arriving in Eugene.
"He is one of the brightest defensive minds in college football and a terrific teacher of the game, and he does a phenomenal job of connecting with our student-athletes. We are thrilled to have Coach Michalowski here as we continue to elevate our program and building a championship culture.”
Other coaching changes for Oregon football
Lanning also announced that co-defensive coordinator Chris Hampton will now oversee all defensive backs, adding on to his role as safeties coach last season. Graduate assistant Rashad Wadood has been elevated to working with Oregon’s cornerbacks. Those moves come on the heels of previous cornerbacks coach and pass defense coordinator Demetrice Martin leaving Eugene for Michigan State.
Hampton helped coach safety Evan Williams to second-team all-Pac-12 honors in his first season in Eugene and was instrumental in the secondary’s vast improvement from 2022. Wadood, a former cornerback, began his college career at Arizona State with Lanning and Michalowski before transferring to Eastern Washington in 2014. He was hired at Oregon in 2022 as the director of community engagement before transitioning into a defensive grad assistant role in 2023.
To round out the staff, Lanning announced that defensive analyst Kamran Araghi will move into a grad assistant role with Oregon’s outside linebackers, former Oregon lineman Ryan Walk has joined the staff as a grad assistant, and Zach Tinker has rejoined the staff as a special teams analyst.
Walk was a three-year starter for the Ducks from 2020-22. He was named a first-team all-Pac-12 in 2020 and earned honorable mention in 2021-22.
Full Oregon coaching staff as of February 2024
Head coach: Dan Lanning
Offensive coordinator: Will Stein
Defensive coordinator: Tosh Lupoi
Co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers: Junior Adams
Co-defensive coordinator/defensive backs: Chris Hampton
Special teams coordinator/nickels: Joe Lorig
Running backs: Carlos Locklyn
Tight ends: Drew Mehringer
Inside linebackers: Brian Michalowski
Offensive line: A’lique Terry
Defensive line: Tony Tuioti
Head strength and conditioning: Wilson Love
Assistant strength and conditioning: Mark Davis
Assistant strength and conditioning: Christian Tupou
Grad assistant, defense: Rashad Wadood
Grad assistant, defense: Kamran Araghi
Defensive analysts: Dante Bartee, Connor Boyd, Skyler Jones
Offensive analysts: Mike Cavanaugh, Steven Haunga, Koa Ka’ai, Antonio Parks, Jordan Salkin
Alec Dietz covers University of Oregon football, volleyball, women’s basketball and baseball for The Register-Guard. You may reach him at adietz@registerguard.com and you can follow him on Twitter @AlecDietz.
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