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Bob Diaco Staff

COACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Promoted to assistant head coach for 2012 season.

• Diaco won the 2012 Broyles Award as the nation[apos]s top assistant coach, the first Irish assistant coach to ever capture the award.

• Diaco[apos]s defense in [apos]12 ranked among the top 10 in the Football Bowl Subdivision in 12 different categories.

• Notre Dame ranked second in the FBS in scoring defense in [apos]12 – allowing just 12.77 points per game. The Irish were one of just three scoring FBS top-10 defenses to exclusively face FBS competition. Notre Dame only allowed 16 touchdowns (only 15 offensive touchdowns) – four fewer than any other FBS school.

• Notre Dame allowed a total of 166 points over its 13 games in [apos]12. The Irish have never surrendered fewer points over a 13-game season in school history.

• Notre Dame allowed 12 offensive touchdowns over its last 11 games of [apos]12.

• The Irish held six opponents without an offensive touchdown and nine foes to one or fewer offensive touchdowns.

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Purdue University Athletics

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  • Title:
    Assistant Coach (Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers)
  • Email:
    fbrecruit@purdue.edu
  • Phone:
    494.3224
Bob Diaco is in his first season as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. He was hired Jan. 2, 2020.

Diaco, who served as UConn’s head coach from 2014 to 2016, was named the Broyles Award winner as the nation’s top assistant coach in college football while defensive coordinator at Notre Dame in 2012.

Diaco joined Purdue after spending the 2019 season as Louisiana Tech’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. Diaco helped guide the Bulldogs to a 10-3 overall record, including a 14-0 shutout win over Miami in the Walk On’s Independence Bowl, and a 6-2 mark in the West Division standings of Conference USA in his lone season in Ruston. La Tech won 10 games for the first time since 1984.

In the first shutout in the 44-year history of the Independence Bowl, Diaco’s Bulldogs limited the Hurricanes to merely 227 yards of total offense and 15 first downs. According to Stats Inc., the Bulldogs bec
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Bob Diaco Season 2025

Bob Diaco, the winner of the Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant coach in 2012, joined the LSU staff in the spring of 2023 as a senior defensive analyst for the Tigers. He served in that capacity until August when he took over as special teams coordinator and outside linebackers for the remainder of the season.

Diaco returned to his original role with the Tigers in the spring of 2024 and once again holds the title of senior defensive analyst.

Diaco is a former head coach at Connecticut and reunited with LSU head coach Brian Kelly for the fourth time of his coaching career when he joined the Tiger coaching staff in the spring of 2023.

Prior to arriving at LSU, Diaco coached the defensive line for the New Jersey Generals in the USFL for two seasons.

A native of Cedar Grove, N.J., Diaco previously served on Kelly’s staff at Central Michigan (2005), Cincinnati (2009) and Notre Dame (2010-13).

In 2005 at Central Michigan, Diaco was the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Chippewas who went 6-5 and had only the second winning sea

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