Vols officially announce football support staff changes - 247Sports

Tennessee's football coaching staff underwent multiple changes this offseason, but the turnover didn't stop there. The Vols now have officially announced some changes to the support staff as well heading into Jeremy Pruitt's third season as head coach. The headline move is the addition of Chip Long, the former offensive coordinator at Notre Dame and Memphis.

The Vols on Friday officially confirmed a series of changes to their football staff:

> Andrew Warsaw, previously of Mississippi State, is Tennessee's new director of football operations.

> Todd Watson, an original member of Pruitt's support staff, is moving from director of football operations to the director of football programming role held in 2019 by Joe Osovet, who was promoted to tight ends coach in January.

> Long has been hired as an offensive quality control analyst.

> Defensive graduate assistant Nanumi Lolohea has moved into a defensive quality control analyst role.

> Football operations graduate assistant Nick Hardesty is moving into a full-time operations assistant role.

GoVols247 previously reported the addition of Long, and Warsaw announced his move last month.

In three seasons at Notre Dame, Long's offenses ranked top 25 nationally in scoring in 2019 and 2017, and the Fighting Irish were the No. 7 rushing offense and set single-season records for rushing yards and yards per carry in his first season in 2017. The Birmingham native was a finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the top assistant coach in college football in, 2018. Long and Notre Dame parted ways in December.

Long previously was the offensive coordinator at Memphis in 2016, coached four seasons at Arizona State and was once a graduate assistant for Bobby Petrino at Louisville and Arkansas, and he coached the tight ends at Notre Dame, Memphis and Arizona State, and his familiarity there should pair nicely with Osovet as he takes over the position.

Warsaw spent the past two seasons at Mississippi State in the same role. In 2017, he was the NFL's director of game operations. In the role, he coordinated team logistics and travel for international games and for the Super Bowl. Warsaw also oversaw all gameday policies during the season from the league's headquarters in New York.

Prior to his NFL stint, the Maryland native spent two seasons as the director of football operations at Purdue and was the operations coordinator at Arizona for three seasons, and his duties in those roles included daily operations, travel coordination and player personnel and recruiting logistics. Warsaw previously worked at Fordham, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Penn and Villanova, where he was part of the Wildcats' 2011 FCS title season. He graduated from West Virginia and spent four seasons as a student manager there.

Watson came to Tennessee from Troy, where he was the director of operations and high school relations for the Trojans. He has a background as a high school coach in Alabama, where he led Foley High School to an 80-36 record while coaching future Alabama stars like Julio Jones, Robert Lester and D.J. Fluker. Watson was the defensive coordinator at Hoover High School from 2000 to 2004, preceding Pruitt in the role.

He helped the Bucs compile a 70-4 record and win four state titles.

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