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MUNCIE — Mike Uremovich was officially hired as the next head coach of Ball State football on Dec. 4. His staff was officially finalized 16 days later on Dec. 20, but the Cardinals’ new crop of coaches was years in the making.
Uremovich’s college coaching career began as a Northern Illinois graduate assistant in 2001 and has taken him through every level of the sport, from Division-III offensive coordinator to FBS head coach. Along the way, he met and worked closely with many coaches who would later become his assistant coaches in Muncie.
Out of the 13 full-time coaches that make up the staff, nine of them have experience working with Uremovich over the years — most of them in the last three seasons at Butler. It’s not at all uncommon for a head coach to fill his staff with familiar faces, but Uremovich’s and Ball State’s prioritization of a staff with strong chemistry was notable.
“Being a sitting head coach when you get a head coaching job is nice because you already have a staff of people that you believe in you can pull from,” Uremovich said. “Your staff really is important that you’re all on the same page. You’re all going the same direction, you know the system that you’re trying to run, and we’re really excited with the guys we were able to get to come here.”
Many members of the staff got their start in coaching from Uremovich. Tight ends coach Sean Chase was an 18-year-old student assistant at St. Francis (Ill.) when Uremovich was head coach there.
“He’s been the same guy since then, and he’s the same guy every day, which makes it easy to come in and know what to expect from him,” Chase said.
Chase went on to spend four years…
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Publish date : 2025-04-08 17:36:00
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