Brian VanGorder

Brian VanGorder was born April 17, 1959 in Jackson, Michigan. He began his football coaching carreer as a high school coach in 1981 and joined the college ranks in 1989 at Grand Valley State University. He became head football coach at his alma mater, Wayne State University in 1992. After leaving Wayne State University in 1994, he coached at University of Central Florida, Central Michigan and Western Illinois University before joining the University of Georgia coaching staff in 2001. He was the defensive coordinator and linebacker coach at Georgia for four years and won the Frank Broyles Assistant Coach of the Year Award in 2003. In January, 2005, Vangorder joined the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars as linebacker coach. On December 12, 2005, he was named the fifth head football coach for Georgia Southern University.

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