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Huskies Add 2 More Assistants, Still Need to Fill 4 Coaching Jobs

Pete Carroll's son, Brennan, is officially on board with the UW.

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Six of the 10 new University of Washington assistant football coaches for Jedd Fisch's staff have been revealed, with the school on Wednesday confirming the hires of offensive coordinator Brennan Carroll and secondary coach John Richardson.

Carroll, 44, is the son of former Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and brings a fairly weighty resume to the UW with six years of coaching on his father's NFL staff, plus previous stops at USC, also with his father, and Miami. 

He takes over duties previously held by two fairly significant coaching figures in Montlake. He steps in as the Husky OC for Ryan Grubb, who followed Kalen DeBoer to Alabama after a failed bid to become the next Husky coach, and as the O-line coach, replacing Scott Huff, who had coached for three different UW staffs over the past seven seasons.

Carroll, who played tight end at Delaware and Pittsburgh, headed up an offensive staff in Arizona that helped guide the Wildcats to per-game averages of 34.6 points and 448 yards of total offense. He has 19 years of full-time coaching experience.

Richardson comes to the UW after spending a season at Arizona while resurrecting his coaching career on Fisch's staff. The Compton, California, product will coach the Husky cornerbacks, a position he played at North Dakota State in 2007-08 and for Mount San Antonio Community College in California.

In October 2021, Richardson was fired at Washington State with head coach Nick Rolovich and three other assistant coaches for not being in state-mandated vaccine compliance during the COVID pandemic. For the Cougars, he served as the associate head coach besides handling secondary duties.

He took off the 2022 season before returning to coaching with Fisch this past year.

In Montlake, Carroll and Richardson will join fellow Arizona coaches in Jimmie Dougherty (QBs), Jordan Paopao (TEs), Jason Kaufusi (DLs) and Scottie Graham (RBs) in Montlake, along with strength coach Tyler Owens, on Fisch's new staff.

The new head coach also is expected to add Kevin Cummings from his Wildcats staff to coach the UW wide receivers.

Fisch still has to find a defensive coordinator plus someone to serve as an edge-rusher coach, a linebackers coach and another secondary coach.

Both DeBoer co-defensive coordinators, William Inge and Chuck Morrell, could be available, with Inge acknowledging his interest in staying at the UW.

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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