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The University of Utah Athletics
Boulware, Schramm Complete Utah Football Coaching Staff
1/4/2005 12:00 AM | Football
Jan. 4, 2005
SALT LAKE CITY -
Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham completed his staff today by hiring Jay Boulware and Dave Schramm to coach the tight ends and running backs. Since they each have experience coaching both positions, their responsibilities will be determined later. Boulware comes to Utah from Stanford, where he coached the running backs last year. Schramm coached the offensive tackles, tight ends and served as the recruiting coordinator at Montana for the past two seasons.
Says Whittingham, "Jay gives us more experience with Pac-10 coaching, having been at Arizona and Stanford. He is a very bright young football coach who will go a long way in this profession. Jay also brings a lot to the table in terms of recruiting with his Texas ties. His background with special teams will also be helpful. Dave is a proven football coach who coached at San Diego State for 12 years. He is a huge value to us because of his background as a recruiting coordinator and he also has great experience coaching the offense. The guys he worked for just rave about him."
Boulware is an eight-year veteran of college coaching with stops at Stanford (2004), Arizona (2001-03) and Northern Illinois (1997-2000). He coached the tight ends at Arizona in 2001 and the running backs from 2002-03. He was also the Wildcats' special teams coordinator in 2003. His final season at U of A, he coached the Pacific-10's third-leading rusher in Mike Bell.
Boulware spent the 1997 season coaching the Northern Illinois tight ends. He was promoted to co-offensive line coach the next year. In 2000, Boulware helped build one of the best offenses in college football as the Huskies ranked 12th in the nation in rushing and scoring and 19th in total offense. Ryan Diem, a three-year starter for Boulware, was a three-time all-Mid American Conference selection and an Academic All-American. He was drafted in the fourth round by the Indianapolis Colts in 2001.
As an undergraduate at Texas, Boulware, lettered in 1992 at offensive tackle. Slated to start in 1993, his career instead ended due to arrhythmia. He moved into the role of student-assistant coach and was a part of two bowl teams: the 1994 Sun Bowl and 1995 Sugar Bowl. He spent the 1996 season as a Longhorn graduate assistant working with the tight ends. One of his pupils, Pat Fitzgerald, caught 35 passes and was named a first-team All-American. As a group, Boulware's tight ends caught 51 passes and helped the Longhorns win the Big XII championship and beat No. 3 Nebraska in the first Big XII Conference championship game. Texas played Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl that year.
The Irving, Texas, native graduated from UT in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
 Dave Schramm comes to Utah from Montana.  | |
Schramm coached the tight ends in his season at Austin Peay. San Diego State hired him from his G.A. position at Nebraska to serve as its recruiting coordinator--a position he held from 1990-2000. He moved into a full-time coaching position with the Aztecs in 2002 and would oversee four different positions during his 10-year coaching tenure at the school: offensive line, safeties, tight ends and running backs.
At SDSU, Schramm coached first-team All-America and all-conference center Mike Malano in 1999 and second-team All-America running back Larry Ned in 2001. Ned was the second-leading rusher in Aztec history and Schramm also coached the team's third all-time rusher in Jonas Lewis.
He left SDSU for an assistant head coach position at Southwest Texas State (now Texas State-San Marcos), where he also coached the running backs. There, Schramm coached Southland Conference scoring leader Lee Davis in 2002.
He spent the past two seasons as the offensive tackles and tight ends coach, and recruiting coordinator at Montana. Montana went 12-3 this past season and advanced to the NCAA Division I-AA championship game, losing to James Madison. Schramm played a big role in the Grizzlies' success: He coached a first-team All-America tackle in 2003 in Dylan McFarland, who now plays for the Buffalo Bills. Offensive tackle Cory Proctor was a second-team All-America tackle in 2004.
Schramm's first coaching job was at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego as an assistant from 1984-87.
Schramm's undergraduate career was spent at Cornell (Iowa), Grossmont Junior College and Adams State (Colo.). As a freshman quarterback at Cornell, he led Division III in touchdown passes and led Cornell to a No. 1 national ranking in total offense.
After completing his career at Adams State, he transferred to San Diego State, graduating with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1988. The San Diego native and his wife Bonnie have twin boys: D.J. and Dusty.
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