Coach Luke Fickell’s offensive staff for the University of Wisconsin football team is nearly complete.
The program announced Friday the hires of three assistants on that side of the ball, following the announcement of offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Phil Longo on Tuesday.
UW is still in the hiring process for a running backs coach, while hires on the defensive staff are expected to be announced next week.
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Mike Brown will be the Badgers’ associate head coach and lead the wide receivers. He’d been on Fickell’s staff at Cincinnati since 2019 as receivers coach and advanced to passing game coordinator this season. A former quarterback and receiver at Liberty, he earned All-American recognition at both positions before embarking on a three-year NFL career with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
He started his coaching career as an analyst at Michigan in 2016 before taking running backs coaching jobs at Delaware (2017) and Liberty (2018). Brown helped develop receivers like Alec Pierce, who was a second-round pick by the Indianapolis Colts last year, and multiple other all-American Athletic Conference selections. Brown’s receivers tallied 70 touchdowns in 2021.
Gino Guidugli will coach the team’s tight ends after serving as Fickell’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach with the Bearcats last season. He led the team’s quarterbacks for six seasons in total. UW is just the third stop in his coaching career, which started at Central Michigan in 2010. He was a graduate assistant there before being promoted to running backs coach and recruiting coordinator. He was the OC in 2017 before joining Fickell at Cincinnati, his alma mater.
Guidugli was one of the best quarterbacks in Cincinnati history during his playing career and is in the school’s athletic hall of fame, but had his program yardage and touchdown records broken by his protégé Desmond Ridder.
Jack Bicknell Jr. comes to UW after working with Longo at North Carolina last season. He got his start in coaching at his alma mater Boston College after a four-year career playing center. He became a defensive line coach for six seasons before moving back to offense. He was a head coach at Louisiana Tech for eight years (1999-2006) before going back to the offensive line. He spent seven seasons at the NFL level, coaching lines for four franchises.
He got back into the college ranks in 2017 when he was part of Longo’s offensive staff at Ole Miss.
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