Mike Bloomgren Ex Rice head coach for OL coach
Posted on: October 30, 2024 at 16:35:01 CT
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Bloomgren is a highly respected OL and OC coach. He was Arizona Cards OL coach also coached at Stanford starting in 2013. It was Stanford's most successful decade while there.
Bloomgren had coached 12 NFL Draft selections and 11 All-America selections at Stanford, including 2015 Outland Trophy winner Joshua Garnett and NCAA all-purpose yardage record holder Christian McCaffrey.Bloomgren’s linemen were named a finalist for the inaugural Joe Moore Award in 2015, given to the nation’s top offensive line.
In 2013, all five offensive linemen received All-Pac-12 honors, including first-team selection David Yankey, Stanford’s first two-time first-team All-American selection since Bob Whitfield (1990-91) who was also selected as a semifinalist for the Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award.
Four of Bloomgren’s five starting offensive linemen earned All-Pac-12 honors in 2012, including Yankey who earned consensus All-American honors while becoming the first Stanford player to win the Morris Trophy since 2002.
The Cardinal offensive line afforded 200-plus yards rushing in six games during the 2012 season, paving the way for record-breaking running back Stepfan Taylor. The Doak Walker Award semifinalist produced the best season of his career (109.29 yards/game).
Bloomgren’s work with the offensive line in 2011, which included three first-year starters, played a pivotal role in providing protection for Heisman finalist Andrew Luck to complete over 70 percent of his passes and throw a school-record 37 touchdowns, in addition to compiling the third-highest rushing total in school annals. Stanford’s ground game keyed an offense that ranked seventh nationally in scoring average at 43.2 points/game and eighth in total offense at 489.3 yards/game.
Bloomgren launched his coaching career as an undergraduate assistant for Bobby Bowden at Florida State, where the Seminoles captured a pair of Atlantic Coast Conference titles (1997-98) during his tenure. He served as co-offensive coordinator at Catawba College from 2002-04 and offensive coordinator at Delta State from 2005-06. A 1999 graduate of Florida State with a bachelor’s degree in sports management, Bloomgren earned his master’s degree in higher education from Alabama in 2001.