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American football player and coach (born 1972)
Joe Rudolph
(born July 21, 1972) is an
American football
coach and former
guard
who is the
offensive line
coach of the
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
.
[1]
Prior to this position he was the run game coordinator, and offensive line coach at
Virginia Tech
. Before his time at Virginia Tech, he was the associate
head coach
,
offensive coordinator
, and
offensive line
coach at the
University of Wisconsin?Madison
as well as the interim head coach and offensive coordinator of the
University of Pittsburgh
Panthers football team
.
[2]
[3]
He played in the
National Football League
(NFL) for the
San Francisco 49ers
and
Philadelphia Eagles
.
[4]
Biography
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Rudolph was born in
Charleroi, Pennsylvania
[5]
and is married to Dawn DeCaria Rudolph of Weirton, West Virginia. Together they have three sons.
[6]
He attended the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
, where he was a team captain on the football team, and the
Tepper School of Business
at
Carnegie Mellon University
.
Professional playing career
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Rudolph played with the
Philadelphia Eagles
in 1995.
[7]
After spending 1996 away from the NFL, he returned in 1997 to play with the
San Francisco 49ers
.
Coaching career
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Rudolph's first coaching experience was as a graduate assistant with the
Ohio State Buckeyes
. In 2007, Rudolph served as Tight Ends Coach of the
Nebraska Cornhuskers
. While there he also worked on special teams and oversaw the punt team. He then served as the tight ends coach of the
Wisconsin Badgers
football team from 2008 to 2011.
Head coaching record
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*Rudolph served as interim coach after
Paul Chryst
left for Wisconsin after the regular season. Pittsburgh credits the regular season to Chryst and the Armed Forces Bowl to Rudolph.
See also
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References
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- ^
"Joe Rudolph Named Offensive Line Coach"
. Notre Dame Athletics
. Retrieved
7 March
2023
.
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Zeise, Paul (January 7, 2012).
"Pitt's Chryst formally announces six members of his coaching staff"
.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
. Pittsburgh, PA
. Retrieved
January 7,
2012
.
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"Paul Chryst Announces Coaching Staff Realignment"
. PittsburghPanthers.com. February 18, 2012. Archived from
the original
on October 23, 2015
. Retrieved
February 18,
2012
.
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"Players: Joe Rudolph"
.
NFL.com
. Retrieved
January 7,
2012
.
- ^
"Player Bio: Joe Rudolph - UWBadgers.com - the Official Web Site of the Wisconsin Badgers"
. Archived from
the original
on September 7, 2010
. Retrieved
October 19,
2010
.
- ^
"Player Bio: Joe Rudolph - UWBadgers.com - the Official Web Site of the Wisconsin Badgers"
. Archived from
the original
on September 7, 2010
. Retrieved
October 19,
2010
.
- ^
"Joe Rudolph Stats"
.
Pro-Football-Reference.com
.
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# denotes interim head coach
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