{"id":787472,"date":"2026-03-02T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/787472\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:48:18","slug":"rich-bisaccia-is-close-to-taking-a-job-in-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/787472\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Bisaccia is close to taking a job in college football"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Tiger Illustrated, Clemson\u2019s On3\/Rivals site, former Green Bay Packers special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia is nearing a deal with the Clemson Tigers<\/a>. Per Tiger Illustrated, the deal needs to go in front of the school\u2019s board of trustees (BOT), a sign that the contract on the table comes with major financial backing.<\/p>\n

Bisaccia stepped down from his post in Green Bay two weeks ago, leaving the Packers with the lone coordinator vacancy open after 11 other special teams coordinators were hired around the league, including Cleveland snatching Bisaccia\u2019s right-hand man, Byron Storer. General manager Brian Gutekunst stated at the combine that the team was not expecting Bisaccia to leave this offseason and that Bisaccia was going to pursue other opportunities.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s very interesting here is that Clemson doesn\u2019t have a special teams coordinator vacancy. Mike Reed, their assistant head coach, special teams coordinator and cornerbacks coach, is still under contract with the team. Last year, Reed was the second-highest paid special teams coach in college football<\/a>, only behind Jeff Banks of Texas. Banks made $1.2 million while Reed made $950,000 last year. Joe DeCamillis, formerly of South Carolina, made $850,000 before leaving to take the Las Vegas Raiders\u2019 coordinator position this offseason.<\/p>\n

Reed wasn\u2019t a special teams coach from 2013 t0 2021 at Clemson, when he was able to focus as the team\u2019s defensive backs coach, but his defensive duties were limited to just cornerbacks beginning in 2022, when he took on the special teams role. The addition of Bisaccia may allow Reed to return to the defensive staff full-time, even if Reed is still making coordinator-level money. In that context, it makes sense why the team would need BOT approval for increased cash spend on the coaching staff. For what it\u2019s worth, it\u2019s not common to need a BOT meeting for every coach added to the staff.<\/p>\n

Reed\u2019s special teams history started before 2022, though, as he was originally a special teams coach for the 2002 to 2006 Philadelphia Eagles, a unit led by John Harbaugh and Dave Toub. When I asked around in the college football world about potential coordinators who could make a jump to the league, Reed and Michigan State\u2019s LeVar Woods (played in the league, hasn\u2019t coached and was the long-time Iowa coordinator) were the names I was pointed to the most.<\/p>\n

If approved, this will be Bisaccia\u2019s first stint at the college level since he was Mississippi\u2019s assistant head coach, running backs coach and special teams coach in 2001. He previously spent 1994 to 1998 at Clemson, as the running backs coach and special teams coach, after spending 1988 to 1993 with South Carolina, their in-state rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Tiger Illustrated, Clemson\u2019s On3\/Rivals site, former Green Bay Packers special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia is nearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,97481,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-787472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116161551141389542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}