{"id":790569,"date":"2026-03-04T03:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790569\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:54:20","slug":"illinois-names-two-more-defensive-assistant-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790569\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois names two more defensive assistant coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Illinois\u2019 new defensive coordinator Bobby Hauck is filling out his defensive staff with coaches he\u2019s familiar with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Illini named two more assistants on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The first is Mike Linehan, who will be defensive ends coach. He spent three seasons with Hauck at Montana. He started his coaching career in 2020 at San Diego State. Linehan played college football at Idaho and North Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meantime, Robby Hauck will be an assistant defensive backs coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The son of Illinois\u2019 new DC, Hauck is one of the all-time leading tacklers in FCS history and recently served as a special teams coordinator and safeties coach at Portland State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hauck has the sixth-most tackles in FCS history and played at Montana from 2018-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois\u2019 new defensive coordinator Bobby Hauck is filling out his defensive staff with coaches he\u2019s familiar with. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,7308,59302,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-790569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-illinois-fighting-illini-football","10":"tag-illinois-news-and-links","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116168888428479815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790569","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=790569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}