2/27/2018 football Edit

Kasey Teegardin To Be Hired As IU's Next Safeties Coach

Stu Jackson • TheHoosier

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Stu Jackson covers Indiana University basketball, football and recruiting for TheHoosier.com. He also hosts Heard on The Hoosier, the site's official podcast.

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IU has found its new safeties coach.

TheHoosier.com can confirm through a source close to the Indiana football program that the Hoosiers will hire Kasey Teegardin as its next safeties coach. The Indiana Daily Student's Cameron Drummond was first to report the news Tuesday evening.

Teegardin replaces Noah Joseph, who was officially hired as Rutgers' co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach last week.

Teegardin spent the 2017 season as Indiana's director of on-campus recruiting, and prior to that, he was a defensive graduate assistant for the program.

Prior to arriving in Bloomington in 2014, Teegardin spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons as Valparaiso University's special teams coordinator and linebackers coach.

Teegardin began his coaching career as a part-time assistant at his alma mater, the University of Charleston, after graduating in 2007. He was a linebackers coach for UC in 2008 and a secondary coach in 2009 and was the NCAA's youngest defensive coordinator (age 24) when promoted to that position by UC in 2010. He then moved on to coach Northwood University's secondary in 2011.

A formal announcement is expected to be made on Sunday. IU opens spring practice on Saturday.