Warinner, Ed

Ed Warinner

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    Assistant Coach | Tight Ends
Ed Warinner joined the Bobcats in July 2025 with over 4 decades of college coaching experience including stints as an offensive coordinator.  He will be coaching the TE's at STU this fall. Hails from the same Alma Mater as Head Coach Bill Rychel, Mount Union Univ. 

He spent the spring and summer of 2025 coaching in the European League of Football as OC/Qb's coach for the Rhein Fire.

At Florida Atlantic
  • Joined the Owls in February of 2021 with more than 36 years of college coaching experience, including nearly 25 seasons working on the offensive side of the ball
  • The Owls' line returned the starting five, but saw the insertion of Chaz Neal at RT and Kamaar Bell at RG as well as the emergence of Alex Atcavage
  • The line provided protection for a run game that included 14 players throughout 2021, with sophomore back Johnny Ford receiving the bulk of the carries with 131 attempts. The Owls averaged 4.2 yards per carry and saw three backs, who had more than 20 carries average better than 4.4 yards per carry
  • Ford led the backs averaging 6.3 yards per carry
  • The 2022 season saw the Owls' run game record their first 1,000 yard ball carrier since 2018 and while FAU as a team ran for 184.6 yards
  • The experienced line was ranked much of the season in fewest sacks allowed and ended the 2022 campaign allowing 18 sacks ranked  No. 20 nationally
  • Brendan Bordner, a graduate transfer earned second team C-USA honors and Nick Weber, who ended his career starting every game at center and holding more games played than any other offensive lineman in program history, earned honorable mention honors
  • In January of 2023, elevated to associate head coach/run game coordinator and he will continue his attention with the offensive line
  • Lead a program that was one of nine nationally to use the same starting five throughout the season and mentored second team All-AAC selection Chaz Neal, Marquice Robinson, who saw action in his program record tying 60th game, and center Federico Maranges, who is the only FAU student-athlete to serve as SAAC President for three terms
At Michigan
  • Served three seasons as Michigan’s offensive line coach
  • In his first two years with the program, all five starting linemen earned All-Conference recognition, the only Big Ten team with this accomplishment
  • The unit was led by Jon Runyan (First Team, 2019-20) and Ben Bredeson (Second Team, 2018; first team, 2019). Bredeson also was named the team's Toughest Player in 2018
  • In Warinner's first year, sacks (23 allowed) and tackles for loss (59 allowed) decreased 36 and 40 percent, respectively, from their totals the year before
  • The starting offensive line combined for a pass blocking efficiency rating of 97.8
  • The U-M offense ranked fifth nationally in time of possession and the offense's total output of 5,457 yards ranks fifth all-time in school history
  • In 2019, the line allowed 25 sacks overall including 14 during Big Ten play (1.6 per game), just one more than the league-leading unit
  • The unit blocked for Shea Patterson's 3,061-yard passing season, the second-best passing campaign in program history, and for freshman running back Zach Charbonnet's freshman-record 11 rushing touchdowns
 At Minnesota
  • Warinner spent the 2017 season as the offensive line coach and run game coordinator at the University of Minnesota, where he worked with a rushing attack that saw five backs combine for 2,153 yards, led by Rodney Smith's 977
  • Three of the backs averaged better than 4.5 yards per carry and more than 60 percent of the team's first downs came on the ground
  • Minnesota finished third in the Big Ten in rushing offense
 At Ohio State
  • Coached five years at Ohio State (2012-16)
  • His first three seasons were spent as offensive line coach and co-offensive coordinator before he was elevated to offensive coordinator in 2015
  • Was part of the Buckeye staffs that led the team to the 2014 National Championship, a 2015 Fiesta Bowl victory over Notre Dame and the 2016 College Football Playoffs
  • Helped the Ohio State offense set single-season program records in 11 categories during his tenure, including rushing yards, passing yards, passing touchdowns, yards per play and per game, total points scored and touchdowns per game. Several of the single-season marks also rank as Big Ten records, and several others rank second or third-best all-time at OSU
  • Offensive lines at Ohio State, which sent numerous players to the NFL, helped the Buckeyes consistently have one of the most potent rushing attacks in the nation
  • All five offensive line starters in the 2013 Big Ten Championship Game went on to become day one rookie starters in the NFL
  • Was twice recognized by FootballScoop as the offensive line coach of the year (2012, 2014)
  • Became the first coach to earn that honor twice as an offensive line coach, and joined Mark Helfrich, Kliff Kingsbury and Philip Montgomery as the only four coaches to earn positional coach honors of the year twice. He was also named a finalist in 2011
  • His accolades include being named one of the Top 20 'hottest assistant coaches' by Rivals.com in 2012 and one of the Top 25 recruiters by the same site in 2014
At Notre Dame
  • Spent two seasons at Notre Dame as the offensive line coach (2010) and offensive line coach/run game coordinator (2011), helping the team reach the Hyundai Sun Bowl in his first season and the Champs Sports Bowl in his second year
At Kansas
  • Held multiple titles in two separate stints at Kansas (2003-04 and 2007-09), including offensive coordinator in his final three seasons and associate head coach in 2009
  • Helped lead three record-setting offensive units, including the 2007 Jayhawks squad that averaged 479.8 yards and 42.8 points per game en route to a 12-1 record and a FedEx Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech
  • The program posted three of its seven top-scoring seasons in school history, and the No. 1 season in terms of points per game (2007) and passing yards per game (310.3, 2009)
  • Was a finalist for the American Football Coaches Association's National Assistant Coach of the Year award following the 2009 season at Kansas
At Illinois
  • Spent two seasons as the offensive line coach and run game coordinator (2005-06)
  • Helped the 2006 Illini average a Big Ten best 188.3 rushing yards per game, the team's best mark since 1973, before returning to Kansas
At Air Force
  • Spent three seasons at Air Force (2000-02) as the offensive line coach, and helped the Falcons lead the nation in rushing his final season with the program, averaging 307.8 yards per game
At Army
  • Longest coaching stint was at Army, where he spent 13 seasons (1987-99), coaching three different position groups – defensive line, offensive line and quarterbacks – and serving as offensive coordinator during his final two years
At Michigan State
  • Spent the next two seasons in East Lansing as a linebackers and secondary coach at (1985-86)
At Akron
  • Began coaching career at Akron in 1984, working with the running backs while earning his master's degree
Playing Career
  • Warinner attended Franklin High School in Strasburg, Ohio, and went on to earn varsity letters in football and baseball at Mount Union (1979-83)