Skip to content

Temple football coach Rod Carey announces three more hires

Carey has hired an assistant athletic director/chief of staff, a director of operations, and a video coordinator.

Rod Carey (right), new Temple football coach, has added to his staff.
Rod Carey (right), new Temple football coach, has added to his staff.Read moreHEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer

New Temple football coach Rod Carey announced three non-coaching hires Thursday, and all three come from his previous school, Northern Illinois.

Carey, the head coach the previous six seasons at NIU, hired Matt Lipman as assistant athletic director/chief of staff, Aaron Christner as director of operations, and Blake Yunker as video coordinator.

Carey also has hired six of his nine assistant coaches from NIU, where he won two Mid-American Conference championships and reached the MAC title game four times. There is one assistant coach still to hire, and it is likely to be a co-offensive coordinator. Carey hasn’t announced many of his staff’s assignments, but he did say that Mike Uremovich will be co-offensive coordinator.

Lipman spent the last eight seasons as assistant athletic director for football operations at NIU. Christner spent the last seven seasons there. Yunker was an NIU graduate assistant working in football operations this past season.