Peter Holland Jr./ Staff Writer
It has been announced on Jan. 22nd that Head Coach Ron Turner has added Paul Volero to his coaching staff for next season. He will replace Tem Lukabu, who will be the linebackers coach at Western Michigan University, as defensive line coach. Here’s what Turner said about the hiring during his press conference:
“Paul (Volero) brings a lot of energy, enthusiasm and knowledge to our staff. He was around our program last year and got a chance to see our guys and get familiar with them. I’m excited. He’s a Miami guy and has a lot of connections here. So he’ll do an outstanding job recruiting. He’s a big addition to our program.”
Volero is looking forward to work under Turner in the 2016 season and enjoys living in Miami. “I’m excited and delighted to be part of the Panther family in a great city like the city of Miami, where there is no better football in the world,” Volero said.
Volero’s résumé and football experience qualifies in the reason why Turner hired him in the first place. He bounced around to different schools around the country after he finished college and his is football career. He played college ball at both Arizona Western College and Glenville State College. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Nova Southeastern University in 2004. Two years later he earned his master’s from West Virginia University.
As a player at Glenville State College in West Virginia, he helped lead his team to the NAIA national championship despite becoming a runner-up in 1993. He started coaching defensive line in 1996 for GSC.
He came to Miami to serve as a defensive coordinator in high school teams such as Miami Senior High School, North Miami Senior High School and Booker T. High School from 1997-2002. He would then spent a season as an assistant strength and conditioning coach and defensive line coach at University of South Florida in Tampa.
A year later he served as a special team quality control coach and academic graduate assistant at West Virginia University. He contributed by breaking down special teams and scheme implementation. He also monitored the Mountaineers’ production on special teams. Spending two years at WVU, he was part of the staff that led the Mountaineers to Big East Conference championships in both 2004 and 2005 seasons. With the two consecutive conference titles, he also helped with two bowl victories (Sugar Bowl and Gator Bowl). He then joined Central Michigan University as special teams’ coordinator and defensive line coach for three seasons.
In 2010-2011, he moved to Key West, Fla. to serve as defensive coordinator at Key West High School. He would then take a position at Washington St University as an outside linebackers coach for two years (2012-2014) under Mike Leach until finally found his way to FIU as a defensive quality control coach.
With his past experience, he will help lead this Panther’s defensive Line unit that has to replace their two sack leaders Michael Wakefield and Denzel Perine.
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