ST. JOSEPH – Missouri Western head football coach Matt Williamson has announced the addition of seven members of the 2017 Griffon Football coaching staff.
The staff includes a range of experience from different areas and different levels of football coaching. Williamson’s first staff will include two former members of the Griffon Football team and three Missouri Western graduates.
Williamson’s 2017 assistant coaches will include: Chet Pobolish – offensive coordinator, Patrick St. Louis – run game coordinator/offensive line, Ryan Watts – wide receivers, Colin McQuillan – running backs, Michael Walton – defensive coordinator, Scorpio Horn – defensive line and Justin Richter – defensive backs.
“All the pieces of the puzzle fell right into place. We have a phenomenal staff,” Williamson said. They are high character family men that work day in and day out with passion and energy. I wanted very a very experienced and successful staff of recruiters – that’s the bloodline of our program. I can’t wait to get going, the staff is pumped and ready to go.”
Chet Pobolish returns to the MIAA after a successful playing career at Emporia State (1996-99). The four-time All-MIAA wide receiver comes to Missouri Western after spending six seasons in various positions on the Southeastern Louisiana University football staff, including offensive coordinator for two seasons. Prior to Southeastern State, Pobolish was the special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach at Delta State from 2007-11. He began his coaching career at Emporia State where he worked with quarterbacks and wide receivers.
Like Williamson, Michael Walton comes to Missouri Western from Stephen F. Austin where he was the special teams coordinator and safeties coach since 2014. The Eastern New Mexico alumnus previously served as defensive coordinator at Angelo State (2011-13), New Mexico Military Institute (2010-11) and Eastern New Mexico (2006-07). Walton also coached Sam Houston State as a special teams coordinator and corners coach (2007-10) after beginning his career at Eastern New Mexico as a safeties coach.
Patrick St. Louis returns to his alma mater after spending six of the last seven seasons at Morehead State University. The former Griffon offensive lineman was offensive coordinator at Morehead State for the past two seasons after serving as offensive line coach since 2013. St. Louis began his coaching career as a student assistant at Missouri Western before becoming a graduate assistant at Morehead State. He coached offensive line for one season, 2012, at Olivet College before returning to Morehead in 2013.
Scorpio Horn also makes his return to Missouri Western. The former Griffon defensive and offensive lineman spent the past three seasons as head coach at William Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri. Horn was defensive coordinator for three seasons at Park Hill South High School before moving to the Independence School District. The 2005 Missouri Western graduate’s brother, Joe Horn, played wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs and New Orleans Saints.
Colin McQuillan transitions from graduate assistant to full-time assistant on the Griffon coaching staff. McQuillan served as a defensive graduate assistant for two years at Missouri Western after high school coaching stops at KC Wyandotte and Riverside High School. McQuillan was a student assistant at Missouri Western before receiving his bachelor’s degree in 2012.
Justin Richter returns to the area after graduating from the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas in 2010. Richter was most recently a defensive graduate assistant at the University of California-Berkley. He also coached at West Texas A&M, University of New Mexico, Angelo State and New Mexico Military Institute.
Ryan Watts was most recently an offensive assistant at Abilene Christian. Prior to joining the ACU staff, Watts was a graduate assistant and assistant director of football operations at Stephen F. Austin.
Williamson also announced the addition of Kedrick Harrison as a graduate assistant. Harrison will work with defensive ends. Some changes to existing graduate assistants’ duties were also announced. Brian Chiles will now work with tight ends after spending the 2016 season working with running backs. Derek Fulton will remain working with quarterbacks while Chance Alberswerth remains with the linebackers.
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