Cecchini Rounds Out 2024 Bucknell Football Coaching Staff
6/17/2024 9:46:00 AM | Football
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell football head coach Dave Cecchini rounded out his coaching staff for the 2024 campaign when he announced the addition of Brad Jarman as the team's new special teams coordinator and linebackers coach. Jarman joins running backs coach Jalen Banks and defensive line coach Codey Cole as recent newcomers to the staff.
Jarman comes to Lewisburg after spending the 2023 season at Missouri State, and he spent the two prior seasons building his collegiate coaching resume at three different levels in 2021 and 2022. Jarman served as Missouri State's director of football operations last fall, overseeing all team logistics during a campaign where the Bears faced five nationally-ranked opponents as well as FBS foe Kansas. He also oversaw team finances and coordinated all on campus recruiting. On game days, Jarman assisted the Bears with analytics as well as special teams adjustments and communication.
Jarman dedicated much of the 2022 calendar year to working at Akron with the Zips' defensive backs and also helped with recruiting in the state of Missouri. In 2021, Jarman spent the spring as an assistant linebackers coach at Coe College in Iowa and working closely with the Kohawks' special teams unit while sharing video coordinator duties. He moved on to Eastern Illinois during the 2021 fall season assisting with the defensive line.
A native of Springfield, Jarman is a 2018 graduate of Missouri State and went on to earn his master's degree in sport management in 2021. While on campus, Jarman worked as a student assistant on the football staff from 2015 to 2018. He eventually earned the position of defensive graduate assistant coach and held the title from 2018 to 2021.
Banks, who arrived in Lewisburg in February, is a former member of the Vanderbilt football team and brings previous coaching experience within the Patriot League and at the Power Five level, having coached both sides of the ball during his career.
Banks spent the 2023 season at the University of Louisiana Lafayette, where he was a defensive graduate assistant working primarily with the Ragin' Cajuns' Sam linebackers. The season prior, Banks coached running backs at Fordham and worked with some of the premier rushers in the Patriot League. Banks coached 2022 All-Patriot League tandem Trey Sneed and Julius Loughridge, who combined for over 2,200 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns that season. With Banks on staff, the Rams posted the top-ranked offense in all of FCS in 2022, racking up 608.9 yards and 49.5 points per game.
Banks spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons as an offensive graduate assistant and quality control analyst at Northwestern. He assisted with the wide receivers and running backs in what was his second stint with the Wildcats. Banks had previously served as an on-campus recruiting intern at Northwestern from June 2019 to February 2020.
Between his two stints in Evanston, Banks was a defensive graduate assistant at Austin Peay, where he assisted in the defensive backs room and was primarily responsible for coaching the Governors' cornerbacks.
Banks joined the coaching ranks in 2018 as a varsity defensive backs coach and junior-varsity defensive coordinator at Thornton Township High School, where he graduated from before going on to a four-year playing career at Vanderbilt. Banks saw action in 29 games with the Commodores, contributing on special teams, at safety and at running back.
A native of Markham, Ill., Banks earned his bachelor's degree in communication studies and achieved a minor in managerial studies at Vanderbilt.
Cole also joined the Bison in February and is a former member of the Kansas football team. He spent the 2023 season as a defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Findlay.
During his time with the Oilers, Cole coached all four position on the defensive line and had a hand in developing the team's hybrid linebacker position. Under his direction, the Oilers produced four All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference players and posted the top defense in the conference with just 265.8 total yards and 81.2 rush yards per game allowed.
In 2022, Cole served a multitude of roles on the Alderson Broaddus University coaching staff, including defensive line and outside linebackers coach, recruiting coordinator and strength and conditioning assistant. Cole helped develop All-Mountain East honoree Garrion Corbin, who led the conference in tackles for loss in 2022. In 2021, Cole earned his first collegiate coaching position with Northern Illinois as a defensive assistant and weight room assistant. Working primarily with the team's defensive ends, Cole helped coach the Huskies to a MAC Championship title and an appearance in the Tailgreeter Cure Bowl.
Cole got his coaching start at Lawrence High School in Kansas, where he spent the summer of 2021 working with the team's defensive line and leading the program's strength and conditioning program.
Cole spent his last two playing seasons as a member of the Kansas Jayhawks' defensive line and appeared in all 24 games over the 2018 and 2019 campaigns. He registered 23 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks for KU as a senior, starting one game against Coastal Carolina. Cole also served as a position group captain. Before Kansas, he spent 2017 at Butler Community College and 2016 at Tiffin University.
Cole, a native of Ypsilanti, Mich., earned his bachelor's degree in liberal arts & sciences from Kansas in 2019.
Bucknell is entering its sixth season under Cecchini and is coming off a record-setting 2023 campaign in which the offense set program highs in single-season passing yards, passing touchdowns, completions and average yards per game. The Bison return a host of key contributors from last year and welcome 26 freshmen to the roster. Bucknell opens the new season on the road at Navy on Aug. 31, and the home opener against Merrimack is slated for Sept. 14.
Jarman comes to Lewisburg after spending the 2023 season at Missouri State, and he spent the two prior seasons building his collegiate coaching resume at three different levels in 2021 and 2022. Jarman served as Missouri State's director of football operations last fall, overseeing all team logistics during a campaign where the Bears faced five nationally-ranked opponents as well as FBS foe Kansas. He also oversaw team finances and coordinated all on campus recruiting. On game days, Jarman assisted the Bears with analytics as well as special teams adjustments and communication.
Jarman dedicated much of the 2022 calendar year to working at Akron with the Zips' defensive backs and also helped with recruiting in the state of Missouri. In 2021, Jarman spent the spring as an assistant linebackers coach at Coe College in Iowa and working closely with the Kohawks' special teams unit while sharing video coordinator duties. He moved on to Eastern Illinois during the 2021 fall season assisting with the defensive line.
A native of Springfield, Jarman is a 2018 graduate of Missouri State and went on to earn his master's degree in sport management in 2021. While on campus, Jarman worked as a student assistant on the football staff from 2015 to 2018. He eventually earned the position of defensive graduate assistant coach and held the title from 2018 to 2021.
Banks, who arrived in Lewisburg in February, is a former member of the Vanderbilt football team and brings previous coaching experience within the Patriot League and at the Power Five level, having coached both sides of the ball during his career.
Banks spent the 2023 season at the University of Louisiana Lafayette, where he was a defensive graduate assistant working primarily with the Ragin' Cajuns' Sam linebackers. The season prior, Banks coached running backs at Fordham and worked with some of the premier rushers in the Patriot League. Banks coached 2022 All-Patriot League tandem Trey Sneed and Julius Loughridge, who combined for over 2,200 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns that season. With Banks on staff, the Rams posted the top-ranked offense in all of FCS in 2022, racking up 608.9 yards and 49.5 points per game.
Banks spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons as an offensive graduate assistant and quality control analyst at Northwestern. He assisted with the wide receivers and running backs in what was his second stint with the Wildcats. Banks had previously served as an on-campus recruiting intern at Northwestern from June 2019 to February 2020.
Between his two stints in Evanston, Banks was a defensive graduate assistant at Austin Peay, where he assisted in the defensive backs room and was primarily responsible for coaching the Governors' cornerbacks.
Banks joined the coaching ranks in 2018 as a varsity defensive backs coach and junior-varsity defensive coordinator at Thornton Township High School, where he graduated from before going on to a four-year playing career at Vanderbilt. Banks saw action in 29 games with the Commodores, contributing on special teams, at safety and at running back.
A native of Markham, Ill., Banks earned his bachelor's degree in communication studies and achieved a minor in managerial studies at Vanderbilt.
Cole also joined the Bison in February and is a former member of the Kansas football team. He spent the 2023 season as a defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Findlay.
During his time with the Oilers, Cole coached all four position on the defensive line and had a hand in developing the team's hybrid linebacker position. Under his direction, the Oilers produced four All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference players and posted the top defense in the conference with just 265.8 total yards and 81.2 rush yards per game allowed.
In 2022, Cole served a multitude of roles on the Alderson Broaddus University coaching staff, including defensive line and outside linebackers coach, recruiting coordinator and strength and conditioning assistant. Cole helped develop All-Mountain East honoree Garrion Corbin, who led the conference in tackles for loss in 2022. In 2021, Cole earned his first collegiate coaching position with Northern Illinois as a defensive assistant and weight room assistant. Working primarily with the team's defensive ends, Cole helped coach the Huskies to a MAC Championship title and an appearance in the Tailgreeter Cure Bowl.
Cole got his coaching start at Lawrence High School in Kansas, where he spent the summer of 2021 working with the team's defensive line and leading the program's strength and conditioning program.
Cole spent his last two playing seasons as a member of the Kansas Jayhawks' defensive line and appeared in all 24 games over the 2018 and 2019 campaigns. He registered 23 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks for KU as a senior, starting one game against Coastal Carolina. Cole also served as a position group captain. Before Kansas, he spent 2017 at Butler Community College and 2016 at Tiffin University.
Cole, a native of Ypsilanti, Mich., earned his bachelor's degree in liberal arts & sciences from Kansas in 2019.
Bucknell is entering its sixth season under Cecchini and is coming off a record-setting 2023 campaign in which the offense set program highs in single-season passing yards, passing touchdowns, completions and average yards per game. The Bison return a host of key contributors from last year and welcome 26 freshmen to the roster. Bucknell opens the new season on the road at Navy on Aug. 31, and the home opener against Merrimack is slated for Sept. 14.
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