Mike Bloesch promoted to OL coach at Tulsa

A day after co-offensive coordinators Sterlin Gilbert and Matt Mattox accepted a deal with Texas, Tulsa head coach Philip Montgomery promoted Mike Bloesch to offensive line coach.

Bloesch, who replaces Mattox, has served as Tulsa's offensive quality control/assistant offensive line coach since joining the Golden Hurricane program in January. Before that, he spent one season as an offensive football analyst at the University of Houston.

Prior to the stint with the Cougars, he was the offensive coordinator at Temple (Texas) High School for three seasons, posting an overall 19-13 record. His Temple teams scored over 40 points per game while gaining over 500 yards of offense per contest. Bloesch also served as offensive line coach at Abilene Cooper High School for two seasons.

"Mike is a rising star when it comes to coaching the offensive line,” said Montgomery. “He played for us at the University of Houston, and really understands, as a player and coach, what we need to do from a schematic and offensive line standpoint in this offense.

"Mike has a really good rapport and relationship with our players and has done an outstanding job in helping us prepare our offensive plans each week. We are fortunate to have someone like Mike on staff to step in and not miss a beat."

Tulsa will still have one position on the staff to fill, but it sounds as if that will happen after the Hurricane’s bowl game on December 26. Gilbert was coaching the Tulsa quarterbacks, so Montgomery will step into that role in preparation for the Independence Bowl game against Virginia Tech. He coached that position for 12 seasons at Houston and Baylor.

"Our focus is on preparing for an extremely tough Virginia Tech team in the Camping World Independence Bowl and continuing to recruit and rebuild this program to one that will win American Athletic Conference championships," said Montgomery. "We expect this to be a seamless transition over the next two weeks in preparing for the Independence Bowl and continuing forward."

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