Tim Tibesar
{{Short description|American football coach (born 1972)}}
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| current_team = Akron Zips
| position = Defensive coordinator & linebackers coach
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|8|27|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
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| college = North Dakota
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- San Diego State (1997)
Student assistant - Grossmont (1998)
Linebackers coach - California (1999)
Graduate assistant - Cornell (2000)
Tight ends coach - North Dakota (2001–2003)
Linebackers coach - North Dakota (2004–2005)
Defensive coordinator & linebackers coach - Kansas State (2006)
Special teams coordinator - Kansas State (2007–2008)
Defensive coordinator & defensive backs coach - Montreal Alouettes ({{CFL Year|2009}}–{{CFL Year|2010}})
Linebackers coach - Montreal Alouettes ({{CFL Year|2011}})
Defensive coordinator & linebackers coach - Purdue (2012)
Defensive coordinator & linebackers coach - Chicago Bears ({{NFL Year|2013}})
Linebackers coach - Northwestern (2014)
Defensive consultant - Wisconsin (2015–2016)
Outside linebackers coach - Wisconsin (2017)
Defensive run game coordinator & outside linebackers coach - Oregon State (2018–2021)
Defensive coordinator & outside linebackers coach - Akron (2022–present)
Defensive coordinator & linebackers coach
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Tim Tibesar (born August 27, 1972) is an American gridiron football coach. He is the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the University of Akron, positions he has held since 2022. Formerly was the defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Oregon State University.
Coaching career
Tibesar began his coaching career at San Diego State in 1997 as a student assistant and was later an assistant coach at Grossmont College in 1998, where he coached linebackers.{{cite web |title=First NFL job a dream come true for Tibesar |url=https://www.chicagobears.com/news/first-nfl-job-a-dream-come-true-for-tibesar-10487674 |website=Chicago Bears |access-date=30 June 2021}} After a stint as a graduate assistant at California and as the tight ends coach at Cornell, Tibesar returned to his alma mater North Dakota as linebackers coach, eventually being promoted to defensive coordinator in 2004. He left North Dakota to be the special teams coordinator at Kansas State in 2006. Tibesar was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2007 and was not retained when Kansas State head coach Ron Prince was fired and replaced with Bill Snyder.{{cite web |title=Assistants departing Kansas State football |url=http://www2.kusports.com/news/2007/jan/12/assistants_departing_kansas_state_football/ |website=KUSports |access-date=2 July 2021}} Tibesar's departure was highlighted when he filed a lawsuit against the university for additional compensation after he wasn't retained, leading to the university to discover an alleged secret deal between Prince and then-athletic director Bob Krause.{{cite web |title=K-State suing in Krause-Prince secret deal |url=https://www.cjonline.com/article/20090520/SPORTS/305209764 |website=Topeka Capital-Journal |access-date=2 July 2021}}
Tibesar was named the linebackers coach for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 2009, where he won two Grey Cups as an assistant coach. After one season as the Alouettes' defensive coordinator, Tibesar returned to the collegiate ranks as the defensive coordinator at Purdue.{{cite web |title=Tim Tibesar Named Defensive Coordinator |url=https://purduesports.com/news/2012/1/19/Tim_Tibesar_Named_Defensive_Coordinator |website=Purdue University Athletics |access-date=2 July 2021}}{{cite web |title=Ex-CFL assistant Tim Tibesar to Purdue |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/7480472/purdue-boilermakers-hire-ex-cfl-assistant-tim-tibesar-defensive-coordinator |website=ESPN |date=19 January 2012 |access-date=2 July 2021}} Tibesar spent only one season at Purdue before leaving to coach the linebackers for the Chicago Bears under former Alouettes head coach Marc Trestman.{{cite web |title=Tim Tibesar among three new Bears assistant coaches |url=https://www.chicagobears.com/news/tim-tibesar-among-three-new-bears-assistant-coaches-9455635 |website=Chicago Bears |access-date=2 July 2021}} He was fired by the Bears after the season, ending his short tenure with the organization.{{cite web |title=Bears fire ex-UND coach Tibesar |url=https://www.grandforksherald.com/2206565-bears-fire-ex-und-coach-tibesar |website=Grand Forks Herald |date=13 January 2014 |access-date=2 July 2021}} After working as a defensive consultant for Northwestern in 2014, Tibesar was named the outside linebackers coach at Wisconsin in 2015.{{cite web |title=Wisconsin hires Daronte' Jones & Tim Tibesar as assistant coaches |url=https://btn.com/2015/01/20/wisconsin-hires-daronte-jones-tim-tibesar-as-assistant-coaches/ |website=Big Ten Conference |date=20 January 2015 |access-date=2 July 2021}}{{cite web |title=Two more added to football staff |url=https://uwbadgers.com/news/2015/1/20/Two_more_added_to_football_staff.aspx |website=Wisconsin Badgers |date=20 January 2015 |access-date=2 July 2021}}
Tibesar was named the defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Oregon State in December 2017.{{cite web |title=OSU football: Four more to join staff |url=https://apnews.com/article/e73b5a55acf04107abd28f4e26969f30 |website=Associated Press |access-date=30 June 2021}}{{cite web |title=Oregon State football adds Tim Tibesar as defensive coordinator; Trent Bray as linebackers coach; 2 Hawaii assistants |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2017/12/oregon_state_to_hire_tim_tibes.html |website=The Oregonian |date=19 December 2017 |access-date=30 June 2021}} He was terminated by Oregon State on November 7, 2021, the day after a 37-34 loss to Colorado.{{cite web |title= OSU Football parts ways with defensive coordinator Tim Tibesar |url=https://www.koin.com/sports/osu-football-parts-ways-with-defensive-coordinator-tim-tibesar/ |website=KOIN |access-date=November 7, 2021}}
In 2022, Tibesar joined Joe Moorhead's staff at Akron as the defensive coordinator.{{cite news |last1=Samuels |first1=Doug |title=The Scoop - Monday March 7, 2022 |url=https://footballscoop.com/thescoop/the-scoop-monday-march-7-2022 |access-date=7 March 2022 |work=footballscoop.com |publisher=Football Scoop}}
References
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External links
- {{Twitter|CoachTibs}}
- [https://osubeavers.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/tim-tibesar/1492 Oregon State Beavers profile]
- [https://footballfoundation.org/hof_scholars.aspx?hof=273 National Football Foundation profile]
{{97th Grey Cup}}
{{98th Grey Cup}}
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