Golden Adds New Staff Member

Coach Al Golden has hired South Jersey native Ed Foley, the former head coach at Fordham and most recently the offensive coordinator at Hofstra, to serve as Temple’s tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator.

Foley will fill the vacancy created when former offensive coordinator/offensive line coach George DeLeone left the Owls to join the Miami Dolphins coaching staff. Last month, Golden promoted quarterbacks coach Matt Rhule to the offensive coordinator job and moved Andrew Dees from tight ends coach to offensive line coach. Rhule was Temple’s recruiting coordinator this past year.

Foley brings nearly 20 years of Division I-AA coaching experience to the Owl staff. That’s nowhere close to DeLeone, but it does make Foley the most experienced member of Golden’s young staff.

A former offensive lineman at Bucknell, Foley spent six years as an assistant at Penn before getting his first shot as an offensive coordinator at Jacksonville University in 1998. He moved to Fordham in 1999, working five years as the offensive coordinator for the Rams.

When Fordham’s boss went to Richmond, Foley was promoted to head coach in 2004. The Rams went 5-6 in his first campaign, then slipped to 2-9, and Foley resigned. He joined Hofstra as the offensive line coach in 2006 and was promoted to the offensive coordinator job this past year.

The Temple job is Foley’s first at the Division I-A level, though it’s not unfamiliar territory for him. Foley’s brother is former South Jersey all-star quarterback Glenn Foley, who played at Boston College and with the New York Jets.

Foley’s addition to the staff will likely be announced this week.