Just days after the Duke football program lost running backs coach Chris Foster to the University of Florida, the team has found his replacement in East Carolina running backs coach Rodney Freeman II. Freeman had been the running backs coach for the Pirates for the last two seasons after spending a year at Utah State. He served as the offensive coordinator and play caller for ECU in its 23-17 upset victory over Pitt in the Military Bowl.
Interestingly, Freeman joins the Duke staff from the same lineage that Foster did. Before becoming the Blue Devils' running backs coach, Foster was the running backs coach at Northwestern and coached at East Carolina before that.