A guy can’t be a graduate assistant forever. Three years are all any aspiring coach gets.
After spending the 2013-15 college football seasons as an offensive graduate assistant at Oregon, Joe Bernardi faced two choices: find a full-time coaching job or find another way to make a living.
“Go sell cars somewhere,” Bernardi chuckles into the phone when asked about his contingency plan. “I’d say it worked out pretty well.”
Pretty well? Now there’s an understatement. In fact, it’s hard to see how things could’ve worked out better for the former Fresno State lineman who earlier this month returned to the Bulldogs as tight ends coach.