{"id":13985,"date":"2024-02-12T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2024-02-12T04:34:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T09:34:22","slug":"former-michigan-state-football-lb-max-bullough-gets-promotion-with-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=13985","title":{"rendered":"Former Michigan State football LB Max Bullough gets promotion with Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Former Michigan State football linebacker and captain Max Bullough is rising through the coaching ranks with Notre Dame.<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-projected-playing-time-for-defensive-freshmen\/\">Michigan State football<\/a> alumnus is moving up in the coaching world. On Sunday, it was announced that Notre Dame would promote former MSU linebacker Max Bullough to be their full-time linebackers coach. He had previously been working as a graduate assistant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Irish offered Chris O&#39;Leary a pay raise to stay in South Bend, per a source. He declined. He wants to coach in the NFL. <\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame is expected to promote graduate assistant Max Bullough to linebackers coach. Mike Mickens would coach all of the defensive backs in that case. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KDFRisslN7\">pic.twitter.com\/KDFRisslN7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tyler Horka (@tbhorka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tbhorka\/status\/1756726103022936423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This promotion is exciting news and a huge step for Bullough&#8217;s coaching career. The difference between being a grad assistant and a full-time position coach is massive, both in title and in effect.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fairly common to see a linebackers coach either get promoted or poached by another team to be a defensive coordinator \u2014 if Notre Dame&#8217;s linebacker unit excels under Bullough, it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if that&#8217;s exactly what happens. Notre Dame&#8217;s current head coach Marcus Freeman was a linebackers coach at Purdue before eventually landing the team&#8217;s defensive coordinator job and eventually the Notre Dame head coaching job. As I said, this promotion is a massive jump for the former Spartan. If he can seize this opportunity, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me to see him as a coordinator in a few years.<\/p>\n<p>Bullough played for the Spartans for four years under Mark Dantonio, beginning in 2010. He totaled 299 tackles, eight sacks, and three interceptions across those years, being named a team captain and leading a defense that ranked top-10 nationally for three out of his four seasons. After this decorated college career, Bullough spent a couple of years in the NFL, primarily with the Houston Texans. He later held graduate assistant jobs at Cincinnati and Alabama before ending up with the Irish.<\/p>\n<p>Still just 32 years old, Bullough is an ascending young coach in the world of football and definitely a guy to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Bullough is rising in the coaching ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,450,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-13985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-max-bullough","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}