Ed Foley Named Temple Football's Recruiting Coordinator :: Former Penn Assistant & Bucknell Grad Returns to Pennsylvania

Feb. 26, 2008

PHILADELPHIA - Ed Foley has joined the Temple football coaching staff as the recruiting coordinator, and tight ends coach/assistant offensive line coach, head coach Al Golden announced on Tuesday.

Foley completes the Owls' staff reorganization following the departure of George DeLeone to the Miami Dolphins.

"It is with great pleasure that we welcome Ed Foley back to the Delaware Valley," Golden said. "Coach Foley brings tremendous expertise and energy to our offensive staff. He has been a head coach, an assistant head coach, an offensive coordinator, offensive line coach and a tight ends coach during his 19-year coaching career. Ed also brings a wealth of experience and familiarity to our recruiting initiative. He will not only manage our recruiting department, but will personally spearhead our recruiting efforts in South New Jersey where he was born and raised."

"I'm thrilled to be part of the Temple football family and do my part to win a MAC Championship for Temple University and the city of Philadelphia," Foley said.

A native of Cherry Hill, N.J., Foley returns to the City of Brotherly Love after spending three seasons at Hofstra as the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator, and offensive line coach. The Pride offense blossomed under Foley in his first year as coordinator, increasing its yardage total from 269 to 388 yards per contest from the previous year. The Pride's scoring output also increased from 16.8 to 26.9 points per game. Foley also brought balance to the Pride attack as Hofstra's rushing total was its' highest since 2000 (145 yards/game) and its passing attack netted 243 yards per contest. Charles Sullivan left as the all-time leader in receptions and yards after catching 86 balls for 991 yards under Foley's tutelage.

Prior to joining the Pride, Foley served seven years at Fordham University, including two seasons as head coach (2004, 2005). After a 5-6 record in 2004, a season in which the Rams dropped four games by a touchdown or less, Fordham slipped to a 2-9 mark in 2005. As Fordham's offensive coordinator and offensive line coach from 1999 through 2003, Foley helped rejuvenate a program that rose to the top of the Patriot League in 2002, when it won its first-ever league title with a 10-3 record. In 2003, the Rams compiled a 9-3 overall record and had 12 players named to the All-Patriot League Team, including six members of the offense, four of whom were named to the first team.

Under Foley's guidance, the Fordham offense has set numerous team and individual records. The Rams set a team record for most rushing yards in a season in 2003, gaining 1,657 yards, while also setting a school record for most pass completions in a season with 255. In 2002, Fordham led the Patriot League in passing offense and scoring offense, while finishing second in total offense and setting a team record for most points in a season. In addition to winning the Patriot League title that season, the Rams advanced to the NCAA I-AA Playoffs, where they defeated Northeastern University in the first round. In 2001, Foley helped the Fordham offense develop its first 1,000-yard rusher on the NCAA Division I-AA level, as well as the first-ever 1,000-yard receiver in Fordham's history. The Rams had the second-ranked passing offense in the Patriot League in 2001 as well as the second-best scoring offense. In 2000, Foley's offense established a running game that generated 1,635 yards (an average of 148.6 per game), the most for a Fordham team on the I-AA level until the 2003 team gained 1,657.

Foley arrived at Fordham after spending the 1998 season as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Jacksonville University, which sponsored a football team that year for the first time in the school's history. Foley helped lead the Dolphins to a 4-5 record during their inaugural season, as the offense scored 271 points in nine games (30.1 ppg). The Dolphin attack averaged 380 yards per game, a perfectly balanced 190 yards rushing and passing per game.

Foley also served as an assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1993, and again from 1995 to 1997, spending the 1994 season as an assistant at Williams College. At Penn, Foley coached the tight ends and tackles for five years and helped the Quakers to a perfect 10-0 record in 1993, when they also won the Ivy League Championship. Prior to his stint at Penn, Foley served as the offensive line coach at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany for two years.

Foley was a three-year starter at Bucknell University, playing offensive guard for one season and center for two. During his junior year, he was named the team's top lineman, and he served as a captain during his senior year. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Bucknell in 1989 and a master's degree in educational psychology at SUNY Albany in 1991.

He and his wife Rebecca have two sons, Charlie (8) and Luke (1). His brother Glenn was a seven-year NFL veteran quarterback, playing with the New York Jets and Seattle Seahawks from 1993 to 2000.