Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo believes a good assistant should be able to coach any position. Danny O’Rourke is proof positive that can be the case.
O’Rourke is now working with his fifth different position group since joining the Navy coaching staff in 2003. He is now helping Ashley Ingram with the offensive line after spending the past six seasons coaching slotbacks.
“Football is football. It really comes down to teaching guys what to do and how to play with great effort,” O’Rourke said.
Niumatalolo needed to make some adjustments to the coaching staff after losing Bryce McDonald, who is leaving Navy to take an administrative position at UCLA under first-year head coach Chip Kelly.