Jeff Stoutland is a football coach through and through.
After all, he’s been coaching the game for over 32 years, starting as an inside linebackers coach with the Southern Connecticut State Fighting Owls (his alma mater) the very next season after his college playing career was over. He followed the example set by his head coach Kevin Gilbride, who would go on to coach for 23 seasons in the NFL, and his position coach Paul Pasqualoni, who has coached eight years at the NFL level and is now the defensive line coach at Boston College.
“Those two coaches, they were passionate, they were detailed,” recalls Stoutland.