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Purdue Football: Boilermakers Hire Navy DB Coach James Adams.

Hammer and Rails | April 5, 2021

Related Topics: United States Navy, James Adams, Purdue University, Brad Lambert, Anthony Poindexter, Charlotte, Purdue Boilermakers football, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Pennsylvania State University, Conference USA

Several trusted sources are reporting that Purdue will hire Navy defensive backs coach James Adams to fill the final vacancy on the coaching staff.

#Purdue will hire James Adams from Navy to fill the DB opening, @jconline has learned
Replaces Anthony Poindexter, who left for Penn State— mike carmin (@carmin_jc) April 5, 2021

This will be Adams’s third job in as many years after spending a year at Navy and a year at Western Michigan. He was the defensive backs coach at both schools. Prior to Western Michigan and Navy, Adams was on the initial University of Charlotte coaching staff in 2011 and was retained by former Charlotte head coach and current Purdue defensive coordinator Brad Lambert in 2013.


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