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Feb. 21, 2000
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – University of Virginia head football coach George Welshannounced several changes in responsibilities among his assistant coachestoday.
Art Markos, UVa’s defensive backfield coach since 1991, has been moved towide receivers coach. Markos moved to Charlottesville when Welsh took overthe head coaching reins in 1982 and is the lone remaining member of Welsh’soriginal staff. He was the defensive line coach from 1982-85, the defensiveends coach from 1986-88 and the defensive ends/strong safety coach in1989-90. Markos has coached four All-Americans at UVa, including punterWill Brice, defensive backs Percy Ellsworth and Anthony Poindexter anddefensive end Ray Savage.
Bob Price, UVa’s running backs coach the last three seasons, takes over forMarkos as the defensive backs coach. Among the positions he has held in hiscoaching career are a four-year stint as defensive coordinator, secondarycoach and special teams coordinator at Nevada-Las Vegas from 1986-89 and ayear (1990) as the secondary coach at California. He was a secondary coachfor three different teams in the Canadian Football League in the1990s-Ottawa Roughriders (1991), Saskatchewan Roughriders (1992-93), andBaltimore Stallions (1994-95). He was the head coach of the CFL’s MontrealAlouettes in 1996 before coming to UVa in 1997.
Andree Powell moves to running backs coach, a position he coached at UVa in1996, his first in Charlottesville. That season he coached Atlantic CoastConference Player of the Year Tiki Barber as Barber led the ACC in rushingand all-purpose yards. Prior to coming to Virginia, Powell was runningbacks coach at several colleges, including VMI (1992), Rhode Island(1993-94) and Army (1995). He coached Virginia’s wide receivers the lastthree seasons.
Three other coaches return to the positions they held two years ago. RickLantz, UVa’s defensive coordinator since 1991, will coach the linebackers,while last season’s linebackers coach, David Turner, has been assigned tothe defensive tackles. Turner coached the defensive tackles in 1998. TySmith, last season’s defensive line coach, will coach the defensive ends, aposition he coached at UVa in 1998.