Football
Sep 27 (Sat)
8:15 PM
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Dave Borbely is in his fourth year as offensive line coach, as he joined the Colorado staff on February 15, 2002. He also coaches the offensive field goal/PAT unit on special teams.
Borbely, 46, came to CU with an outstanding resume, topped off by spending four seasons at Notre Dame (1998-2001). In South Bend, he coached the entire offensive line in 1998 and 1999 and solely the guards and centers in 2000 and 2001. While with the Irish, he coached in two New Year’s Day bowls (’99 Gator and ’01 Fiesta), as was on the same staff in 1998 as the late CU co-defensive coordinator Tom McMahon. His 2000 Notre Dame line, anchored by third-team All-American Mike Gandy, helped pave the way for the Irish to average 213.5 yards rushing per game, 14th in the nation.
In his first year at Colorado (2002), the Buffs finished sixth in the NCAA in rushing, largely due to an offensive line, minus two NFL draft picks, melding together. He worked with a young line with only one returning starter in 2003 and an offense that switched gears from being predominantly a rushing team to a passing unit, but set the group up well for the future. His 2004 unit, with just two returning starters at the onset, allowed just 20 quarterback sacks, the second fewest per game in a CU season when the Buffs also amassed 2,000-plus passing yards.
He was set to coach the offensive line at Kansas in the spring of 2002, but the CU position opened when Steve Marshall left the Buffs a little over a month later to join the NFL expansion Houston Texans. Gary Barnett made quick work to get him to Boulder.
A 1981 graduate of DePauw University, he earned his degree in history while lettering four times in football, being named the team’s top lineman twice. His first taste of coaching came at the University of Evansville, where he worked two years (1981-82) as a graduate assistant while earning his master’s degree in secondary education.
He moved on to become the defensive line coach for the freshman team at Penn in 1983 (a part-time position), and then worked the next two seasons as a graduate assistant at Tennessee, with both Volunteer teams going to bowl games (?84 Sun and ’86 Sugar).
His first full-time coaching position followed at Rice University in the fall of 1986, and it was the first of four successive three-year stints at different programs around the country. He moved from Rice to Temple in 1989, then to Tulane in 1992 and then to Stanford in 1995 before settling at Notre Dame in 1998. Along the entire way he coached the offensive line, and he was also a coach of two Stanford teams that went to the postseason (’95 Liberty and ’96 Sun bowls). No less than six of the players he has coached have been drafted into the National Football League.
He was born April 5, 1959 in Hammond, Ind., and graduated from Hammond (Ind.) High, where he lettered in football, baseball and wrestling. He is married to the former Bev Beard, and they have three children, Joseph (16), Laura (14) and Brian (12).
