Colorado University Athletics
Football
Nov 8 (Sat)
10 a.m.
- Title:
- Assistant Director of Quality Control
Joe Bleymaier is in his first year as the director of quality control for the University of Colorado football program. He was promoted from the assistant’s position on August 1, 2015, having worked in that role for two years after he joined Mike MacIntyre’s first Buffalo staff on April 15, 2013.
Bleymaier, 33, graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor’s degree in History in 2005, and earned his J.D. degree in Law from Marquette University in 2009.
At Delaware, he lettered four years for coach K.C. Keeler at wide receiver (2002-05), where he had 74 career receptions for 864 yards (11.7 per catch) and 10 touchdowns; he also scored a touchdown rushing. His playing career did not overlap with quarterback Joe Flacco, who transferred to Delaware in 2005 but was ineligible to play until the following season, but they were teammates Bleymaier’s senior year. As a sophomore in 2003, when he started seven games, the Blue Hens finished with a 15-1 record, capped off with a 40-0 win over Colgate to win the I-AA National Championship.
He was an assistant coach at Milwaukee’s Wauwatosa East High School for the 2006 and 2007 seasons while attending law school, and spent three summers (2007-09) as a football operations intern with the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football League. After he earned his law degree, he moved out west where he worked the better part of two years as the assistant director of compliance at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. In the spring of 2011, he moved to Mountain View, Calif., and co-founded an early stage tech start-up with his younger brother, Tom.
He was born August 9, 1982 in Boise, Idaho, and spent his entire childhood there, as he is the son of longtime Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier (who is now the AD at San Jose State). He graduated from Boise’s Bishop Kelly High School where he lettered in football, basketball and baseball. He was a three-time Academic All-Atlantic 10 Conference team member his sophomore through senior years at Delaware and was the Newark Elks Club Scholar Athlete of the Year and Outstanding Senior at End for 2005. He is married to the former Stephanie Gilbertson.
