Football
Oct 4 (Sat)
5:30 p.m.
- Title:
- Director of Quality Control
Omar Young is in his second year as the director of quality control for the defense and special teams at the University of Colorado, having joined Mike MacIntyre’s first Buffalo staff on February 26, 2013.? He also coordinates special projects for the head coach.
Young, 30, joined the Colorado staff from San Jose State, where he spent the previous two years (2011-12) under MacIntyre as a graduate assistant.? He worked with the special teams in addition to handling the Spartans’ quality control duties, assisted in a variety of other areas such as recruiting, game plans and scouting reports, and coached in SJSU’s 29-20 win over Bowling Green in the Military Bowl.? When MacIntyre accepted the CU job, he created CU’s first-ever quality control position and brought in the experienced Young to fill the role.
He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in History from Savannah State University in 2005, and earned his Master’s in Sport Management from the University of San Francisco in 2008.? At San Jose State, he was working on a second Master’s degree, this time in Counselor Education.
Young first attended Willamette University in Salem, Ore., where played two years as a defensive back for coach Mark Speckman.? He earned honorable mention All-Northwest Conference honors in 2001 when he was the Bearcats’ co-freshman of the year.
While completing his undergraduate degree, he worked as a student assistant and video coordinator for Savannah State’s football program, essentially starting his coaching career path in 2004.? Two years later, in 2006, he returned to his native Oakland and served an assistant coach (receivers, secondary) at Fremont High School, and then moved on to the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League for the 2007 season, working as a player personnel intern.?
After the AFL season was concluded, he worked as an administrative assistant and player liaison for the 2007 Emerald Bowl game in San Francisco between Oregon State and Maryland.? Young then spent time with the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, working the 2008 season in player personnel and as a pro scout intern.
He then returned to coaching, first with De Anza College (Cupertino, Calif.) as receivers coach in 2009, and then the following year as the secondary coach and special teams coordinator for Minnesota State University (Moorhead, Minn.).? He again returned west in March 2011 where he was the receivers coach for spring practices at Contra Costa College (San Pablo, Calif.) before joining MacIntyre four months later.
He was born September 3, 1983 in Oakland, Calif., and graduated from St. Mary College High School just up the road in Berkeley, where he lettered in football and baseball.? Active in community service, he is the planning committee chair for the Lorenzo Alexander ACES Foundation, which was created to provide enrichment programs for youth in both Oakland and the Greater Washington D.C. areas.? He is married to the former Noel McCargar, who is a high school English teacher.
