After hiring away Ashley Ingram last month from Navy, Carson-Newman University (NCAA Division II) and the program's new coach have found much of the staff's direction for the 2024 campaign.
Ingram has added Chuck Peterson to the Eagles' staff as the program's new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Peterson instantly brings a depth of major-college football experience almost unprecedented at Carson-Newman; he's logged some two decades as a top assistant at both the Air Force Academy and, most recently, the Naval Academy where he worked with Ingram.
Similary, Ingram has moved to retain coaching veteran Larry Slade as the program's defensive coordinator. Like Peterson, Slade also has a rich coaching background that included time as a national championship-winning assistant coach at the University of Tennessee.
Antonio Goss is set to remain as the Eagles' special teams coordinator and a defensive assistant in the secondary.
Ingram also has moved to retain coaching veteran Tony Ierulli, a defensive assistant who works with the Eagles's linebackers. A former NCAA head coach at multiple levels, Ierulli also has deep recruiting ties in East Tennessee.
Defensive line coach Johnson Jamison is being retained, as are quality control coach Caleb Goins and graduate assistant Jonathan Atchley.
The only member of the C-N offensive staff to be retained was line coach Joe Ray.