After going more than two weeks without a head coach, a stretch that included a yeoman’s effort on National Signing Day, it appears Central Michigan has finally found the man to lead its football program into 2015.
While the school has yet to confirm or announce it, Hondo Carpenter of SpartanNation.com is reporting that CMU is set to hire John Bonamego as its next head coach. If the report comes to fruition, Bonamengo would replace Dan Enos, who abruptly left CMU Jan. 22 to take the offensive coordinator job at Arkansas.
Bonamengo has spent the past two seasons as the special teams coordinator of the NFL’s Detroit Lions. The 51-year-old Bonamengo has spent the past 16 seasons at the NFL level, with all of that time spent coaching special teams either as the coordinator or an assistant.
The last time Bonamengo coached in the collegiate ranks came as an assistant at Army from 1993-98. His only other college stops were at Lehigh (1992) and Maine (1988-91).
This will also mark Bonamengo’s first head-coaching job at any level.
