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02/26/2013
Sun Devil Football Names Jackie Shipp to the Coaching Staff
Shipp is a former NFL linebacker who led the Miami Dolphins to the 1985 Super Bowl and who has spent the past 22 years coaching college football, including four national championship games.
12/08/2012
Sun Devil Football Celebrates 2012 Season With Awards Banquet, Ring of Honor Dinner
Thirteen different postseason awards were handed out to football student-athletes
11/09/2012
Punter Hubner Named 2012 Ray Guy Award Semifinalist
Josh Hubner leads the Pac-12 in yards per punt
02/29/2012
Coach Todd Graham's first ever Fan Forum
Season Ticket holders ask Coach Graham and Brandon Magee Questions
02/11/2012
ASU Football Coach Todd Graham Announces Full-Time Coaching Staff Organizational Chart
Arizona State University head football coach Todd Graham, who completed his full-time coaching staff Friday with the appointment of Larry Porter, today announced his full-time assistant coaching organizational chart and responsibilities list.
Joe Lorig enters his second season at Arizona State under head coach Todd Graham.
Prior to joining the Sun Devils, Lorig completed his fourth season as the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Central Washington University.
During his time at Central Washington, the Wildcats posted a 34-12 record with three Great Northwest Athletic Conference championships and two appearances in the NCAA Division II playoffs. Lorig, whose Wildcat defense routinely placed among the top 10 in the nation in total defense, was named the 2010 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Division II Assistant Coach of the Year.
In 2009, his defense led the NCAA Division II in scoring defense (11.9 points/game), and ranked third nationally in rushing defense (58.6 yards/game) and fourth in total defense (249.3 yards/game), earning him a spot as a finalist for the FootballScoop Division II Coordinator of the Year. His efforts helped the Wildcats finish that year at 12-1, earn a No. 1 national ranking in the final poll of the regular season and advance to the NCAA Division II quarterfinals.
In 2007, Lorig served as the linebackers coach at the University of Texas at El Paso. He spent one season on head coach Mike Price's staff before moving back to the Pacific Northwest to join the CWU coaching staff. Prior to UTEP, Lorig spent eight seasons as a defensive assistant with Idaho State University. He coached the linebackers and safeties at ISU, and was the defensive coordinator for head coach Larry Lewis from 2003-06.
His coaching career began as an assistant at Western Oregon, where he helped guide his alma mater to the 1997 Columbia Football Association championship and a berth in the NAIA post-season. A two-time All-Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) honoree at cornerback at Walla Walla Community College, Lorig played his final two years of collegiate football at Western Oregon State College (now Western Oregon University), where he was a team captain.
He has mentored a number of professional players, including Jared Allen, an All-Pro defensive end from Idaho State who plays with the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, Pago Togafau of the Arizona Cardinals, Jeff Charleston, the starting defensive end for the New Orleans Saints and Adam Bighill, a Division II All-American linebacker from CWU who was a rookie on the Grey Cup champion British Columbia Lions in 2011.
Lorig earned both his bachelor's degree in Law Enforcement(1995) and his master's in Correctional Administration (1997) from Western Oregon. A native of Edmonds, Wash., and an avid outdoorsman, his family includes his wife, Becky, and children: son, Tyler, and daughters, Jordan and Emma.
