Boston College makes Iowa's Jim Reid defensive coordinator

BOSTON (AP) Boston College has hired Jim Reid as defensive coordinator. Reid spent the last three years coaching linebackers at Iowa. Reid also will coach

BOSTON (AP) Boston College has hired Jim Reid as defensive coordinator. Reid spent the last three years coaching linebackers at Iowa.

Reid also will coach linebackers at BC.

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Reid is a native of suburban Medford, Massachusetts. He was also the defensive coordinator in Chestnut Hill under Dan Henning in 1994.

He has been in coaching more than 40 years.