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Report: New Oklahoma Co-DC Will Bring Assistant from Jacksonville State

Henry Weinreich was a defensive analyst at Jacksonville State with Alley under Rich Rodriguez.
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Report: New Oklahoma Co-DC Will Bring Assistant from Jacksonville State
Report: New Oklahoma Co-DC Will Bring Assistant from Jacksonville State

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New co-defensive coordinator Zac Alley will bring a key staff member with him to Oklahoma.

That’s according to a report Monday from Football Scoop’s Zach Barnett.

Henry Weinreich, who was a senior defensive analyst at Jacksonville State under Alley, is expected to take a similar post on Brent Venables’ staff at OU.

Weinreich worked with Alley the past two seasons at JSU. He joined the Gamecocks’ program as a graduate assistant under John Grass in 2020, and stayed on staff as a defensive analyst under Rich Rodriguez.

Football Scoop reported that Rodriguez created the position of senior defensive analyst in order to keep Weinreich on staff.

Weinreich was previously a GA at Division II West Georgia and served as defensive line coach and strength coach at Division III Rhodes College in Tennessee. He began his college football career as a volunteer assistant coach at Division III Washington University in St. Louis assisting with the defensive line.

Venables officially hired Alley last week after Alley spent two two seasons under Rodriguez at JSU and one year at Louisiana-Monroe under Terry Bowden. He was a student assistant or grad assistant at Clemson for seven years under Venables before taking a full-time on-field role at Boise State.

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JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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