Fran Brown announced coaching changes to his Syracuse Orange football coaching staff during his weekly press conference on Monday.
Wide Receivers coach Myles White is no longer with the program. QC/Offensive
Specialist Josh Gattis will take over his roles on the Syracuse coaching staff, which include passing game coordinator duties.
Nunzio Campanile and Michael Johnson Sr. will also swap roles. Campanile will be Syracuse’s tight ends coach while Johnson will become Syracuse’s quarterbacks coach.
“I feel like when you make some of those decisions and those things now, it gives you an opportunity to see if it works,” said Brown.
Brown makes the chance as the Orange are on a five-game losing streak. Syracuse has only scored six offensive touchdowns during that span. The Orange have failed to reach 20 points during the losing streak.
Gattis, a former safety at Wake Forest, has been a wide receivers coach since 2011. He won the Broyles Award in 2021 as the top assistant coach in college football. He was the wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator with Michigan at the time. Gattis joined Syracuse as a QC/Offensive Specialist in March earlier this year.
“He’s a strong personality that coaches with a lot of passion,” said Brown on Gattis. “I think that our wide receiver room needs it.”
Both Campanile and Johnson are experienced in their new roles. Campanile was a tight ends coach at Rutgers. He was also hired initially by Dino Babers to be Syracuse’s tight ends coach in 2023. Johnson has been a quarterbacks coach for Oregon State, the San Diego Chargers, the Atlanta Falcons, the San Francisco 49ers and for Florida Atlantic.
White was in his first year as Syracuse’s passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach. He had taken over for Ross Douglas, who left the Orange for the same position at Oregon.
Brown’s new-look coaching staff gets its first opportunity to showcase its work against Miami on Saturday. Kickoff is set for 3:30 pm on ESPN. The Orange sit at 3-6 on the season with three games left.
