University of Arizona head football coach Rich Rodriguez met with the media on Tuesday to preview Saturday's start to spring practice. Below is a brief transcript.
Matt Caponi has been promoted to safeties coach and Andrew Warsaw has been named operations assistant.
Year in Coaching: Ninth
Year at Arizona: Second
In his second season with the Wildcats, Matt Caponi serves as safeties assistant coach. He was a defensive graduate assistant at UA during the 2012 season after being hired by Rodriguez in December 2011. Prior to his arrival in Tucson, he was a graduate assistant at Pittsburgh in 2011 and was the defensive coordinator at Washington and Jefferson College for three seasons (2008-10).
He worked with the linebackers in 2010 and was in charge of the secondary from 2006-09 at W&J. During the 2008 season, the Presidents advanced to the NCAA National Quarterfinals. Caponi got his start in coaching in 2004 as a student assistant at his alma mater, Mount Union College, and was Mount Union's JV coordinator and linebackers coach in 2005.
Caponi was a team captain and starting safety at Mount Union, earning all-conference second-team honors as a senior in 2003. MUC went 55-1 during his four years including three Division III national titles. He earned a degree in physical education in 2005.
Caponi's Coaching History
2012-
Arizona, safeties
2011
Arizona, graduate assistant
2008-10
Washington and Jefferson, defensive coordinator
2006-09
Washington and Jefferson, secondary
2005
Mount Union, linebackers
2004
Mount Union, student assistant
Caponi in the Bowls
2012
Gildan New Mexico Bowl, Arizona graduate assistant
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