Odom Adds Three More To Football Staff
LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) –New UNLV football head coach Barry Odom continued to round out his first Rebel staff with the announcement of three more hires Wednesday.
Vance Vice will coach the offensive line, Ricky Logo will oversee the defensive line and Jeff Fish will serve as Director of Football Strength and Conditioning for the Rebels.
A veteran at his position, Vice most recently spent six seasons at Virginia Tech from 2016-21 as the Hokies produced three of their top four seasons for total offense over the past 25 years during his tenure. In fact, under Vice in 2020, Virginia Tech set a school record with 5.58 rushing yards per carry. The Hokies led the ACC that season by averaging 240.1 rushing YPG, the program's best mark since 2000, highlighted by Khalil Herbert's 1,182 rushing yards. Vice also tutored future NFL First Round Draft Pick Christian Darrisaw, who was selected 23rd overall out of Va Tech by the Minnesota Vikings in 2021. Before moving to Blacksburg, Vice also coached under Justin Fuente at the University of Memphis for four seasons (2012-15). In 2014, the Tigers scored a school-record 471 points and led the American Athletic Conference with a 36.2 scoring average. He was part of a staff that led Memphis to what tied for the ninth-best turnaround all-time as the AAC champion Tigers posted their first 10-win season since 1938. The 10-3 Tigers won their final six league games to win the AAC championship and went on to down BYU in the inaugural Miami Beach Bowl. Before moving to Memphis, Vice spent three seasons as the offensive line coach at ULM (2009-11), four years in the same role at Utah State (2005-08) and five seasons at Illinois State (2000-04) where he was promoted to assistant head coach his final two seasons with the Redbirds. Vice started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Georgia from 1990-91, before working at Hart County (Georgia) High School from 1992-95. He returned to the collegiate level from 1996-98, coaching tight ends at Clemson before spending one year (1999) at Murray State as the offensive line coach. Vice was a defensive lineman and tight end at Oklahoma State and made three bowl trips with the Cowboys. The three-time All-Big Eight academic selection graduated from OSU in 1990 with a degree in secondary education. He earned a master's degree in education administration from Georgia in 1993 and an education specialist degree from Clemson in 1999. He and his wife, Kerry, have two daughters, Savannah and Sydni, and a son, Brock.
VICE'S COACHING FILE
2023-PR UNLV – Offensive Line
2016-21 Virginia Tech – Offensive Line
2012-15 Memphis – Offensive Line
2009-11 ULM – Offensive Line
2005-08 Utah State – Offensive Line
2003-04 Illinois State – Assistant Head Coach, Offensive Line
2000-02 Illinois State – Offensive Line
1999 Murray State – Offensive Line
1996-98 Clemson – Tight Ends
1992-95 Hart County HS – Passing Coordinator, Wide Receivers, Tight Ends
1990-91 Georgia – Graduate Assistant
An accomplished line coach who has spent time in the Pac-12, SEC and Mountain West, Logo comes to Las Vegas after recently finishing a season coaching the defensive line on head coach Terry Bowden's staff at ULM. Prior to joining the Warhawks, Logo was at Washington State in 2020-21 as defensive tackles coach for head coach Nick Rolovich. In his first season in Pullman, the Wazzu defense produced four All-Pac-12 selections, led the league with eight forced fumbles and was fourth in rush defense (154.8), a 30-yard improvement from the previous season. Logo worked the 2018-19 seasons coaching the defensive line for Rolovich at Hawai'i, helping UH to back-to-back bowl games including a 10-5 mark and Hawaii Bowl win over BYU in 2019. Logo tutored four All-Mountain West selections his last two seasons in Honolulu and saw the 2018 defense tally 30 sacks, the most for UH in seven years. Prior to Hawai'i, he worked three seasons at Colorado State (2015-17) as defensive line coach, helping lead the Rams to three bowl appearances. Prior to moving to Fort Collins, Logo coached the defensive line at Houston (2012-14), helping the Cougars to a 2014 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl victory, and worked one season at Furman University. Logo coached four seasons in the SEC at Vanderbilt (2007-10) and was part of a staff that led the Commodores to their first winning season since 1982. Logo also worked five seasons at Troy University, two as co-defensive coordinator where he coached a pair of future NFL All-Pro linemen in Osi Umenyiora (New York Giants) and Demarcus Ware (Dallas Cowboys). Logo began his coaching career at Tennessee-Chattanooga in 1995 where he spent six seasons as the Mocs' defensive line coach before being promoted to defensive coordinator for one season in 2001. He spent one season at Western Carolina (2002), where he also assumed the title as assistant head coach. Logo played nose tackle at North Carolina State, helping the Wolfpack to four consecutive bowl games. As a senior in 1992, he was named team captain, earned All-ACC and Third Team All-America honors and played in the Hula Bowl, the Japan All-Star Game and the East-West Shrine Game. The Santa Ana, California, native earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from North Carolina State.
LOGO'S COACHING FILE
2023-PR UNLV – Defensive Line
2022 ULM – Defensive Line
2020-21 Washington State – Defensive Line
2018-19 Hawai'i – Defensive Line
2015-17 Colorado State – Defensive Line
2012-14 Houston – Defensive Line
2011 Furman – Defensive Line
2007-10 Vanderbilt – Defensive Line
2005-06 Troy – Co-Defensive Coordinator, Defensive Line
2002-04 Troy – Defensive Line
2002 Western Carolina – Assistant Head Coach, Defensive Line
2001 UT Chattanooga – Defensive Coordinator
1995-2000 UT Chattanooga – Defensive Line
A former longtime NFL and NBA strength and conditioning coach, Fish returns to college football with the Rebels in 2023. He was in private business in the sports performance world for the last half-decade after serving as the Director of Performance and Head of Strength and Conditioning for the NBA's Phoenix Suns from 2017-18. Previous to that, Fish ran his own elite performance facility and served as a consultant after spending nearly a decade in the NFL, working as the Director of Athletic Performance for the Atlanta Falcons from 2008-12 and the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the then-Oakland Raiders from 2004-07. Before returning to the professional level, Fish worked at the University of Missouri serving as Director of Strength & Conditioning for the Tiger athletics department from 2001-03. From 1998-2000, he was an assistant with the Kansas City Chiefs in his first NFL stint. Previous collegiate stops as a director came at Tulsa (1995-97) and Kent State (1994-95) after he was an assistant at Clemson from 1991-93. Fish, who has developed four of his assistants into head NFL strength coaches and three others who would be voted an NCAA Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year, holds the distinction of being the first Director of Performance named on both the NFL and NBA levels. The only NFL strength and conditioning coach to be a member of the NIKE advisory board from 2012-14, the native of Ithaca, New York, began his coaching career as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach at Western Michigan from 1989-91. A collegiate wide receiver at Western Carolina from 1986-88, Fish also played one season as a shortstop on the Catamount baseball squad. He earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from WCU in 1989 and his master of science in exercise science from Western Michigan in 1991.
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