Fifteen months after Kyle Flood's tumultuous Rutgers football tenure came to an end, the former Scarlet Knights coach is back on the sidelines.
In the wake of their Super Bowl 51 loss to the New England Patriots, the Atlanta Falcons have hired Flood as an assistant offensive line coach, the team announced Friday morning.
That Flood would resurface in Atlanta makes sense since he formerly worked with Falcons head coach Dan Quinn at Hofstra in the late 1990s.
Former Rutgers offensive coordinator Dave Brock, who was fired as Delaware head coach following the 2016 season, also joined the Falcons staff as an offensive assistant. Brock also has ties with Quinn from their Hofstra days.
Rutgers fired Flood on Nov. 29, 2015, after the Scarlet Knights capped a 4-8 campaign, ending a tumultuous campaign that saw Flood get suspended for three-games for violating a university compliance policy and the arrests of seven players on various charges.
In December, the NCAA issued a Notice of Allegations report accusing the Flood-led Rutgers football program of a string of violations.
The allegations enveloping the Rutgers football program involve drug use by players and Flood's violation of the university's compliance policy for contacting faculty and attempting to change a player's grade.
In addition, the NCAA alleges that women in the football team's "ambassador" program freelanced with recruits and their families, operating against the rules with no supervision.
Flood, Rutgers' head football coach from 2012 through the 2015 season, was tagged with a possible show-cause order. That means, if a hearing concludes he violated NCAA infractions for providing an extra benefit to a player by contacting a professor and attempting to make him eligible, he will have to clear significant hurdles in order to coach college football again.
During his SiriusXM Radio spot the following day, Flood said he looks forward to defending himself at a hearing later this year.
"Some of the allegations were situations that we discovered on our own and submitted to the NCAA,'' Flood said on Dec. 21, 2016. "Some of the issues are athletic-department oversight issues and some of the issues I disagree with.''
Here is the press release from the Falcons announcing Flood's hiring:
The Atlanta Falcons have hired Dave Brock as an offensive assistant, Kyle Flood as the assistant offensive line coach, Bush Hamdan as the team's quarterbacks coach, and Charlie Jackson as a defensive assistant. The team has also hired Justin Outten as an offensive assistant, Jess Simpson as a defensive assistant, and Charlie Weis Jr. as an offensive assistant.
Flood brings 23 years of coaching experience to the Falcons. He recently served as the head coach for the Rutgers football team from 2012-15. He became the first head coach in team history to lead the program to three bowl games in his first three years as head coach. Before being named head coach, he spent seven years on the Scarlet Knights staff, seeing time as the offensive line coach since joining the program in 2005, and was eventually promoted to assistant head coach in 2008.
In 2007, Flood was in charge of the run game as the running game coordinator and from 2009-10 he was the co-offensive coordinator. Before coaching at Rutgers, he spent three years at the University of Delaware where he was the assistant head coach and offensive line coach. Flood was the offensive line coach at Hofstra University from 1997-01.
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