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Mike Babcock, who will be the tight ends coach and football operations director, comes to USD from the University of Colorado. The past two seasons he was the offensive quality control intern after joining the program in June 2005. Prior to CU he was at UCLA, his alma mater, for five seasons as a member of the coaching staff. He spent three years (2002-04) as a graduate assistant coach after working the two previous years as an undergraduate assistant coach with both the offense and the defense. He played three seasons as an inside linebacker at UCLA, and was a member of the Bruins' 1997 and 1998 Pacific-10 Conference championship teams, which played in the Cotton and Rose bowls, respectively. He earned his B.A. degree in Sociology from UCLA in 2002, , and his M.A. in Education in 2004.
Mike and his wife Kimberly were recently married this past summer.
