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St. Louis Rams Assistant Head Coach Rob Boras '92 Profiled in Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Rams Assistant Head Coach Rob Boras '92 Profiled in Post-Dispatch

April 16, 2015

"Rob’s going to have a lot more input, I’ll put it that way, as far as which direction we go," says St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher of Rob Boras, the NFL team's tight ends coach, who has added the title of assistant head coach/offense.  A 1992 graduate of DePauw University, Boras is featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The piece by Jim Thomas notes, "Boras, 44, was born in suburban Chicago. In college, he was a four-year starter at center at NCAA Division III DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. Football aside, the plan was to go to law school after completing his undergraduate degree. But along the way, Boras couldn’t help but notice how much fun DePauw coach Nick Mourouzis had on a daily basis."

"He never had a bad day in his life," Boras says of his college coach, who led the Tigers from 1981-2003. "The guy’s energy and enthusiasm was just contagious. About my third year in (at DePauw), I’m like, ‘You know what, if I could do this for the rest of my life, I’d be the happiest person on earth.’"

Thomas adds, "When he called his parents to tell them he was getting into coaching, and not going to law school, they took the news much better than expected. At age 21, fresh out of school, Boras was named offensive line coach at DePauw. 'I was gonna give it two years and see if I liked it,' Boras said. That was 1992." (at left: Boras talks with Rams' quarterback Sam Bradford at a 2012 practice; photo by Emily Rasinski/Post-Dispatch)

A political science major at DePauw, Rob Boras spent two seasons  (1992-93) as an assistant for Mourouzis, then served as an assistant for four seasons at the University of Texas (1994-97); spent the 1998 season as head coach of NCAA Division III Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill.; and worked five seasons at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, where he was head coach John Robinson's offensive coordinator for three years. The NFL resume of Boras includes serving as tight ends coach for the Chicago Bears (2004-09) and the Jacksonville Jaguars (2010-2011). 

According to Fisher, "Rob really does an outstanding job, particularly in our running game and creation of the running game, and then pairing the running game up with the play-action passing. That’s where Rob, I think, his value is. So he’s expanded that."

rob boras 2004ctThe complete story, headlined "Boras' profile with Rams grows" and available here, appears in the Post-Dispatch today, which is the 78th birthday of Nick Mourouzis.

Boras brought his college coach with him when the Bears played in 2007's Super Bowl XLI.  It's covered in this previous story.

Boras is also the subject of this summary and can be seen below in a video which aired during the 1991 Monon Bell Classic telecast.

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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