Indiana University Athletics
Football

- Title:
- Quality Control - Special Teams
- Email:
- football@iu.edu
Ryan McInerney is in his 11th season as a quality control assistant for special teams and his first on staff for Curt Cignetti.
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In 10 seasons with the program (2014-present), McInerney has worked with a pair of Big Ten Bakken-Anderson Kicker of the Year award winners, helped Jaylin Lucas earn Big Ten Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year and seen nine pupils earn All-Big Ten on special teams.
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Lucas was a first-team All-America selection and Freshman All-America pick in 2022 after he returned a nation-best two kickoffs for touchdowns. Long snapper Sean Wracher was a two-time semifinalist for the Patrick Mannelly in 2022 and 2023.
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He spent five seasons at TCU (2010-13) prior to arriving in Bloomington with three as a defensive graduate assistant after one as a video graduate assistant. The 2011 Horned Frogs won the Mountain West and beat Louisiana Tech in the Poinsettia Bowl, before the program transitioned to the Big 12.
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McInerney made stops as a defensive graduate assistant at the University of Louisiana-Monroe (2009) and served as the tight ends coach and GA at Central Connecticut State.
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He began his coaching career as a varsity defensive and offensive line coach at Southeast High School (2008) in Cherokee, Kansas.
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A four-year letterwinner at Pittsburgh State University, McInerney was the starting center in all seven of the Gorillas’ NCAA Division II Playoff games and helped the program to a national runner-up finish in 2004.


