Bret Ingalls Position: Offensive Line Coach/Running Game Coordinator Birthdate: 08/19/1960 Experience: Third Year

With 21-plus years of college coaching experience, Bret Ingalls is in his third season with the Wildcats. Ingalls serves as the team's offensive line coach. In January of 2008, he also assumed the title of running game coordinator.

Ingalls' offensive line blocked for the Big Ten's best passing attack in 2007, averaging 307.9 yards per game through the air. In Ingalls' first season with Northwestern in 2006, then-sophomore Tyrell Sutton compiled 1,000 rushing yards.

Despite starting five players for the majority of the year who did not have extensive starting experience prior to 2008, Ingalls' unit improved with every game of the year. The group ranked second in the conference in sacks allowed and helped pave the way for NU's ground game to earn 141.77 yards per contest.

Before coming to Evanston, Ingalls spent the 2005 season at Miami University, coaching the RedHawks' tight ends and tackles. Prior to coaching one year at Indiana State (2004), he was the offensive coordinator at his alma mater, the University of Idaho, where he also coached the quarterbacks and running backs for two seasons each.

From 2000-02, the Vandals consistently ranked among Division I-AA's top 15 passing offenses and top 30 total offenses. Ingalls coached at Northern Iowa from 1997-99, spending two seasons as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the Gateway Conference power, and was at Louisville from 1995-96 in the same roles. Ingalls was a part of Mike Dunbar's coaching staff at Northern Iowa.

From 1989-93, Ingalls spent time as offensive coordinator (1992-93), offensive line coach (1990-92) and running backs coach (1989, 1993) at San Diego State, where he coached All-American Marshall Faulk, who twice led the nation in rushing, and twice placed the Aztecs among the nation's top 15 in total offense.

Ingalls' coaching career began at Idaho, where he graduated in 1984. After serving as a student defensive backs coach from 1982-83, he was assistant offensive line coach from 1984-85 and running backs coach from 1986-88. Idaho won four Big Sky Conference championships (1982, '85, '87 and '88) during his tenure.

A native of Snohomish, Wash., Ingalls played collegiately as a starting running back at Wichita State (1979-81). He graduated from Idaho in 1984 with a degree in business (management emphasis).

Ingalls and his wife, Diana, have two sons, Samuel and Jack, and a daughter, Breana.

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