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Mike Cassano is in his second season as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Miami. In 2004, Cassano served as a volunteer coach on the UM staff, working primarily with the offense under head coach Larry Coker. This season, he will work again with the offense, this time with the running backs.
Cassano was the running backs coach at the University of Massachusetts from 1998 to 2004. The Minutemen won the Division I-AA national championship in 1998, advanced to the playoffs in 1999 and 2003, and were Atlantic 10 champions in 1999 and 2003. Cassano coached Marcel Shipp, who was a three-time finalist for the Walter Payton Award and three-time Division I-AA All-American. Shipp, who now plays for the Arizona Cardinals, was sixth all-time leading rusher in Division I-AA history.
In 1997, Cassano was the running backs coach at Brown University. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Lehigh University in 1994, and he was a graduate assistant at Eastern Michigan University in 1995 and 1996.
A native of Andover, Mass., Cassano was a two-year letterman at Colgate University and a two-year letterman at the University of New Hampshire. He received a B.S. in physical education at the University of New Hampshire in 1994 and attended graduate school at Lehigh and Eastern Michigan. He is single.
Personal Information
Full Name: Michael Thomas Cassano Jr.
Hometown: Andover, Massachusetts
Education: B.S. in physical education, University of New Hampshire,
Durham, New Hampshire (1994)
Cassano's Coaching Career
2005-06 University of Miami (graduate assistant)
1998-2004 University of Massachusetts (running backs)
1997 Brown University (running backs)
1995-96 Eastern Michigan University (graduate assistant)
1994 Lehigh University (graduate assistant)
Bowl Games as a Coach (2)
2005 Peach Bowl
2004 Peach Bowl
Honors as a Player
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