Notre Dame expected to hire Virginia Tech's Joe Rudolph as offensive line coach

Notre Dame is expected to hire Joe Rudolph as the new offensive line coach, according to On3’s Matt Zenitz.

Rudolph joined Virginia Tech prior to last season as the offensive line coach and run-game coordinator under Brent Pry. Prior to the Hokies, Rudolph coached at Wisconsin for seven seasons under Paul Chryst as the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and offensive line coach.

Rudolph’s coaching career started back in 2004 with Ohio State as a grad assistant for three years before going to Nebraska in 2007.

After Nebraska, Rudolph joined Wisconsin as the tight ends coach in 2008. After four seasons in Madison, Rudolph left for Pitt where he became the offensive coordinator for three seasons.

During the 2014 season, Rudolph became the interim head coach and lost his lone game.

He rejoined Wisconsin in 2015. Now, Rudolph will coach under second-year coach Marcus Freeman.

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Rudolph played football at Wisconsin before two seasons on the offensive line with the Philadelphia Eagles (1995) and the San Francisco 49ers (1997).

New Notre Dame offensive coordinator Gerard Parker speaks

Gerad Parker has coached many positions from running backs to receivers to tight ends. Now, he feels that experience has prepared him well as he gets set to lead an entire offense.

Parker was the tight ends coach at Notre Dame this past season but received a promotion to offensive coordinator this offseason. He got his start in coaching in 2007 as a graduate assistant at Kentucky before later spending three seasons at UT-Martin, coaching both running backs and receivers.

In a press conference from earlier this week, Parker gave credit to those early stops in shaping him as a coach and teaching him how to work with multiple positions.

“I think to plug a guy that’s been one of my biggest mentors in the profession is Randy Sanders,” he said. “Randy Sanders is the quarterbacks coach at the University of Kentucky at the time. Joker Phillips was the coordinator. I saw two guys that were pros function that way in my first job as a GA. It was phenomenal to see them do it and do it at a very high level. So Randy helps get me the job with Jason Simpson at UT-Martin. I coached running backs.

“I was scared to death. I had no clue. I was a wideouts guy who had just got done (as a graduate assistant) with offensive line. So to go do something that you really felt, ‘wow,’ was a big step for me and taught me a lesson in being prepared and taking steps. I think coaching the running backs in my first job then moving to wide receivers then being allowed to do things I wasn’t prepared to do allowed you to develop this huge scope of things in how to teach and learn ball. Develop some things of what you want to do or not want to do. That drove me.”