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Ricky Logo
Ricky Logo

Hometown:
Santa Ana, Calif.
High School:
Spencer (Ga.)
Position:
Defensive Line Coach
Experience:
Second Season
Alma Mater:
NC State, 1992

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Coaching Accomplishments
• Ricky Logo enters his second season as an assistant at the University of Houston and will tutor the entire defensive line in 2013.

• Logo has experience coaching each position along the defensive line. His resume includes working with NFL All-Pro defensive linemen Osi Umenyiora of the New York Giants and Demarcus Ware of the Dallas Cowboys, both of whom starred for Logo at Troy.

• The 2012 season saw Logo oversee a defensive tackle group that was hit hard by the injury bug combine for 89 tackles and three fumble recoveries.

• Overall the Santa Ana, Calif., native spent five seasons in Troy, Ala., three as the defensive line coach and two more as the program's co-defensive coordinator. He left that position in 2007 to become the defensive line coach at Vanderbilt.

• While at Vanderbilt the defensive front made incredible strides and two of his players, Curtis Gatewood and Theo Horrocks, signed NFL free agent contracts. He was also part of a staff that led Vandy to its first winning season since 1982 thanks to a 16-14 victory over Boston College in the 2008 Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl.

• A strong relationship with former Vanderbilt Head Coach Bruce Fowler took Logo to Furman for the 2011 season. The Paladins went 6-5 this season in their first season, including wins over two top-five programs.

• Logo began his coaching career in 1995 at Chattanooga. He worked with the Mocs' defensive line and advanced to defensive coordinator just a few years later in 2001. He then spent one season at Western Carolina as assistant head coach and defensive line coach before his move to Troy.

• Logo played collegiately along the defensive line at North Carolina State. The Wolfpack advanced to four consecutive bowl games and he was named both team captain and All-ACC in 1992 as a senior. N.C. State went 32-16-1 during his four seasons and he finished his playing career with the Detroit Lions of the NFL before suffering a career-ending injury as a rookie.

• Logo graduated from North Carolina State in 1992 with a degree in sociology.

Prominent Pupils
• Demarcus Ware (Troy), Cowboys
Seven-time NFL Pro Bowler
2004 Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year
2004 Hendricks Award finalist
• Osi Umenyiora (Troy), Giants
Two-time NFL Pro Bowler
2002 Honorable Mention All-American
• Tim Fugger (Vanderbilt), Cardinals

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