William Inge (born ), also known as Bill Ennis-Inge, is an

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coach and former player. He is the co-

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and

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s coach at the

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. Inge played football at the

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from 1993 to 1996, and has served in various assistant coach roles at the college and professional level for over twenty years.

Early life and playing career

William Inge was born in

Kirkwood, Missouri Kirkwood is an inner-ring western suburb of St. Louis located in St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 27,540. Founded in 1853, the city is named after James P. Kirkwood, builder of the Pacific Railroad th ...

, to Beverly Ennis Inge and William Inge. He played football at

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and was a three-year starter at the

under head coach

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, playing

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there from 1993 to 1996. During his freshman year, his left kidney was surgically removed, and he played out his career with one kidney. Further adversity came during his senior year, when his father died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 48. The

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of the

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signed Inge as a free agent in 1997, but concerns about Inge's physical condition ended his career.

Coaching career

Inge began his coaching career in 1998 as a graduate assistant and recruiting coordinator at Iowa. Inge continued in that role in 1999 when Hayden Fry retired and

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succeeded Fry as head coach. In 2001,

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head coach

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, then in his first year, hired Inge as his linebackers coach. Inge spent the next four years at Northern Iowa, becoming the defensive line coach in 2003 and the co-

and special teams coach in 2004. He left Northern Iowa in 2005 to coach the defensive line at the

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under head coach

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; the 2005 team posted a 7–6 record and Barnett resigned at the end of the season. New

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head coach

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hired Inge to be linebackers coach, a position Inge held from 2006 to 2007. Inge was one of several former Iowa Hawkeyes on the staff under Long, himself a former coach and player there, although he and Inge did not overlap at the school. Inge left after the 2007 season to become linebackers coach at the

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under head coach Brian Kelly. Inge coached at Cincinnati for the 2008 and 2009 seasons, Kelly's final two at Cincinnati before taking the head coaching job at the

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. Following the 2009 season, Inge followed offensive coordinator

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to the

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as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. He participated in the NFL's Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Fellowship in 2011 and coached linebackers with

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. In 2012, Inge joined Wannstedt on the defensive staff of the NFL's

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as assistant defensive line coach. Inge held the job for a single season before departing to join Kevin Wilson's staff at the

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as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. Inge remained at Indiana for seven years, remaining on staff after Tom Allen replaced at the end of the 2016 season. Inge held various titles during his tenure there, including special teams coordinator/linebackers coach (2016), linebackers coach (2017), and special teams coordinator (2018–2019). Indiana hired

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to be offensive coordinator for the 2019 season. Following that season, DeBoer returned to Fresno State as its new head coach and took Inge with him as defensive coordinator. When DeBoer departed after the 2021 season to become head coach at the

, Inge again went with him as co-defensive coordinator (with Chuck Morrell) and safeties coach.

References

External links

Fresno State profile
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