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Kyle Flood has finalized his coaching staff for the upcoming Rutgers football season.

(Photo by Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger)

Rutgers coach Kyle Flood finally completed his coaching staff, doing so by making four moves today, including the hiring of former Kansas State head coach Ron Prince as offensive coordinator and elevating linebackers coach Dave Cohen to defensive coordinator, the school announced.

In addition, running backs coach Norries Wilson added the title of assistant coach while graduate assistant coach Anthony Campanile was named a full-time offensive assistant.

Prince, 43, was the head coach at Kansas State from 2006-08, compiling a 17-20 record. He served as offensive coordinator at Virginia prior to that, from 2001-05, and was the offensive line assistant for the Indianapolis Colts in 2010-11 and for the Jacksonville Jaguars last year.

His anticipated hiring was delayed because he interviewed with the New Orleans Saints to be their running backs coach – a job he was passed over for.

Prince replaces Dave Brock, who left after one year as offensive coordinator to become the head coach at Delaware.

Cohen, 46, previously served as defensive coordinator at both Delaware and Hofstra and was brought in by Flood last season to coach the linebackers. He replaces Robb Smith, who left earlier this month to become the linebackers coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Wilson will be in his second season at Rutgers, earning additional responsibilities after running back Jawan Jamison became just the third Scarlet Knights running back since 1975 to top 1,000 yards.

Campanile, who played linebacker and safety at Rutgers from 2001-04, moves to the offensive side where he will handle the wide receivers and tight ends, Flood said, after serving as a graduate assistant on defense last season.

The tight ends position opened when Darnell Dinkins left to pursue other interests, Flood said.

Flood also added Darrell Wilson to his staff as the secondary coach last week, filling a vacancy that was also created by Smith's departure, since Smith handled the secondary as well. Wilson, the former head coach at Woodrow Wilson High in Camden, spent the past 11 years as an assistant at Iowa.

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