Sources: Badgers working with Grinch as securities coach

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJan 25, 2024, 03:16 PM ET

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• College football press reporter.
• Signed up with ESPN.com in 2008.
• Graduate of Northwestern University.Wisconsin is working with Alex Grinch, who was fired as USC’s protective organizer this past November, as its brand-new safeties coach, sources told ESPN.Grinch supervise USC’s defense after previous coordinator stints at Oklahoma

  , Ohio State and Washington State. USC coach Lincoln Riley fired him Nov. 5 after the defense had actually surrendered 101 points during its previous 2 games. Riley, who brought Grinch with him from Oklahoma to USC, stuck to him in spite of the defense’s struggles toward the end of the 2022 season.Grinch, 43, an Ohio local, go back to the Big Ten after spending the 2018 season as Ohio State’s co-defensive organizer and safeties

  coach alongside main coordinator Greg Schiano. He has coached defensive backs throughout his career and worked with the securities at Missouri, Ohio State, Oklahoma and USC.Grinch played security at Mount Union and won three Division III national titles. He has worked under Chip Kelly at New Hampshire, Mike Leach at Washington State, Urban Meyer at Ohio

  State and after that Riley.The Wisconsin State Journal first reported Wisconsin’s hiring of Grinch.