Eddie Gran
	Position: Associate HC / Special Teams Coordinator / RB Coach Experience: 3rd Season at FSU Alma Mater: Cal Lutheran '87

The Gran File
Birthdate: July 21, 1965
Hometown:Escondido, CA
High School: Orange Glen
College: Cal Lutheran
Family: wife, Rosemary Scaife Gran; daughters, Hannah, Dillan, Sydney and Lucy Grace.

Coaching Background

• Eddie Gran is in his 26th season of collegiate coaching and his third season at Florida State, where he serves as associate head coach, tutoring the running backs and coordinating special teams.

• Under Gran's direction, Florida State boasted the nation's second-best special teams unit in 2011 based on the Football Outsiders Efficiency Ratings. Shawn Powell became FSU's first consensus All-American punter and the school's all-time leader in multiple punting categories as a three-year starter. Powell led the Football Bowl Subdivision with a 47-yard overall average and the Seminoles ranked second nationally in net punting (41.3). Kicker Dustin Hopkins was named one of three finalists for the Lou Groza Award and enters the 2012 season with 326 career

points, having made 63 of 92 FG attempts (.768) and 137 of 141 PATs, including the last 130 in a row. Gran's return game features some of the most electrifying players in Greg Reid. Lamarcus Joyner and Karlos Williams. Reid is one of the nation's most dangerous punt return specialists who heads into his 2012 needing just 312 yards to break Deion Sanders' career mark for punt return yards. While 2011 was a breakout season for his special teams, Gran's running back corps played behind a banged up offensive line bringing down the group's production from the 2010 season. However, Gran still produced one of the top freshman running backs in FSU history as Devonta Freeman ran for 579 yards - the fifth best single season total by an FSU freshmen. Freeman also led the team with eight rushing touchdowns.

• Gran helped develop Florida State's running game into one of the strongest in the ACC in his first season in Tallahassee in 2009. The Seminoles averaged nearly 5.0 yards per carry and ranked third in the league in rushing touchdowns with 27. The Seminoles ranked fourth in the league in scoring as compared to sixth the year before Gran's arrival. In 2010, three Seminole running backs gained more than 400 yards rushing on the ground led by FSU's leading rusher Chris Thompson, who gained 845 yards. It was only the sixth time in FSU history that a trio gained more than 400 yards in a season. FSU ran for more than 200 yards five times as a team including a 298-yard performance against in-state rival Miami which capped off a string of four consecutive 200-yard rushing games - BYU (278), Wake Forest (201), Virginia (256) and Miami (298). FSU ran for 218 yards in the Chick-fil-A bowl win over SEC East Champion South Carolina.

• Gran spent 15 seasons as a running backs coach and special teams coordinator in the SEC, including 10 years at Auburn, followed by a stop at Tennessee before coming to Florida State in 2010.

Gran has a strong record for developing backfield talent. During his 14 seasons as the assistant to Tommy Tuberville at Ole Miss and Auburn, he sent eight running backs to the NFL, including former Tigers Carnell Williams, Ronnie Brown, Rudi Johnson, Brandon Jacobs, Heath Evans and Kenny Irons. They were preceded by former Rebels Deuce McCallister and John Avery.

• Tennessee's Mario Hardesty (1,345 yards) added his name to the lengthy list of 1,000-yard rushers Gran has worked with over the course of his career in `09. Hardesty, who did not fumble on 282 carries from scrimmage in 2009, was a second-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns in 2010. He was selected one slot after Auburn's Ben Tate (Houston Texans), whom Gran coached in 2008.

• Gran's tenure as a special teams coach included oversight of Auburn kicker John Vaughn, who was the SEC Special Teams Player of the Year in 2006. With his hands-on approach in all facets of special teams play, Gran is widely regarded as one of the most meticulous in tutoring the game's critical "third phase."

• Beyond the playing field, Gran has established himself as one of the nation's top recruiters. He has spent the better part of two decades recruiting Miami and greater South Florida as his primary territory, where he first crossed paths with Jimbo Fisher. The fertile ground has remained his primary recruiting area with the Seminoles and he helped the Seminoles attract the nation's No. 1 recruiting class in 2011. He and fellow assistant coach Lawrence Dawsey were named two of ESPN.com's Top 25 Recruiters of the Year in 2011.

• Gran and his wife, Rosemary, are deeply involved in the community for a cause that has changed their lives and continues to impact others. The Sydney Gran Foundation is a charity designed to support children's hospitals and other families whose children are facing serious illness. Sydney, the third of the Gran's four daughters, was born with the rare disease called Holoprosnecephaly. She passed away just shy of her sixth birthday in 2005. Additional information is available at www.sydneygranfoundation.org.

• Gran's 25 seasons in the college ranks includes stops from coast-to-coast. It began at his alma mater Cal Lutheran, where he played four seasons as a wide receiver. Like fellow FSU staff members Mark Stoops and D.J. Eliot, Gran also served on the staff at the University of Miami.

Gran's Coaching Ledger

Year	School	Position	W-L	Postseason
1987	Cal Lutheran	WR	4-6
1988	Cal Lutheran	WR	2-8
1989	SE Missouri St	RB	0-0
1989	East Carolina	GA	5-5-1
1990	Miami (Fla.)	GA	10-2	Cotton
1991	Miami (Fla.)	GA	12-0	Orange
1992	Cincinnati	WR	3-8
1993	Cincinnati	WR	8-3
1994	Idaho State	WR	6-5
1995	Ole Miss	RB	6-5
1996	Ole Miss	RB	5-6
1997	Ole Miss	RB	8-4	Motor City
1998	Ole Miss	RB	6-5	Independence
1999	Auburn	RB/ST	5-6
2000	Auburn	RB/ST	9-4	Citrus
2001	Auburn	RB/ST	7-4	Peach
2002	Auburn	RB/ST	9-4	Capital One
2003	Auburn	RB/ST	8-5	Music City
2004	Auburn	RB/ST	13-0	Sugar
2005	Auburn	RB/ST	9-3	Capital One
2006	Auburn	RB/ST	11-2	Cotton
2007	Auburn	RB/ST	9-4	Chick-fil-A
2008	Auburn	RB/ST	5-7
2009	Tennessee	RB/ST	7-6	Chick-fil-A
2010	Florida State	RB/ST	10-4	Chick-fil-A
2011	Florida State	RB/ST	9-4	Champs Sports

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