Former UNC Reserve QB John Dunn Named UConn Offensive Coordinator

Posted Jan 12, 2018
John Dunn, who has experience coaching in the NFL and previously worked under Randy Edsall during the UConn football coach’s tenure at Maryland, has been named the Huskies’ offensive coordinator. Dunn was a walk-on quarterback at UNC from 2001-03 and a student/graduate assistant there until 2007. He was then an assistant under Les Miles at LSU. (Hartford Courant)

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