Chris Klieman announces 5 new additions to Kansas State Wildcats football staff
Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman has added five new members to his staff, and they are already hard at work for the Wildcats as spring practices are underway in Manhattan.
The new additions will all help K-State in off-the-field roles.
They are Riley Galpin (assistant director of on-campus recruiting), Nate Kaczor (special teams quality control), Drew Liddle (offense analyst), Lonnie Maddox (assistant strength and conditioning coach) and Sean Maguire (offense analyst).
Kaczor may inherit the most important role of the group, as he will be more or less in charge of how the Wildcats play on special teams. K-State hired him after a lengthy career coaching special teams in the NFL. The Wildcats don’t employ a special teams coordinator, so their quality control coach helps support the on-field assistants who team up to lead the unit on Saturdays.
He is also a native of Scott City, so this will be a homecoming of sorts for him.
Liddle is a former K-State football player who returns to Manhattan after working the previous two seasons at UTEP as a tight ends/fullbacks coach. He will now help the Wildcats on offense.
So will Maguire. He is a former quarterback at Florida State, who spent last season at Buffalo.
Galpin comes to K-State after previously working as director of on-campus recruiting at West Georgia, where she directed and supervised all planning of official and unofficial visits to campus.
Maddox will assist strength and conditioning coach Trumain Carroll in the weight room after previously working for Valdosta State.
These days, college football coaching staffs extend well beyond the head coach and his primary assistants. Analysts and quality control personnel can be important members of any team. The Wildcats will have five new ones on staff next season.
This story was originally published March 27, 2024 at 11:57 AM with the headline "Chris Klieman announces 5 new additions to Kansas State Wildcats football staff."