Gillum arrived in Madison as Wisconsin Football Chief of Staff after three seasons at Cincinnati, holding the same role. Gillum joins the Badgers to oversee the day-to-day operations of the coaching staff and will manage the football budget. Gillum will serve as a liaison between the football program and the rest of the athletic department.
A veteran of almost 40 years as a coach and administrator at the high school and collegiate level, Gillum worked with Columbus City Schools prior to his stop with the Bearcats.
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Gillum spent time on the Ohio State football staff with Fickell, serving as the director of high school relations from 2012-2015 and the director of football operations for player personnel from 2009-2012. Gillum joined the Buckeyes in 2005 as an assistant recruiting coordinator.
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Prior to Ohio State, Gillum coached for nine years as an assistant at Akron after spending spending 12 years coaching at the high school level, including the first nine as an assistant to Lee Owens at Galion, Lancaster and Massillon Washington high schools.
From 1992-94 Gillum was the head coach at Lyndhurst Brush High School near Cleveland. He then rejoined Owens at Akron in 1995 and spent the next nine seasons there as recruiting coordinator and wide receivers coach, mentoring Akron’s all-time leading receiver, Matt Cherry.
A native of Plymouth, Ohio, Gillum earned a degree in business education from Ohio State in 1983. He went on to secure a master’s degree in educational administration from Dayton in 1990.
Gillum and his wife Jody have two sons, Tyler and Tanner, and a daughter, Myriah.Â
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