The Albany Great Danes (CAA) have named associate head coach Jared Ambrose interim head coach for the 2025 season. Ambrose replaces former head coach Greg Gattuso, who left to join the Penn State staff. Gattuso spent 11 seasons in charge of the Great Danes.
Ambrose has been with Albany since the 2022 season when he was named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. In addition to those two rules, he was given the associate head coaching duties starting with the 2023 season.
Ambrose started his coaching career in 2003 as a student assistant with the NCAA Division II’s Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He was an offensive graduate assistant with Delaware for two years in 2007 and 2008 followed by a long tenure at Towson. He started as the tight ends coach with the Tigers in 2009 and 2010 before he became the quarterbacks coach for the 2011 season. In 2012, he took over the offensive coordinator duties, a position he held for a total of seven seasons through 2018. Ambrose returned to Delaware as the offensive coordinator for three seasons from 2019 through 2021.
Ambrose was in his second season as OC when Albany had its best season as an FCS member in 2023. The Great Danes won a share of the CAA title en route to reaching the FCS semifinals for the first time. Albany lost the semifinal matchup to the eventual national champions South Dakota State.
Ambrose will make his Albany head coaching debut on Saturday, August 30 at Iowa (Big Ten). Albany has a second straight road game at Delaware State (MEAC) the following week on Saturday, September 6, before ending the non-conference schedule at home against Cornell (Ivy League) in Ambrose’s first game on Bob Ford Field.
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