The Bears are almost done restocking their coaching staff after an offseason of heavy turnover.
Most of the changes have been on defense, but Matt Nagy lost running backs coach Charles London and passing game coordinator Dave Ragone. Ragone is the new offensive coordinator for the Falcons, and London is their quarterbacks coach.
Oregon State running backs coach Michael Pitre will replace London, ESPN reported Wednesday. He coached current Bears running back Artavis Pierce.
It is a breakthrough opportunity for Pitre, who has been with Oregon State the last three seasons and held the same position at Montana State from 2014 through ’17.
Nagy doesn’t necessarily need to replace Ragone. When the Bears hired John DeFilippo as their quarterbacks coach a year ago, Nagy promoted Ragone to a position that hadn’t existed on the staff.
That’s the only change offensively going into next season. Defensively, however, the Bears will have at least four new position coaches under recently promoted coordinator Sean Desai.
