SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Wofford College football head coach Josh Conklin has announced several changes and additions to the staff for the 2019 season.
 
Bryan Whitehead has been promoted to assistant defensive backs coach after spending last season as the video coordinator and defensive quality control. Paul Holmes joins the staff as offensive quality control and will also oversee video. Chandler Burks and Rob O'Connell will serve as defensive quality control.
 
Bryan Whitehead is in his second season with the Terriers and first season as assistant defensive backs coach. He will work primarily with the safeties/nickels along with Rob Greene.
 
In 2018 he served as defensive quality control coach and video coordinator for the Terriers. He assisted defensive coordinator Sam Siefkes and staff in scouting upcoming opponents, along with video and statistical analysis. For the previous two seasons he was on the coaching staff at Wisconsin-Platteville. In 2017 he was the defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator after serving as the safeties coach in 2016. The Pioneers were 15-3 overall in his two seasons, with the team reaching the NCAA Division III Playoffs in 2016.
 
Whitehead was a three-year letterwinner for the Pioneers as a wide receiver and defensive back from 2012-14, helping the team to the first ever playoff appearance in 2013. He played professionally for one season for the Fursty Razorbacks in Germany before beginning his coaching career at Glenbard South High School in the fall of 2015.
 
A native of Elgin, Illinois, he graduated from Larkin High School. He received his bachelor's degree in Health and Human Performance from UW-Platteville in 2014.
 
Chandler Burks recently completed a stellar career as a quarterback at Kennesaw State. Burks finished his final season with 1,043 passing yards and 10 touchdowns. The Walter Payton Award finalist ran for 905 yards and a single-season FCS quarterback record of 29 rushing touchdowns.
 
For his career, Burks ran for 3,431 yards and 56 touchdowns and became the first quarterback in Big South Conference history to run and throw for 1,000 yards in the same season. The 56 touchdowns are an all-time Big South record for any position, and Burks finished as the conference's all-time leader in scoring. He also helped Kennesaw State to a 37-12 record through four seasons.
 
A sports management major from Dallas, Georgia, he became the first player in league history to be voted both the Big South's Offensive Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year in the same season.
 
Paul Holmes joins the staff as offensive quality control after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Independence Community College in Kansas. He coached the wide receivers and defensive backs and worked as video coordinator. In 2017, the team was 9-2 overall and featured on the Netflix series "Last Chance U."
 
Prior to working in the college ranks, he coached for two seasons at Irmo High School. As the wide receivers and defensive backs coach he developed practice plans and assisted in film breakdown and review.
 
A 2014 graduate of Coastal Carolina with a degree in sport and fitness administration/management, he was a student intern for the football team for three seasons.
 
Rob O'Connell will work with the defense in quality control. A 2013 graduate of the University of South Carolina, he was an assistant football coach at Ridge View High School for five seasons.
 
He was the head coach at Richard Winn Academy in Winnsboro in 2016, posting an 8-4 record and reached the semifinals of the SCISA playoffs. Prior to joining the staff at Wofford he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Irmo High School.