Chris Boden

Gary McGraw

The Ferris State foot­ball pro­gram has added two new coaches for the upcom­ing foot­ball season.

The Bulldogs have hired Chris Boden to serve as the team’s new offen­sive coor­di­na­tor and Gary McGraw, who will coach the defen­sive backs.
Boden spent the last five years as the head coach at Division II Northern State in Aberdeen, S.D. In his ini­tial sea­son, he led them to a 5–2 league record and a third place finish.

Boden served as offen­sive coor­di­na­tor at Division II Texas A&M-Commerce in 2004, in which the team was 11^th in the nation in pass­ing in the 2004 cam­paign. He spent eight years as an assis­tant coach at Valdosta State (Ga.) in which the Blazers made four NCAA-II Playoff appear­ances.
McGraw has spent his last six years at Quincy University (Ill.), two of which he served as defen­sive coor­di­na­tor. Before join­ing Quincy he was an assis­tant coach at Marist High School in Oregon in which helped the team to a 23–1 record and a state championship.

The two new coaches will be look­ing to make an impact quickly as they look to help turn around a Bulldog team that fin­ished 1–10 in 2009. Boden will really have his work cut out for him as he attempts to revive an offen­sive which aver­aged a league-worst 11 points per game last season.