After a 16-year absence from his home state, Chris Boden is hav­ing a home­com­ing as he has joined the Bulldog foot­ball staff.

After grad­u­at­ing from Saginaw Valley State in 1990, Boden began his coach­ing career as a grad­u­ate assis­tant with Central Michigan. In 1994, after he received his mas­ters degree, he left the con­fines of the Great-Lake state in order to pur­sue his coach­ing career. In those 16 years, Boden has held coach­ing posi­tions in Ohio, Georgia, Texas, and South Dakota, where he was the head coach of Northern State for five years.

“I’m excited to coach here, it’s always good to be home and be able to raise my chil­dren where I grew up,” said Boden.

Boden has taken over the team’s offen­sive coor­di­na­tor posi­tion as he attempts to turn around an offense which strug­gled in 2009. After being a head coach for five years, Boden is relieved to leave all the stresses of head– coach­ing behind and being able to focus solely on being the best offen­sive coor­di­na­tor he can be. He will need all of that focus and more as he attempts to reju­ve­nate an offense that aver­aged 11 points per game in 2009. Boden hopes to use a fast-paced and aggres­sive offense to keep defenses unbal­anced as they attack the oppos­ing team’s weaknesses.

“I am going to put play­ers in posi­tion to have suc­cess and have fun,” said Boden.

Boden hopes to get the Bulldog offense turned around and find a place where he and his fam­ily can live and grow with­out mov­ing every sev­eral years.

“I’m excited to be here at this great school, it is a good oppor­tu­nity for me at a good time in my life,” said Boden. n