Ball State University football coach Stan Parrish hired an assistant coach today to complete his staff for the 2009 season.
Jason Eck was hired as the Cardinals new offensive line coach and is the final member of the staff for Parrish, who became Ball State's head coach after Brady Hoke left for San Diego State University in December.
Eck spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons as the co-offensive coordinator, offensive line and tight ends coach at Winona State University, a Division II school in Minnesota. The Wariors won the 2007 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship and made the NCAA Division II Playoffs with a 10-2 record.
Prior to coaching at Winona State, Eck was the tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator for head coach Dennis Erickson at the University of Idaho in 2006. He was the offensive line coach at Idaho in 2004 and 2005.
In 2002 and 2003, Eck was an offensive graduate assistant - assisting the offensive line - at the University of Colorado.
Eck graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1999 and earned his master's degree from the university in 2001. He was an offensive graduate assistant coach at the school from 1999 through 2001.
The Cardinals new coach played offensive line for the Badgers from 1995 through 1998. At Wisconsin, he was the Athletic Board Scholar for football and a Big Ten All-Academic choice in 1998.
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