18 Facts About Carl Pelini

Carl Anthony Pelini was born on July 15,1965 and is an American football coach.

Carl Pelini served as defensive coordinator at Youngstown State University for the 2019 season.

Carl Pelini is the older brother of Bo Pelini, the former defensive coordinator at LSU and former head coach at Youngstown State.

Carl Pelini was born in Youngstown, Ohio, a former center of steel production with a strong athletic tradition, and graduated from Youngstown Cardinal Mooney High School.

Carl Pelini had a relatively short playing career, putting in just two seasons at Columbia University in New York City in 1983 and 1984 as a middle linebacker before returning home to finish his degree.

Carl Pelini then spent two years out of coaching while finishing his third degree, a master's in education, from Ohio State University in 1993, and then promptly returned to the coaching ranks as the defensive coordinator for Blue Valley High School in Overland Park, Kansas for the 1993 and 1994 seasons.

In 1995, Carl Pelini was appointed as a head coach for the first time, while assuming the role of athletic director, at Winnetonka High School in Kansas City, Missouri.

In 2000, Carl Pelini was tapped to revitalize a suffering high school program and welcomed the opportunity to return to his roots for a short time when he was hired as Head Coach at Austintown-Fitch High School in Austintown, Ohio, a suburb of his hometown of Youngstown.

Again, Carl Pelini started the resurrection of an unsuccessful program that had gone without a winning season in the previous eight years.

Carl Pelini moved back into the college ranks, again as a graduate assistant, when hired by Frank Solich at Nebraska, where he worked side by side with younger brother Bo Carl Pelini who had just been hired by Solich as Defensive Coordinator.

Bo Carl Pelini interviewed for the Nebraska head coach position, but Pederson instead decided after a 41-day search to hire Bill Callahan, the recently-fired coach of the Oakland Raiders.

Carl Pelini returned to Nebraska, this time in the role of Defensive Coordinator and Defensive Line Coach.

Carl Pelini initially denied the accusations, but after video evidence from Jones' camera and another camera in the stands showed him lunging towards Jones and grabbing the camera unprovoked, he apologized and offered to pay to fix any damage done to the camera.

On December 1,2011, Carl Pelini became the head football coach at Florida Atlantic University.

Carl Pelini resigned on October 30,2013 after FAU athletic director Pat Chun confronted Pelini and defensive coordinator Pete Rekstis with reports of illegal drug use.

Later, Carl Pelini filed a Defamation of Character lawsuit against Florida Atlantic University claiming that Florida Atlantic had him under duress and made false statements against him.

On December 18,2017, sources from the Toledo Blade confirmed that Carl Pelini was to be named the defensive coordinator at Bowling Green State University.

On October 14,2018, Carl Pelini was named interim head coach of Bowling Green after the school fired Mike Jinks.