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For New MSU Rush Ends' Coach Chad Wilt, Class in Now in Session

Michigan State co-special teams coordinator/rush ends coach Chad Wilt has held a lot of titles over his more than 20-year coaching career.  In the early 2000s, Wilt was the defensive line coach/special teams coordinator during his tenures at Central Connecticut State, Liberty and Virginia. In the 2010s, Wilt was the defensive line coach at Richmond, Ball State, Maryland, Army, Cincinnati, and Minnesota. Most recently, Wilt was the co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach at Indiana. Through all of these stops and titles, however, Coach Wilt views that his job has always been fundamentally the same. At his core, Wilt views himself as an educator of young men. "Coaches are just teachers nowadays," Wilt said to members of the media this week. "We're just looking for unique ways to teach...  Our meeting rooms, they are all just classrooms. Let's teach. Let's be interactive. Let's show things." As Wilt went into more detail about this teaching philosoph