Frank Gansz Jr. Joins Tiger-cats As Special Teams Coordinator

June Jones, Head Coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, announced Monday that Frank Gansz Jr. has been added to the team’s coaching staff as special teams coordinator. Gansz Jr. was a guest coach at Hamilton’s training camp the past three weeks.
Gansz Jr. brings significant coaching experience to the Tiger-Cats, including nine years as a special teams coordinator in the National Football League with the Oakland Raiders (1998-99), Kansas City Chiefs (2001-05) and Baltimore Ravens (2006-07). He has also coached special teams at numerous NCAA schools, most recently at UCLA (2008-10) and under Jones at Southern Methodist University (2011-12).
During his five-year stint with Kansas City, Gansz Jr.’s special teams units set numerous records and helped the Chiefs tie a franchise record with 13 wins in 2003. Under Gansz Jr.’s tutelage, Dante Hall was named to the Pro Bowl in both 2002 and 2003 as a kick returner, led the NFL in most kick returns for touchdowns (10 – six on kickoffs and four on punts) and became the first player in NFL history to return a kickoff for a touchdown in four consecutive games. Linebacker Gary Stills became the Chiefs’ all-time leader in special teams tackles (148), and later re-united with Gansz Jr. in Baltimore where he would lead the NFL in special teams tackles (44) in 2006, posting the second-highest single-season total in NFL history.
In 2003, Kansas City led the league in both punt return average (16.4) and kick return average (25.4), marking the only team to date to accomplish this feat in the NFL since 1995. Gansz-led units also excelled in blocking punts and kicks, recording four blocked punts from 2001 to 2002 and three blocked field goals from 2002 to 2003.
Gansz Jr. is the son of the late legendary football coach Frank Gansz Sr. and is the founder of Gansz Sports LLC, a sports consulting business.
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