Eastern Michigan Athletics
Football
Oct 11 (Sat)
TBA
- Title:
- Tight Ends/Tackles
Josh Buis, a former assistant football coach at Grand Valley State University, is starting his third year and his first as the running backs coach at Eastern Michigan University.
The 29-year-old Buis (8-7-78) spent the previous two years as the tight ends and offensive tackles coach.
Last season, he mentored a tight ends corps that caught three touchdown passes while helping protect the quarterbacks. As a team, Eagles allowed just 14 sacks in 2007. That total ranks as the second fewest amount allowed in the Mid-American Conference and the 19th fewest in the nation.
Buis was part of the Grand Valley staff that directed the team to a perfect 13-0 record on the way to an NCAA Division II National Championship in 2005 and a 10-3 record and a regional title in 2004. He also served as a graduate assistant football coach at Grand Valley in 2001.
Buis is a 2000 graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., where he was an All-Conference and All-Conference Academic selection as a football player. He was selected as the outstanding offensive/defensive lineman on the team as a senior, and was a two-year starter. He served as team captain in 2000. He went on to earn his master’s degree at Northwestern University in 2003 and spent the 2002-03 year as a graduate assistant football coach with the Wildcats.
A native of Greencastle, Ind., Buis graduated from South Putnam High School in 1997 after earning All-State and All-Conference honors as a football player.
Buis and his wife, Grace Ann, have a son, Jackson.
