BENTLEY UNIVERSITY THE COACHING STAFF
Thom Boerman
Scott Boyle
Head Football Coach 2nd Season
Defensive Coordinator 2nd season
After more than two decades as an assistant coach for the Falcons, Thom Boerman was named the head football coach at Bentley University on December 8, 2008. He succeeded Peter Yetten, who retired after the 2008 season following 30 years at the helm. Success came in his first season at the helm with Bentley posting an 8-2 record and sharing the Northeast-10 Conference championship in 2009. Boerman was named the conference’s Coach of the Year and was one of the top vote-getters among Division II coaches in the 2009 Liberty Mutual Division II Coach of the Year balloting. Boerman, 57, had been an assistant coach with the Falcons since 1986 and had been the university’s Director of Football Operations for ten years before his promotion. He spent most of his tenure as an assistant coach working with the defensive backs before being promoted to defensive coordinator for the 2008 season. “Thom has done a very good job as the football operations director,” said Bentley athletics director Bob DeFelice upon Boerman’s appointment. “This makes for a smooth transition and maintains the stability of the program.” Bentley enjoyed a great deal of success during Boerman’s time as an assistant, compiling an overall record of 173-61-1, including 15460-1 in 21 seasons at the varsity level. In those 21 seasons, he helped coach a defense that recorded 30 shutouts and a pass defense that has averaged 19.8 interceptions a year from 2001-08. “I’m honored to be the head coach at Bentley,” said Boerman. It’s a great opportunity and I want to make sure I build on the groundwork that Peter laid over the last 30 years. We have great kids and an experienced coaching staff, Bentley is an outstanding university, and it was an easy decision to accept the position.” Before joining the Bentley coaching staff, Boerman served as an assistant coach on the high school level for six years, including a stint as offensive coordinator at Millbury High School. The U.S. Navy veteran was also a former college football player at Ferris State College in Michigan. Prior to his appointment as Director of Football Operations in 1998, Boerman was the Manager of Network Services in Bentley’s Computer and Network Services Department. Boerman resides in Maynard with his wife, Anne, and their two children, Zachary (13) and Rachel (7). He also has a grown daughter, Aubree.
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Back for his second year as the Defensive Coordinator is former Lowell High School head coach Scott Boyle. His first Falcon team was third in Division II in pass efficiency defense and ninth in fewest points allowed. A 1994 graduate of UMass-Lowell, Boyle came to Bentley following a year as the wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator at Saint Anslem College (2008). During his decade as head coach at Lowell, Boyle amassed a record of 68-37-2 and twice led the Red Raiders to the Merrimack Valley Conference championship (2001, 2006). He was the Lowell Sun Coach of the Year in both 1998 and 2006, and the MVC Coach of the Year in 2006. In addition, Boyle was the boys basketball coach at Lowell from 2003-09, and has two league titles (2007, 2008) to his credit. The Lowell Sun recognized him as its Coach of the Year in both 2007 and 2009, and he’s twice been the MVC Coach of the Year. He was also the Massachusetts Basketball Coaches Association Division I North Coach of the Year in 2007. Boyle played outside linebacker at UMass-Lowell from 198992, and was a starter for three-plus seasons. His playing career included a New England Football Conference championship in 1991 and a 27-3 record during his first three seasons.
Darin Colucci
Offensive Coordinator 5th season The 2010 season will be the fifth year for Darin Colucci on the Bentley coaching staff and his third as the Falcons’ offensive coordinator He previously coached the quarterbacks (2007) and the defensive secondary (2006) during his first two seasons with the Falcons. Colucci, a managing partner with the law firm of Colucci, Colucci, Marcus and Flavin, was the offensive coordinator at King Philip High School in 2005 after spending three years on Steve Nelson’s staff at Curry College as the QB coach and assistant offensive coordinator. A native of Pompton Lakes, N.J. where he was a high school AllAmerican quarterback, Colucci went on to a four-year career at Bucknell. After receiving his B.A. in Political Science in 1987, he went on to the Suffolk University Law School, graduating cum laude in 1993.
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