Ryan McInerney

Biography

Ryan McInerney is in his 11th season as a quality control assistant for special teams and his first on staff for Curt Cignetti. In 10 seasons with the program (2014-present), McInerney has worked with a pair of Big Ten Bakken-Anderson Kicker of the Year award winners, helped Jaylin Lucas earn Big Ten Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year and seen nine pupils earn All-Big Ten on special teams. Lucas was a first-team All-America selection and Freshman All-America pick in 2022 after he returned a nation-best two kickoffs for touchdowns. Long snapper Sean Wracher was a two-time semifinalist for the Patrick Mannelly in 2022 and 2023. He spent five seasons at TCU (2010-13) prior to arriving in Bloomington with three as a defensive graduate assistant after one as a video graduate assistant. The 2011 Horned Frogs won the Mountain West and beat Louisiana Tech in the Poinsettia Bowl, before the program transitioned to the Big 12. McInerney made stops as a defensive graduate assistant at the University of Louisiana-Monroe (2009) and served as the tight ends coach and GA at Central Connecticut State. He began his coaching career as a varsity defensive and offensive line coach at Southeast High School (2008) in Cherokee, Kansas. A four-year letterwinner at Pittsburgh State University, McInerney was the starting center in all seven of the Gorillas’ NCAA Division II Playoff games and helped the program to a national runner-up finish in 2004.