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Jim Reid

	Last College: Maine '73
	Position: Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Line
	Experience: First Season

Jim Reid brings more than 30 years of collegiate coaching experience to Bucknell, including 15 as a head coach at Massachusetts and Richmond.

Reid will serve as the Bison's special teams coordinator and defensive line coach, where he will tutor All-America defensive end Sean Conover.

Reid, who served as defensive line coach at Syracuse last year, spent nine seasons as head coach at Richmond, leading the Spiders to 48 victories over that span (48-53-1). He ranks third on the school's all-time wins list as his teams posted three of the top 12 victory totals in program history. He guided Richmond to Atlantic 10 championships and I-AA playoff berths in 1998 and 2000, earning him league coach of the year honors both times. In 2000, the Spiders won a school-record 10 games, including a victory over Youngstown State in the first round of the I-AA playoffs.

A 1973 graduate of the University of Maine, where he was a three-year football starter, Reid began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at UMass in 1973 under coach Dick MacPherson. Reid was promoted to defensive coordinator in 1978, a position he held until being named head coach in 1986. He then logged a 36-29-2 record in six seasons as head coach of the Minutemen and was the Yankee Conference Coach of the Year in 1988 and 1990. He led UMass to three conference titles.

Reid moved on to Richmond as defensive coordinator in 1992, then served in the same role at Boston College in 1994 before moving back to Richmond as head coach.