The 2011 season marked Vic Adamle's final year as a UW-Stout assistant coach. Adamle was with the Blue Devils for two years, his final season as the offensive coordinator.

Adamle, who had 23 years experience as an assistant coach at three NCAA Division I schools before coming to Stout in 2010, begins his third year with the Blue Devils as the assistant head coach and his second as the team's offensive coordinator. Adamle will also work specifically with the running backs.

Adamle coached 10 seasons at the University of Minnesota (1997-2006), working with future NFL running backs Laurence Maroney, Thomas Tapeh and Marion Barber. During the eight seasons Adamle worked with the Gophers’ running backs, the backfield accounted for more than 2300 rushing yards and, in 2003 and 2004, the Gophers cleared 3000 rushing yards. During Adamle’s tenure at Minnesota, the Gophers advanced to seven bowl games.

Working with running backs and wide receivers, Adamle was at the University of Kansas from 1988-96 and at Kent State from 1985-87. At Kansas and Kent State, Adamle coached the programs’ all-time leading rushers. Adamle was also a graduate assistant at Kent State in 1984.

Following the 2006 season, Adamle worked three seasons (2007-09) as the offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and running backs coach at Minnesota high school football powerhouse Stillwater. The Ponies in 2009 broke several school offensive records. Adamle has also established a successful football summer camp in the Stillwater area, “Coach Vic’s Football Advanced Skills Camp.”

A 1983 graduate of Eastern Michigan, Adamle was a two-year starter and three-year letterwinner (‘80, ‘81, ‘82) as a fullback during his collegiate career for the Eagles. He is the brother of former Northwestern star and television commentator Mike Adamle. Their father, Tony, was a six-time All-Pro selection as a linebacker for the NFL’s Cleveland Browns after finishing his collegiate career at Ohio State.

Adamle and his wife, Mary, have a daughter, Amy, and two sons, Tony and Joey. The family resides in Woodbury, Minn. Adamle will also be an instructor in the UW-Stout Physical Education Department.

Adamle had been an assistant coach at Stillwater High School in Stillwater, Minn., the last three seasons (2007, 08, 09) where he was the offensive coordinator and works specifically with the running backs and quarterbacks. Previous to that, Adamle was an assistant coach under Glen Mason, working with the running backs, wide receivers and special teams at all three NCAA Division I stops. Adamle was at the Unversity of Minnesota from 1997-2006, the University of Kansas from 1988-96 and at Kent State (1985-87). Adamle was also a graduate assistant at Kent State in 1984. Adamle has a total of 23 years coaching the Division I level.

Adamle coached 10 seasons at the University of Minnesota and worked eight seasons as the Gophers’ running backs coach after handling the wide receivers his first two seasons. He has helped develop many players who have gone on to play in the NFL, including Laurence Maroney, Thomas Tapeh and Marion Barber.

Adamle has presided over the Gophers’ running tradition and each season his group has reached an even higher plateau. Since he took over as running backs coach in 1999, Adamle’s unit has totaled at least 2,300 yards each season and has reached unchartered territory the past two seasons, surpassing 3,000 yards in 2003 and 2004.

Adamle has worked with Marion Barber III and Laurence Maroney at the University of Minnesota, the the most dynamic running back duo in NCAA history. Maroney rushed for 1,348 yards with 12 touchdowns, while Barber tallied 1,269 yards with 11 scores. With those rushing totals, Barber and Maroney became the first duo in NCAA history to each rush for 1,000 yards in consecutive seasons. The Gophers also led the Big Ten in rushing (256.8 ypg) and finished fifth in the nation.

In 2003, the Minnesota ground game was electrifying, averaging 289.2 yards per game on the ground, the fourth-highest total in Big Ten history and the third- best average in the nation. The Gophers also rushed for at least 200 yards in 11 of 13 games, which broke the previous record of six games, and tallied 421 yards rushing against Michigan, the most rushing yards ever allowed by the Wolverines. The Gophers led the NCAA in rushing touchdowns with 46, which represents the third-highest total in Big Ten history. Barber and Maroney each ran for at least 1,000 yards in 2003. Barber was named an All-American by the College Football News and was a first-team All-Big Ten performer. Maroney led all freshman running backs in yardage and was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year by Big Ten coaches and media, The Sporting News, College Football News and ESPN.com.

The 2002 season was also a banner year for Adamle as the Gophers’ rushing game established several records and was a dominant force in the Big Ten despite losing Barber early in the season to injury. Minnesota finished third in the conference and was among the top-20 rushing offenses in the nation, averaging 209.8 yards per game. The Gophers joined West Virginia as the only two teams in the country to have two running backs (Terry Jackson II, Thomas Tapeh) reach 900 yards rushing in 2002. Minnesota also joined Iowa as the only two teams in the Big Ten to have two backs with at least four 100-yard rushing games. As a team, the Gophers cleared 400 yards rushing once, 300 yards rushing three times and 200 yards on the ground on seven occasions in 2002.

Adamle also helped contribute to the emergence of Jackson in 2002. Jackson exploded onto the scene with 1,317 yards rushing, the fifth-highest single-season total in school history. He also recorded back-to-back 200-yard rushing performances against Northwestern (239 yards) and Michigan State (238 yards), which were the fifth and sixth-best rushing marks in Gopher history.

In 2001, Adamle coached Barber to Freshman All-America honors after he totaled 742 yards with seven touchdowns. In 2000 and 2001, he coached Tellis Redmon to back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons on the ground, making him the first Gopher since Chris Darkins to accomplish the feat. In 2000, Redmon ran for 1,368 yards and All-Big Ten honors. Redmon’s 246-yard rushing performance in the Micronpc.com Bowl set a new bowl record and is one of the top individual performances in school history.

Adamle made an immediate impact in 1999 as the Gophers set the school record for rushing yards in a season (2,726) in his first year with that unit. Adamle helped guide Thomas Hamner to first-team All-Big Ten honors in 1999 as Hamner rushed for 1,426 yards. That was also the second-highest single-season rushing mark in school history.

In 1998, Adamle coached honorable mention All-Big Ten wide receiver Luke Leverson and Ron Johnson, who set a pair of freshman single-season school records en route to being honored on The Sporting News Freshman All-America Second Team. In 1997, Adamle worked with Tutu Atwell, who broke virtually all of the school’s career receiving records.

Before his arrival at Minnesota, Adamle had been the wide receivers coach at Kansas in 1995-96 after serving as the school’s running backs coach from 1988 -94. At Kent State, he was the running backs coach in 1986-87 and the wide receivers coach in 1985, after having worked as a graduate assistant coach in 1984.

Adamle has coached the all-time leading rushers at two different schools — June Henley at Kansas and Eric Wilkerson at Kent State. In addition, Kansas running back Tony Sands, who ranked second on the school’s career rushing list behind Henley, broke the all-time NCAA single-game rushing record with 396 yards against Missouri in 1991.

A 1983 graduate of Eastern Michigan, Adamle was a two-year starter and three-year letterwinner (‘80, ‘81, ‘82) as a fullback during his collegiate career for the Eagles. He is the brother of former Northwestern star and television commentator Mike Adamle. Their father, Tony, was a six-time All-Pro selection as a linebacker for the NFL’s Cleveland Browns after finishing his collegiate career at Ohio State.

Adamle and his wife, Mary, have a daughter, Amy, and two sons, Tony and Joey. The family resides in Woodbury, Minn.