ASSISTANT COACHES ormer FSU stand- two touchdowns in five games and also had 5.5 honorable mention All-America pick by Fout and current tackles as Grand Rapids reached the AFL Playoff D2Football.com, Bell led the Bulldogs with 14.5 arena football player Semifinals. tackles for minus 69 yards which included a Whitney Bell returns to Bell previously spent two seasons (2005-06) team-best 7.5 pass sacks for a loss of 54 yards in Ferris State and will with the arenafootball2’s Green Bay Blizzard, his final campaign. He compiled a team fourth- coach the defensive totalling 13.5 tackles, 3.5 sacks and one fumble place 60 total stops (35 solos) as an 11-game line this season. recovery in 15 games. He attended training starter in 2004. Bell racked up 225 career total A Sault Ste. Marie camp with the Canadian Football League’s British tackles (133 solos) in 42 appearances, which con- native, Bell wrapped up Columbia Lions in 2007 and was a member of the sisted of 41.5 tackles for minus 180 yards. The his FSU career in 2004. club’s practice squad in 2006. lineman also notched 16.0 sacks for 99 yards to In 2008, Bell played Bell was twice (2003-04) recognized as a first- rank 14th among Ferris State’s all-time sack lead- fullback for the Arena team All-GLIAC performer and was named to the ers. HITNEY ELL Football League’s Football Gazette’s All-Northwest Region Second Bell was an all-state pick in football as a W B Grand Rapids Rampage Team for the second straight year as a senior at senior at Sault Area (Mich.) High School, and a DEFENSIVE LINE after being signed off Ferris. In 2003, Bell achieved Football Gazette All- two-time all-Big North Conference selection. He (Ferris State, 2005) the Chicago Rush prac- America Second-Team kudos. A 2004 Don Hansen’s also participated in hockey and basketball in tice squad. He ran for Football Gazette All-America Third Team and 2004 high school. hris Reese returns tutor All-GLIAC Second Team cornerback Terrell Cfor his third year Heggins after working with a first-team all-league with the Bulldog staff defensive back in Jim Skodak during the 2006 and was recently pro- campaign. moted to defensive Prior to Ferris State, Reese played collegiate backs coach for the football under head coach Jeff Zenisek at Rocky 2008 campaign. Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) member Reese spent the past Western State from 1999 to 2004 in Grand two seasons (2006 & Junction, Colo. 2007) as a defensive In 2003, Reese placed third among the team’s assistant coach at Ferris leading tacklers with 64 stops, including 39 solo and worked primarily hits as a defensive back. He also had a pair of PHIL FORTIER BOB MAYNARD CHRIS REESE with the safeties while interceptions and five pass breakups as the Volunteer Volunteer DEFENSIVE BACKS/ also assuming various Mountaineers posted a 4-4 mark in RMAC play. Assistant Coach Assistant Coach VIDEO COORDINATOR scouting and video- Reese saw action in 11 games as a junior and (Western State, related duties. played in eight contests his final season. 2005) In 2007, he helped Reese graduated from Western State in 2005. Allen Curtiss starts guided the Bluffton defense to a No. 2 ranking in his first season at Ferris the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference in State in 2008 and will both pass defense and total defense. serve as the special In 2000, Curtiss led the Bluffton defensive teams coordinator & unit to three shutout victories on their way to an running backs coach. HCAC co-championship. It marked just the fifth Curtiss previously time in Bluffton history that the defense had spent the last 20 years totaled three shutouts in the same season. MIKE WISSINK MAX HUNTOON at Bluffton (Ohio) After coaching the defensive line from 1988 Team Building Volunteer University where he through 1999, Curtiss took over the linebacking Coordinator/Chaplain Assistant Coach was the linebackers corps in the 2000 season and produced a first- ALLEN CURTISS coach and recruiter for team All-HCAC linebacker the last eight seasons the Beavers. Curtiss and his wife, Phyllis, have both a son, SPECIAL TEAMS/RB (Western Michigan, For four out of the Eric, and daughter, Carrie. 1982) last eight years, he He graduated from Western Michigan in 1982. ntering his 16th America and All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Eyear as Ferris Athletic Conference kicker-punter Doc Proctor. State’s placekicking Williams also holds the distinction of helping for- and punting coach is mer FSU standout kicker Jason Lipke achieve All- Rick Williams, who America and all-conference first-team status in assumed his current 1995. Williams also coached first-team all-league R ELISSA duties in August 1992. punter Eric Stevens during the 1995 season. D . M In his tenure, A Class A-I golf pro, Williams has also assisted DENIEL Williams has tutored the program with various equipment-related Team Physician two All-Americans duties. The Alma, Mich., native graduated from along with several all- Greenville (Mich.) High School where he served conference performers. as team captain in both football and basketball RICK WILLIAMS Most recently, he while achieving Most Valuable Player accolades played an instrumental in track and field. KICKERS/PUNTERS role in orchestrating the Rick and his wife, Jan, have two children – a (Michigan St., 1977) development of two- son (Rick) and a daughter (Shawn), who’s married time (1998-99) All- to former FSU assistant coach Ken Conlin. 2008 FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL 9.