Ending a couple weeks of rumors, Ohio head football coach Frank Solich on Tuesday officially announced Tim Albin as offensive coordinator and Jimmy Burrows as defensive coordinator. The two served in the same capacity at North Dakota St. last season. It was also announced that Pete Germano would remain as recruiting coordinator.

?Tim and Jimmy are coaches that I have known for some time. Both have experience as coordinators and I had a chance to work with them directly at Nebraska," Solich said in a press release. "It is obvious to me that they are the kind of coaches you want as coordinators ? knowledgeable, thorough, conscientious and have the energy to do whatever it takes to get the job done.?

Tim Albin Bio - Albin spent the 2003 season as offensive coordinator and running backs coach at North Dakota State, helping the Bison to an 8-3 record and No. 25 national ranking in their first season at the Division I-AA level. NDSU finished the season with 378.5 yards of total offense, including 192.4 on the ground, and had four offensive players named first team All-Great West Football Conference.

Albin served four seasons with Solich at Nebraska, including 2003 when he was running backs coach and passing game coordinator. Before moving to Nebraska, Albin was the head coach at Northwestern Oklahoma State for three seasons, winning the NAIA national championship in 1999 with a 13-0 record. He was named NAIA Football Coach of the Year by Rawlings and the American Football Coach Magazine as the Rangers recorded their first undefeated season in history. Albin?s three squads posted a 25-8 record from 1997-99 including a 5-5 mark in 1997 and a 7-3 chart in 1998.

Jimmy Burrows Bio - Burrow spent two seasons as defensive coordinator for the Bison, where his defense allowed just 13.6 points and 285.0 yards per game this past season.

A 20-year coaching veteran at several different levels, Burrow served as a graduate assistant coach at Nebraska for two seasons (2001-02) before moving to North Dakota State. He was head football coach at Ames High School (Iowa) for two years (1999-2000) and assistant coach at that same high school for four years prior to that (1995-98). During that span, he also served as assistant head football coach of the Iowa Barnstormers of the Arena Football League.

Burrow began his coaching career in 1981 at Washington State, where he spent one year as tight ends coach before moving to the defensive backfield for the next five. He joined the Iowa State staff as secondary coach in 1987, spending eight years in Ames. For his last season (1994), Burrow was elevated to co-defensive coordinator.

Pete Germano Bio - Germano came to Athens as recruiting coordinator in 2001 after two seasons as head coach at Case Western Reserve. He spent the first two seasons working with the tight ends before moving to the defensive side as outside linebackers coach in 2003.