Nicholas Siciliano - Football Coach - University of Minnesota Athletics

Nicholas Siciliano

Title:
Quality Control
Email:
nsicilia@umn.edu

Nick Siciliano joined the Minnesota football staff in April 2018 and is a quality control assistant. He has extensive collegiate football experience, but came to Minnesota after working in the private sector with both Cardinal Health and Franklin Computer Services in central Ohio since 2014.

Siciliano most recently worked in football when he was an offensive assistant for the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL from 2012-13 and played a role in the Bengals making the NFL playoffs in 2013. There he was responsible for the scouting and breaking down opponents and also participated in game strategy for upcoming contests.

Prior to his time in Cincinnati, Siciliano spent 2005-12 as a member of the Ohio State coaching staff. He was on the same staff with Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck in 2006, when Fleck served as a graduate assistant for the Buckeyes.

Siciliano served many roles at Ohio State including operations assistant, quality control and then coached the quarterbacks from 2008-12. At Ohio State, he was part of a staff that won Big Ten titles in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. He also helped lead the Buckeyes to bowl wins in 2006 (Fiesta Bowl), 2010 (Rose Bowl) and 2011 (Sugar Bowl) and berth in the BCS National Championship Game in 2007 and 2008.

He coached two Big Ten Freshman of the Year at Ohio State in Terrelle Pryor and Braxton Miller and coached Pryor when he has named MVP of the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl.

Siciliano spent the 2004-05 seasons at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C. There he coached receivers (2003) and quarterbacks (2004), while also leading the special teams. In 2003 the Aggies won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title and qualified for the NCAA Division I-AA national playoffs.

In 2002, he was the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Urbana University in Urbana, Ohio. In 2001, he served as the tight end coach at Youngstown State, his alma mater.

Siciliano spent two seasons as the assistant video coordinator at Oklahoma and was with the Sooners when they won 2000 national championship with a 13-2 victory against Florida State in the 2001 Orange Bowl.

The Youngstown, Ohio native is a 1999 graduate of Youngstown State University where he earned a degree in computer information systems. He was a student football coach for the Penguins and coached on the 1997 NCAA I-AA national championship team.

Siciliano and his wife, Analisa, have four children: Giovanni, Cole, Gabrielle and Zoe.