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Offensive Coaching Staff

Morris Watts
Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks

Morris Watts has made a significant impact on Central Michigan's offense in his three seasons as the Chippewas' passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach and was recently named the offensive coordinator.

The 2013 season saw Watts tutor a trio of first-time starters including redshirt freshman Cooper Rush, who started the final 10 games of the season. Rush threw for 2,349 yards and 15 touchdowns, completing 177-of-312 passes. He ranked fifth in the MAC with 213.5 passing yards per game.

In 2012, Ryan Radcliff continued to flourish under Watts' guidance, capping off his time as a Chippewa with a standout senior season. He posted the best touchdown-to-interception ratio of his career (23-9) and threw for 3,000-plus yards (3,158) for the third consecutive year. In his final game in the maroon and gold, Radcliff earned Little Caesars Pizza Bowl MVP honors after passing for 253 yards and three touchdowns in the 24-21 win over Western Kentucky.

In 2011, Radcliff posted one of the top passing seasons in school history under Watts' tutelage. Radcliff completed 257 passes for 3,286 yards and 25 touchdowns in 2011; each of those totals ranks fourth in school history. Radcliff posted five 300-yard games in 2011, including a career-best 436-yard performance (third most yards in a game in school history) on 30-of-45 passing at Ball State on Oct. 22.

In eight Mid-American Conference games, Radcliff threw for a league-high 2,491 yards (311.4 ypg) and tied for the MAC lead with 19 touchdown passes. He threw two or more touchdown passes in seven of the season's final eight games.

Watts is a 44-year veteran of collegiate and professional coaching who has coached in 14 bowl games. He was the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator at Michigan State during current CMU head coach Dan Enos' playing career (1987-90).

The 2014 season will be Watts' 51st overall in coaching. He has 41 years of experience at the college level, three at the professional level and six at the high school level. Watts has the most college and pro experience of any current NCAA Bowl Subdivision coach.

Watts came to CMU from Miami, where as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach he helped lead the RedHawks to the Mid-American Conference championship and a victory in the GoDaddy.com Bowl in 2010.

During his career, Watts has worked directly with several quarterbacks who have played professionally, including Indiana's Tim Clifford; Michigan State's Jim Miller, Tony Banks and Jeff Smoker; Cliff Stoudt of the USFL's Birmingham Stallions; and Vinny Testeverde of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Prior to joining the Miami staff in 2009, Watts had most recently coached at the collegiate level at Mississippi State in 2003, serving as the Bulldogs' offensive coordinator.

He spent three different terms as the offensive coordinator at Michigan State, including the duration of Enos' playing career. During Enos' two seasons (1989-90) as the starting quarterback, the pair helped lead the Spartans to two bowl victories and a share of the 1990 Big Ten championship.

Watts was the offensive coordinator at Michigan State from 1986-90, 1992-94 and 1999-2002. He also was the interim head coach for the final three games of the 2002 season. In 2001, Watts was nominated for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation's top assistant coach.

Watts spent the 1995-98 seasons at LSU, helping lead the Tigers to a total of 31 wins, including three consecutive bowl victories. The 1995 and 1997 teams won the Independence Bowl, while the 1996 squad capped a 10-win season with a victory in the Peach Bowl.

A 1961 graduate of the University of Tulsa, Watts played running back for the Golden Hurricane. He earned a master's degree from Pittsburg (Kan.) State in 1964.

His family includes wife, Marlene, his daughter Charlavan, and his son, Danny.

Gino Guidugli
Running Backs / Recruiting Coordinator

Gino Guidugli is entering his second season with CMU as running backs coach and recruiting coordinator.

In his first season, Guidugli led a deep stable of running backs that averaged 132.8 yards per game and posted 16 rushing touchdowns. The group was led by sophomore Saylor Lavallii, who rushed for a team-high 807 yards and five touchdowns.

This is Guidugli's second stint with CMU as he was an offensive graduate assistant from 2009-11. He assisted in coaching the receivers and the defensive scout team.

Most recently, Guidugli was the starting quarterback for the Arena Football League's Milwaukee Mustangs. In 2011, he passed for 1,313 yards with 23 touchdowns and four interceptions in five games and helped lead the Mustangs on a three-game winning streak to finish the season.

Guidugli has also played professionally in the AFL for the New York Dragons (2008), for the CFL's British Columbia Lions (2007-08), and with the Green Bay Blizzard of the AFL2 (2007, 2009), earning Offensive Player of the Week honors three times during the regular season. He also spent training camp and the preseason with the NFL's Tennessee Titans in 2005.

Guidugli played at the University of Cincinnati from 2001-04. He is the Bearcats' record holder for attempts (1,556), completions (880), passing yards (11,453), touchdown passes (78), and total offense (11,661).

Guidugli guided Cincinnati to a victory in the 2004 Fort Worth Bowl, when Enos was Guidugli's position coach, earning MVP honors. In 2001, he received freshman All-America recognition, leading Cincinnati to seven wins and a berth in the Motor City Bowl.

A four-year letter winner, Guidugli was named the Claude Rost Team MVP in 2001 and 2004. Also a standout in the classroom, he was a three-time Conference USA Scholar Athlete. In 2005, Guidugli was inducted into the University's Ring of Honor.

A native of Fort Thomas, Ky., Guidugli earned his bachelor's degree in business marketing from Cincinnati (2005) and master's degree in sport administration from Central Michigan (2012).

Mose Rison
Wide Receivers

Mose Rison, a member of Central Michigan's 1974 Division II national championship team and former assistant coach, is in his third season as the Chippewas' receivers coach.

Rison has helped CMU put together one of the top wide receiving groups in the Mid-American Conference including 2013 First Team All-MAC selection Titus Davis.

Heading into his senior year, Davis already ranks on CMU's career list for receiving yards (2,720) and touchdowns (24). He is first among all active players in the nation in career yards per catch (18.9). In 2013, Davis recorded 61 receptions for 1,109 yards and eight touchdowns and was named CMU's Most Valuable Player. Despite missing time due to injury in 2012, Davis led the Chippewas in receiving with 860 yards, eight receiving touchdowns, and a 71.7 receiving yards per game average, earning Second Team All-MAC honors.

2012 graduate Cody Wilson cemented his status as one of the greatest receivers in program history with a standout senior season. The Third Team All-MAC selection and 2012 Kurt Dobronski Award winner led the team with 74 receptions and ranked second in receiving yards (840) and receiving yards per game (64.6), recording five 100-yard receiving games. Wilson finished his career catching a pass in 42 consecutive games and ranks third all-time in receptions (230) and fifth in in receiving yards (2,729). In his final game in the maroon and gold, he fittingly caught the game-winning touchdown pass in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.

A native of Flint, Mich., Rison was a four-year letterman (1974-77) who still ranks 10th in Central Michigan history with 2,838 career rushing yards. He was CMU's Most Valuable Player and an All-Mid-American Conference First Team selection after rushing for 1,241 yards and scoring 12 touchdowns (11 rushing, one kickoff return) in 1977.

Rison's coaching career began at CMU, where he coached receivers and directed the special teams from 1981-88. He spent two seasons at Navy (1989-90) and five at Rutgers (1991-95) before a six-year run at Stanford (1996-2001) that included a Pac-10 Conference championship in 1999 and trip to the Rose Bowl.

Rison spent two seasons in the National Football League, coaching the New York Jets' receivers in 2001 and 2002. He was part of a staff that helped lead the Jets to the AFC Wild Card in 2001 and an AFC East championship in 2002.

In 2006, Rison was named assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Carolina Central. While mentoring a freshman quarterback, he helped install a new offensive system that produced a school-record 30.9 points per game as the Eagles finished 11-1 and won the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association title.

Rison was named head coach in 2007 and led NCCU's transition from NCAA Division II to the Football Championship Subdivision level. He was 16-22 in three and a half seasons as NCCU's head coach.

He earned his bachelor's degree from CMU in 1978 and master's degree in 1983. Rison and his wife, Marilynn, have two daughters, Dominique and Tara.

Sherrone Moore
Tight Ends

Sherrone Moore joined the Central Michigan football staff as its tight ends coach for the 2014 season.

Moore spent the past five seasons with the Louisville football program including the last two as the tight ends coach. He also served as a graduate assistant from 2009-11 with his primary focus being the offensive line.

In his two seasons as a full-time assistant at Louisville, the program went 23-3 with a BCS bowl appearance and a BIG EAST title in 2012. Cardinal tight ends caught 43 passes this past season, an improvement over 2012 when they recorded 30 catches. Junior Gerald Christian led the group with a career-best 28 receptions for 426 yards and four touchdowns.

Moore also helped B.J. Butler convert from a defensive end to a tight end before the 2013 Sugar Bowl versus Florida. Butler caught two passes for 43 yards in that game and was instrumental in Louisville's victory over the Gators.

During his time as a graduate assistant, Moore helped the Cardinals to a pair of bowl appearances and worked with first team All-BIG EAST offensive guard Mark Wetterer.

Moore played two seasons at Oklahoma on the offensive line, helping the Sooners win two Big 12 Championships and play in two BCS bowl games. He saw action in 14 games at offensive guard. Moore came to OU from Butler County (Kan.) Community College, where he was a two-year starter. He helped Butler to two conference titles and a 20-3 record in two seasons, earning second team all-conference honors.

Moore earned his bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Oklahoma in 2008.

Derrick Frazier
Offensive Line

Derek Frazier joined coach John Bonamego’s staff at Central Michigan as the offensive line coach on March 4, 2015.

Frazier spent the last three seasons as the offensive line coach at Colorado State, where he helped lead a program that showed tremendous progress during his tenure.

The Rams went from four victories in 2012, Frazier’s first year, to 10 in 2014; and, they went from the Mountain West Conference’s ninth-ranked offense in 2012 to its second-ranked in 2014. The Rams were ranked 18th nationally in offense in ’14.

In the 2013-14 seasons combined, Colorado State set 21 individual player records, including Kapri Bibbs’ 1,741-yard rushing total in 2013, the school record and a total that ranked sixth nationally. His 31 rushing touchdowns was also a Colorado State record.

Two Frazier-coached offensive linemen from Colorado State, Ty Sambrailo and Weston Richburg, earned First Team All-Mountain West honors and Richburg was selected in the second round of the NFL draft by the New York Giants. He is one of several players that Frazier has mentored who was drafted by an NFL team or signed professionally as a free agent.

Prior to his time at Colorado State, Frazier served as an assistant, primarily on the offensive line or, in some cases, as the offensive coordinator, at Fresno State (2006-11 and ’03-04), Northern Arizona (’05-06), Adams State (Colorado) College (2001), Nichols (Mass) College (2000).

Frazier earned four letters as an offensive lineman at Northern Colorado and was the starting center on the Bears’ 1996 team, which won the NCAA Division II national championship. He earned the team’s Most Inspirational Offensive Player award that season.

Frazier earned his bachelor of arts degree from Northern Colorado and his master’s degree from Nichols College.

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