Brian Surace Offensive Line Coach First Season at NU: 2004 Alma Mater: Gettysburg '95

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Brian Surace returns for his fifth season as offensive line coach at Northeastern. His offensive lines have been dominating recently. Over the last four years, his players have helped Maurice Murray rush to a school record 3,806 yards and 43 touchdowns. Last season alone, the offensive line led Murray to 1,421 yards, which is second-most in a single season at NU. His line has also protected the quarterback well, allowing only 39 tackles for a loss, which ranked second in the nation, and 13 sacks. Surace has been influential on the progress of offensive line talent since he arrived at Northeastern. He has helped produce six All-Conference selections for the Huskies and one All-America, when Adam Bourget took the honor in 2004. Surace, 35, came to Northeastern from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, whose offense he built into one of the best in the Div. III ranks. Over five seasons, he worked his way up the RPI coaching ranks to associate head coach, while converting a run-oriented offense into one of the nation’s top passing offenses. During Surace’s tenure with the program, the team set 34 offensive records and led the nation in turnover margin (+2.4) in 2003. His final season with the Red Hawks was the most successful in school history as RPI set a program record for wins (11), won the Eastern Region championship and reached the semifinals of the Div. III playoffs. RPI went 39-12 during his tenure. Surace spent four years in the capacity of graduate assistant coach, spending 1996-97 with Springfield College and moving on to Rutgers in 1998-99, where he helped lead the nation’s biggest won-loss turnaround in the country in 1998. His first coaching job was an internship at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 1995, where he worked with the strong safeties and outside linebackers. As a player, Surace was a center for two seasons at Princeton before transferring to Gettysburg, where he graduated in 1995 with a degree in Management. He received his master’s in Physical Education from Springfield in 1999. Surace is also a noted football camp counselor and clinician.