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Dasher will be in his second season as the Hornets co-Defensive Coordinator.  He came to ASU after three seasons as University of Massachusetts.  He brings more than 35 years coaching experience in both the collegiate and professional ranks.

Under Daisher’s first season at the co-defensive coordinator, ASU’s defense showed tremendous improvement as the season went on.  The Hornets finished the season as the SWAC’s second best team in points allowed average only allowing 24.8 points per game.

The Western Michigan graduate entered coaching in 1979 as a graduate assistant at Illinois before spending five seasons at Northern Illinois (1980-84), first as receivers coach, and later as defensive line coach and special teams coordinator.

Daisher then spent four seasons as linebackers coach at Eastern Michigan (1985-88) before a four-year tenure at Cincinnati (1989-92) as defensive line coach. He moved on to be D-Line coach at Army (1995-97), Indiana (1998), Army (1999) and Indiana (2000) before two seasons at East Carolina (2001-02).

He entered the pro ranks in 2004 with the Philadelphia, helping the Eagles reach the Super Bowl as special teams’ quality control and assistant defensive line coach. After the two-year stint, Daisher spent the next four seasons as special teams’ coordinator for Oakland (2006), Cleveland (2007-08), and Philadelphia (2009).

While in the NFL two of his players led the league in kick returns.  Josh Cribbs led the NFL in kickoff returns in 2007 while DeSean Jackson led the NFL in punt returns in 2009.

Daisher was the D-Line coach for Hartford of the United Football League (2010), before returning to college football as defensive backs coach at Bryant (2011) before his UMass stint.

He is married to Danielle and they are the parents of Nicole, Ted and Taylor.