A veteran coach with over two decades of collegiate experience, Garret Chachere joins the Southeastern Louisiana football staff for the 2018 season. Chachere coaches the team’s running backs and serves as the SLU passing game coordinator.
A former offensive coordinator and special teams coordinator, he has coached every position except offensive line during his career and coached on both sides of the ball in bowl games. He has both running backs and linebackers that he coached currently in the NFL and the CFL. The versatile coach has coached all-conference performers on offense, defense and special teams.
Chachere has also coached on staffs with eight future NFL quarterbacks, including Super Bowl LII MVP Nick Foles and first overall pick Jared Goff. Goff is one of three first round quarterbacks Chachere worked with. He also coached Ka'deem Carey, a two-time Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year and Chicago Bears draft pick.
A veteran of two Power 5 programs and four Louisiana programs, he has coached against some of the game's legendary head coaches and in some of the most hallowed stadiums in college football.
Chachere oversaw a productive running back corps in his first season with the Lions. Under his mentorship, Darren Johnson and Devonte Williams both were named All-Southland Conference.
Chachere most recently was the offensive coordinator at New Mexico Highlands for the 2017 season. NMHU was one of 10 Division II teams to average over 5.0 yards a carry last season. The Cowboys improved over 80 spots in the national rankings in total offense, passing offense and rushing offense from the previous season. Under his guidance, NMHU set a new single-game record with 727 total yards versus Adams State.
Prior to his time at New Mexico Highlands, Chachere spent four seasons on the coaching staff at the University of California, including the final two as associate head coach. He was the Golden Bears’ running back coach in 2016. He coached the linebackers in 2014 and 2015 at Cal, after opening his tenure in Berkeley as the defensive ends coach in 2013.
The 2015 defense helped the Bears to their first eight-win season since 2009 and a win in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. The defense improved in every category from the previous season, including allowing 9.1 less points per game than the previous season.
Chachere spend the 2012 campaign at Southern Miss as the Golden Eagles’ special teams coordinator and tight ends coach, after spending three seasons on the offensive staff at Arizona. He was the running backs coach for the Wildcats in 2011, after spending the 2009 and 2010 seasons as the wide receivers coach.
His first two seasons in Arizona saw the Wildcats compete in the Holiday and Alamo Bowls. The 2010 Wildcats featured the nation’s ninth-ranked passing offense, as Chachere’s charges David Douglas (52 passes, 515 cards, five touchdowns) and David Roberts (44-487) were standouts for Arizona.
Chachere oversaw one of the nation’s top special team units during the 2007 and 2008 seasons at Memphis. Both of his campaigns with the Tigers ended with Memphis competing in bowl games – the 2007 New Orleans Bowl and 2008 St. Petersburg Bowl.
From 1999-2006, Chachere was the linebackers coach at Tulane and the punt return coordinator for his first five seasons with the Green Wave. He mentored Anthony Cannon, a 2006 NFL Draft selection by the Detroit Lions. A first team All-Conference USA performer as a senior, Cannon posted four straight 100-tackle seasons under Chachere’s tutelage and ranked third all-time on the league’s career tackles list at the end of his Green Wave career.
Chachere also recruited running back Matt Forte to Tulane. The two-time Pro Bowler recorded 9,415 yards in his professional career and five seasons of 1,000 or more rushing yards.
Chachere was the tight ends coach during the 1998 season at ULM. He was the linebackers coach at Nicholls from 1995 to 1997. The 1996 Colonels finished with eight wins after being winless in 1995, posting the biggest one-year turnaround in Division I history at the time on the way to earning a playoff berth.
Chachere opened his coaching career with stints at Bucknell (1994, defensive backs/special teams coordinator), Bloomsburg (1993, defensive backs) and Cheney (1992, defensive backs/running backs).
Chachere played for the Green Wave in 1987 and 1988 and was a member of the 1987 Independence Bowl team under then-head coach Mack Brown. A 1992 graduate of Tulane, the New Orleans native and Brother Martin High School alum earned his bachelor’s degree in communication.
Hometown: New Orleans, La.
Education: Tulane, 1992
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Coaching Timeline
2018-19 – Southeastern Louisiana – Running Backs/Passing Game Coordinator
2017 – New Mexico Highlands – Offensive Coordinator
2016 – California – Running Backs
2014-15 – California – Linebackers
2013 – California – Defensive Line
2012 – Southern Miss – Tight Ends/Special Teams Coordinator
2011 – Arizona – Running Backs
2009-11 – Arizona – Wide Receivers
2007-08 – Memphis – Special Teams Coordinator
2004-06 – Tulane – Linebackers
1999-03 – Tulane – Linebackers/Punt Return Coordinator
1998 – ULM – Tight Ends/Wide Receivers
1995-97 – Nicholls – Linebackers
1994 – Bucknell – Defensive Backs/Special Teams Coordinator
1993 – Bloomsburg – Defensive Backs
1992 – Cheyney – Defensive Backs/Running Backs
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Playing Career
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