Illinois named former Montana coach Bobby Hauck as its new defensive coordinator Monday. Hauck joins Bret Bielema’s staff after 14 seasons over two stints at Montana, where he went 151-43. He also was the head coach at UNLV from 2010-14 and the associate head coach and special teams coordinator at San Diego State from 2015-17. Montana won eight conference titles, made 13 FCS playoff appearances and reached four national championship games under Hauck, 61. He left the Grizzlies with the most FCS playoff wins of any active coach — and the third-most all time. Hauck replaces Aaron Henry, who left to be co-defensive coordinator, passing game coordinator and defensive backs coach at Notre Dame. “Since meeting Coach Hauck early on in my head coaching career, I have had tremendous respect for who he is, what he stands for and the program he has built,” Bielema said in a statement. “He is a family man with incredible attention to detail and a great ability to teach the game to both his staffs and players. “Coach Hauck’s aggressive defensive scheme, which he learned at San Diego State and developed at Montana, will be an exciting new style that has never been seen here at Illinois.” Hauck’s defenses finished in the top 20 in the nation in scoring defense three times and in the top 10 in turnovers forced three times over the last five seasons, according to Illinois. He retired from Montana last week, saying the job of a head coach had stopped being fun. “From my job and the head coach’s desk — this is probably the most important thing I’ll say here — dealing with what college football has become is not always enjoyable as a head coach,” Hauck said during a news conference, according to The Athletic. “I just haven’t been enjoying it enough. I want to enjoy my career and my job. A lot of the head coach stuff in current-day Division I college football is not enjoyable.” Now he will resume coaching in a different role, pending approval by the Illinois Board of Trustees. ...read more read less