Chino Fontenette                  Position: Graduate Assistant: Offense

Chino Fontenette enters his second season with the UT coaching staff as offensive graduate assistant after two years as running backs coach at Louisiana Tech.

Fontenette helped mold the 2008 Bulldogs ground game into the second-best unit in the WAC en route to the program's signature win at the Independence Bowl. And Tech tailback Daniel Porter finished his Bulldogs career with a school-record 3,352 yards.

Fontetette earned a double major from Tulane University in media arts and marketing in 2003 and was named to the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll. As a player, from 1999-2003, Fontenette saw action at running back, wide receiver and quarterback for an 8-5 squad that won the Hawaii Bowl in 2002.

He also spent 2004-05 working as an ESPN production assistant, including assignments on the NFL Draft, Sunday Night Football, the Pro Bowl and the NBA Draft. He returned to coaching as a graduate assistant for Tulane under head coach Chris Scelfo in 2005.