Moeller head coach to join Bengals staff as assistant
Doug Rosfeld previously worked with head coach Zac Taylor at UC.
Moeller head football coach Doug CINCINNATI —
Rosfeld has accepted a position with the Cincinnati Bengals, Moeller High School announced Monday morning.
Rosfeld, the Greater Catholic League South Division Coach of the Year in his first season as the Crusaders’ head coach in 2018, will join Zac Taylor’s staff with the Bengals.
Taylor, the former Los Angeles Rams quarterbacks coach, was named the Bengals head coach Feb. 4.
Rosfeld and Taylor worked together at the University of Cincinnati in 2016 when Taylor was the offensive coordinator and Rosfeld was the director of player development.
“We had the opportunity to work together pretty closely throughout the season,” Rosfeld told WCPO
Jan. 11. “I think brilliant would be the right word to describe Zac Taylor. Driven, purposeful – his ability to teach the position – as a guy that played at a high level and also just understanding the booby traps and the tricks that defenses lay to catch quarterbacks. His ability to teach how to negotiate that was really unique. So from the day you meet him you see a unique football mind.”
Rosfeld reportedly will serve as an assistant to the head coach and will help Taylor with administrative duties. The Bengals also announced the addition of assistants Jemal Singleton (running backs) and Joey Boese (strength and conditioning).
Rosfeld, a 1997 Moeller graduate, led the Crusaders (6-5) to the school’s first outright league championship since 2013 with an unbeaten 3-0 record and a postseason berth.
Prior to being named the Moeller head coach, Rosfeld had been the University of Cincinnati football’s director of player development since March 2015.
“Moeller is the only high school in America I could consider working for,” Rosfeld told WCPO the night before he was hired by Moeller.
The next day, Rosfeld was introduced in front of family, friends and the Moeller staff in the school library. UC Director of Athletics Mike Bohn was also in attendance.
Rosfeld, who played center at UC and was All-Conference-USA following his junior and senior seasons (1999 and 2000), worked directly with UC’s student-athletes as the director of player development. That role involved mentoring and ensuring students adhered to the program goals and policies regarding intellectual, social, leadership, physical and skill development. He also helped coordinate off-the-field initiatives.
UC received the American Athletic Conference Team Academic Excellence Award this season for earning a 3.07 team grade-point average.
Rosfeld joined UC in 2015 after teaching social studies for nine years at Moeller while also being an assistant football coach. He also served as the Crusaders’ head rugby coach from 2009-14, helping to found the program. The rugby team had four consecutive state finals appearances and a state title in 2010.
As a Moeller football assistant, Rosfeld served as the offensive line coach, overseeing pass protecting, the run game and assisting on special teams. He was an assistant coach starting in 2005 under former head coach Bob Crable and then Rodenberg.
Rosfeld played football under former head coach Steve Klonne in the 1990s.
Moeller has 35 postseason football appearances, which is tied with Newark Catholic for the most in Ohio High School Athletic Association history.
Moeller has won nine state football titles (2013, 2012, 1985, 1982, 1980, 1979, 1977, 1976, 1975).