SAN DIEGO — San Diego football has added eight members to its coaching staff for the upcoming 2023 season, as announced by new head coach Brandon Moore on Tuesday afternoon.

Mike Fassel, Richard Brown, Mike McGlinchey, and Issac Carter have all joined the program, while Matt Aponte, Austen Jacobs, Aaron Laut, and Cody Tescher have been retained.

"Torero Football is committed to sustaining a winning culture and I am confident that this group of coaches are not just talented teachers, but also great men of impeccable character and faith," said Moore. "I'm excited to see them put their passion and expertise to work as we pursue our 13th PFL Championship this fall."

Aponte has been promoted to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after previously serving as the Toreros' tight ends coach. He joined San Diego in the fall of 2021 following six seasons at the University of Iowa under head coach Kirk Ferentz. Aponte was Hawkeyes' assistant quarterbacks coach in 2019 and 2020, and served as an offensive assistant from 2017 to 2018. During his career in Iowa City, the program won 60 games, three consecutive bowl games and a Big Ten West title.

Jacobs is set to return as USD's offensive line coach and will enter his second season in Alcala Park this fall.He joined the Toreros from Lamar University, where he coached tight ends. Prior to Lamar, Jacobs worked with an offensive front at San Diego State that helped produce nearly 350 yards of offense per game. During that stretch the Aztecs advanced to two bowl game appearances, including a 10-win season and a victory in the New Mexico Bowl in 2019.

Fassel will serve as USD's special teams coordinator and tight ends coach. He joins the Toreros after spending four seasons at Utah Tech, most recently as the Trailblazers' assistant head coach (2021 and 2022). Utah Tech's special teams unit thrived in 2019 under Fassel's watch, setting program records in field goals (11) and extra points (42) across just five games.

He came to Utah Tech from Snow College, where he spent the 2017 season as the Director of Football Operations, as well as serving as the wide receivers and special teams coach for the Badgers.

Prior to working at both the collegiate and professional level, Fassel spent his playing days as a three-year starter and letter-winner as both a kicker and holder at Boston College, where he graduated in 2004 before earning his master's degree in the summer of 2005.

Brown will serve as San Diego's wide receivers coach. He joins USD following two seasons at California Lutheran, where he served as the Lancers' recruiting coordinator and safeties coach.

Prior to CLU, he was an assistant coach at Occidental College (NCAA Division III) from 2013-2016 working with wide receivers.

After a three-year professional playing career in the Arena Football League, Brown joined the coaching ranks at Calabasas High School, where he oversaw assistant defensive backs and wide receivers.

McGlinchey will be the Toreros' assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator, and defensive line coach. Prior to USD, he was the head coach at Division II William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri for three seasons (2020-2022). His time with the Cardinals saw him lead the program to its first win since 2019 and its first Great Lakes Valley Conference win and road win since 2018. He coached 17 total All-GLVC performers in his tenure at William Jewell and had 22 players earn Academic All-GLVC honors.

Before William Jewell, he spent four years at Colorado School of Mines as the co-defensive coordinator, working primarily with the defensive line. McGlinchey helped lead the Orediggers to three Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships and three NCAA-II National Playoff appearances in 2016, 2018 & 2019 and coached 13 All-Conference performers. His previous coaching stops also include Salisbury University (defensive line coach), North Carolina Central University, (special teams, running backs, and defensive line), Towson University (Special Teams and Recruiting Coordinator), Princeton, New Hampshire, and the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League.

Carter has been named USD's associate head coach, co-defensive coordinator, and defensive backs coach. Prior to joining the Toreros, he was the head coach at Division III Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi for three seasons (2020-2022). His time with the Majors saw the program produce 30 All-SAA student-athletes, 98 members on the SAA All-Academic Honor Roll, 15 NFF Hampshire Honor Society inductees and 13 SAA Players of the Week. Prior to arriving in Jackson, he worked as the defensive coordinator and was a full-time Professor of Kinesiology at Mt. San Antonio College,

Prior to Mt. SAC, Carter served as the defensive coordinator at the Colorado School of Mines from 2015-2017. During his time with the Orediggers, he helped lead them to a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Championship and developed a number of all-conference selections. CSM finished in the top two defensively within the RMAC in 2016 and 2017.

Carter also has stops at Summit Christian School (HS) (West Palm Beach, Fla.) as head football/head track & field coach/Director of Athletics, Princeton University (FCS-NCAA) as assistant defensive backs coach, Las Vegas Locomotive (United Football League) as secondary coach, Colorado College (DIII-NCAA) as defensive coordinator, Whittier College (DIII-NCAA) as defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach, and New Mexico Highlands (DII-NCAA) as the defensive backs, pass game defense, special teams and strength and conditioning coach.

He played football at Cerritos College, before moving on to play at Eastern Kentucky (FSC-NCAA) under legendary coach Roy Kid. Carter then finished his playing career at New Mexico Highlands University (DII-NCAA), where he was an All-Conference player his final season.

Laut will return for his third year coaching at USD this fall. 2023 will mark his first season as the Toreros' outside linebackers coach after previously serving as USD's defensive tackles coach in 2021 and 2022.

Across his two years as a coach in Alcala Park, Laut has helped guide the San Diego defense to a combined 57.5 sacks. Under his guidance, Will Buck was named a Sophomore All-American and First Team All-PFL selection in 2021. Buck led the team with 10.0 sacks and added 39 total tackles, and was named PFL Defensive Player of the Week after a three-sack effort against Valparaiso.

From 2015-2018, Laut was a defensive tackle for the Toreros, including three years in a starting role. Laut competed in 42 career games, racking up 43 tackles, 10.5 tackles for loss, and seven sacks. He was also a three-time PFL Academic Honor Roll (2015, 2016, 2018) member. While he was a player, USD registered an overall record of 56-16 and made four FCS Playoff appearances.

After graduating with a degree in Business Administration, Laut stayed in San Diego as a graduate assistant in Fall 2019/Spring 2020.

While at New Mexico State, his duties included coaching the linebacker position group, run game identification, personnel, and charting on game day, running the scout team during practice, recruiting, and creating practice scripts.

Tescher will return as the Toreros' director of football operations, a role he has held since 2021, in addition to serving as San Diego's video coordinator. Tescher oversees all day-to-day management of the USD football program, including but not limited to travel, transportation, budgeting, scholar-athlete management, recruiting, and liaising between the team and San Diego Athletics' compliance, business, facilities, athletic training, equipment, and sports information offices.

He joined the Toreros from Northern Illinois University, where he worked both as the Assistant Director of Football Operations (2019-2020) and as a graduate assistant for football operations.

Prior to Northern Illinois, he worked as the director of football operations at UC Davis.

A 2014 University of San Diego graduate, Tescher played football for the Toreros from 2011 to 2013. His playing career saw him earn Scholar Athlete and All-Conference honors alongside a USD Offensive Lineman of the Year Award while maintaining a 3.16 GPA.

Tescher is currently in his second stint as San Diego football's director of operations after previously serving in the position from October 2014 to June 2016. He has also coached USD's tight ends (assistant, March 2021-April 2021) and worked as the director of operations for USD softball (February 2014-July 2014).

San Diego football will begin its first season under Moore on September 2 at Cal Poly. The Toreros will open up their home schedule on September 9, when they host Colorado Mesa at Torero Stadium. Game times and ticketing/broadcast information for USD's 2023 season will be released at a later date.