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Urbanik To Join Wake Forest Broadcast Team
June 11, 2004 The Wake Forest ISP Sports Network has added former Wake Forest assistant football coach Bill Urbanik to its football radio broadcast team. Urbanik will serve as the network's color analyst, replacing Ed Bradley, who stepped aside to follow his son Jeff's upcoming college football career at Western Carolina. Urbanik, a Demon Deacon assistant coach from 1978-1984, served on the staffs of John Mackovic and Al Groh. He was defensive line coach for the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XXIII. His other professional coaching stops were with the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders as well as stints in the Canadian Football League and the XFL. Besides Wake Forest, he has also coached collegiately at Marshall and Northern Illinois. Urbanik, who graduated from Ohio State in 1970, was a three-year letter winner under legendary coach Woody Hayes and earned Academic All-America honors in 1969. A defensive tackle, Urbanik helped the Buckeyes to a 20-1 record in his final two seasons of 1968 and 1969. The 1968 team went undefeated, won the Big Ten Conference title and captured the national championship by beating the USC Trojans, 27-16, in the 1969 Rose Bowl. Urbanik will team with the "Voice of the Demon Deacons" Stan Cotten beginning with the broadcast of Wake Forest's 2004 season opener at Clemson September 4. |