Event Date: September 2nd, 1982
Event Description: Steelers Lose Dotsch
Source: UPI-Pittsburgh Tribune
Pittsburgh Steelers assistant Rollie Dotsch will be named Thursday as head coach of the United States Football League's Birmingham Stallions, team officials confirmed Wednesday.
Team spokesman Hal Hayes said a news conference is scheduled for Thursday morning to make the official announcement.
Dotsch, the Steelers' offensive line coach for four years, has been talking to the Stallions for several weeks. He has been grooming former Kent State Coach Ron Blackledge to take over his position with Pittsburgh.
Dotsch played guard for Michigan in the early 1950s and has spent the last 11 years as an NFL assistant in Green Bay, New England, Detroit and Pittsburgh. Before coming to the NFL, he was an assistant at Northern Michigan, Colorado and Missouri.
He was also a head coach at Northern Michigan, where his teams compiled a 33-15-2 record in five seasons, including the only unbeaten regular season in the school's history.
The Thursday announcement will end a summer-long search for a head coach. Several names were mentioned along the way, and one candidate, Dallas Cowboys assistant Gene Stallings, turned down the job.
Among others who talked to the Stallions were Jack Gotta, coach of the Calgary Stampeders. Gotta was coach of the Birmingham franchise of the defunct World Football League. The Stallions will be in the league's Central Division along with Chicago, Detroit and Tampa.
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