Following graduation he remained with the program as a defensive graduate assistant.
Keady hired Weber as a 22-year-old graduate assistant, making $2,000 a year.
"This boy is almost as big an oaf as you were, which means he's a slightly better graduate assistant."
He then served as a defensive graduate assistant for the University of Hawai'i in 1991.
"Your graduate assistant seems more than capable. "
He would then spend the next three seasons (1995-1997) as an offensive graduate assistant at Georgia Tech.
He started his coaching career as a defensive graduate assistant at his alma mater before moving on to the high school level.
Additionally, there were never any researchers in the dormitories of the athletes as stated by Connolly; only a single graduate assistant was on hand.
The student faculty is composed of 1,763 graduate assistants and 2,419 student assistants.
McGarigle joined the Northwestern coaching staff as a defensive graduate assistant in 2011.