Recruiting Area(s): East Michigan, Northeast United States
Robert (Bobby) Erhardt officially became the Broncos' running backs coach and special teams coordinator in March of 2012.
Erhardt spent the past two seasons at his alma mater, Westfield State
University, where he served as the special teams coordinator and
offensive line coach. He began his coaching career in the state of
Michigan, serving as the inside linebacker coach at Saginaw Valley State
in 1988, recruiting in the metro Detroit area.
Erhardt continued
his winning ways with his second position as the linebacker coach at
Cornell during the Big Red's run to the 1990 Ivy League championship.
After a two-year stint at UMass, Erhardt spent a pair of seasons at
Penn State (1993-94), helping the Nittany Lions to a Big Ten
championship and 1995 Rose Bowl title, serving as a graduate assistant
for the offensive line.
Erhardt has served as the defensive backs coach and recruiting
coordinator at Buffalo (1995-98), defensive coordinator and defensive
backs coach at Oberlin College (1999-2000), director of football
operations at Rutgers (2001-03), where he worked with WMU head coach
Bill Cubit, and as the special teams coordinator and linebackers coach
at Holy Cross (2004).
Erhardt (46/DOB: 1-26-66), a native of Massachusetts, coached at the
high school level for five seasons before returning to his alma mater.
He graduated from Westfield State in 1988 with a bachelors in mass
communications. Erhardt and his wife, the former Sandra M. Lapointe,
have three children, Madelyn, Hanna and Jason.
