Danny Langsdorf - Football Coach

Danny Langsdorf

Title:
Offensive Coordinator / Quarterbacks Coach
Email:
dlangs@temple.edu
Phone:
215-204-4694

DANNY LANGSDORF
Hometown	McMinnville, Ore.
College	Linfield (Ore.) College
Family	Wife: Michele
	Children: sons Dawsen adn Carter

Coaching Experience
Year	School, Position
2022-	Temple, OC / QBs
2020-21	Colorado, PGC / QBs
2020	UNLV, PGC / QBs
2019	Fresno State, PGC / QBs
2018	Oregon, OA
2015-17	Nebraska, OC / QBs
2014	New York Giants, QBs
2005-13	Oregon State, OC / QBs
2002-04	New Orleans Saints, OQC / WRs
2000-01	Edmonton (CFL), OC / QBs
1999	Edmonton (CFL), WRs
1997-98	Oregon State, GA / TEs
1997	California Lutheran, QBs
Postseason Experience
Year	Bowl, School
2020	Alamo Bowl, Colorado
2018	Redbox Bowl, Oregon
2016	Music City Bowl, Nebraska
2015	Foster Farms Bowl, Nebraska
2013	Hawai'i Bowl, Oregon State
2012	Alamo Bowl, Oregon State
2009	Maaco (Las Vegas) Bowl, Oregon State
2008	Sun Bowl, Oregon State
2007	Emerald Bowl, Oregon State
2006	Sun Bowl, Oregon State

Danny Langsdorf was named offensive coordinator and quarterback coach for Temple Football in January, 2022. He came to Temple after serving two seasons as pass game coordinator and quarterback coach at Colorado.

In 2022, Langsdorf oversaw true freshman starting quarterback, E.J. Warner who registered one of the best campaigns in Temple history. Warner had a record-breaking season, setting the single-game passing record for yards (527) and completions (45), while throwing for a career-high five touchdowns against East Carolina in the season finale. He became the first quarterback in school history to throw for over 500 yards in a game, the first to post two 400-yard games in a season, and the first to post three 300-yard games in one season. The ECU performance came just two weeks after Warner set the record for passing yards (486) and completions (42) in a shootout at Houston. At the end of his first season, Warner owned many Temple single-season records. His 3,028 passing yards are the most by a freshman in Temple history, and it ranks second to P.J. Walker's 2016 total of 3,295 for most by any quarterback. Warner is in sole possession of first place on the all-time single-season completions record with 278. He also was the only quarterback in the FBS to throw for over 450 yards in a game multiple times in 2022. Warner became the first Temple player to win AAC Rookie of the Year since its inception in 2013 (Tyler Matakevich won the Big East Rookie of the Year in 2012).

Prior to his time at Temple, Langsdorf, spent two seasons at Colorado. In 2021, the Buffaloes ranked first in the Pac-12, and third in the country, in red zone offense.

Langsdorf joined the Buffaloes after brief stop at UNLV, where he was coaching the same roles for a little less than two months. He spent the 2019 season in similar tasks for Fresno State after serving as an offensive analyst in 2018 at Oregon.

Langsdorf has 25 years of experience on the collegiate and professional levels, all on the offensive side of the ball augmented by some extensive special teams coaching. He has 16 years of Power 5 conference experience, including 12 as an offensive coordinator.
In his first season at CU, he had the challenge of grooming a new starter at the quarterback position, after two players essentially held the role for the better part of the previous six-and-a-half seasons. Langsdorf successfully tutored Sam Noyer, who was a quarterback on the roster for his first three years in Boulder but switched to a safety on defense. Noyer returned to the signal-caller spot and would earn second-team All-Pac-12 honors, the first CU quarterback to earn first- or second-team recognition in 24 years.
Prior to his one year at Oregon, he was Mike Riley’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for nine seasons at Oregon State (2005-13) and then for three more at Nebraska (2015-17). The Beavers earned six bowl berths (four wins) and the Cornhuskers two in his time with Riley, of which he coached both school’s all-time leading quarterbacks, Sean Mannion (OSU) and Tommy Armstrong, Jr. (NU).

Langsdorf oversaw a Nebraska offense in 2015 that was one of the most prolifically balanced in team history. For only the third time ever, the Huskers had over 3,000 passing yards and over 2,000 rushing yards (3,470 and 2,340, respectively, for 5,810 yards total). Nebraska finished in the top three in the Big Ten in passing, scoring, total offense and third-down efficiency. The 2016 Huskers posted a 9-4 record and earned a Music City Bowl berth opposite Tennessee. The offense was among the nation’s leaders in fewest turnovers committed (14, its fewest since 1992), quarterback sacks allowed (15) and in time of possession (32:30). Five Husker offensive players earned All-Big Ten honors in 2016, including Armstrong, who became NU’s career leader in passing and total offense.

His first stint with Riley, Langsdorf’s Oregon State offenses were regularly among the most productive in conference, with nine of OSU’s top 13 single season total offensive yardage outputs coming under Langsdorf’s coaching. He coached three of the top six all-time leading passers in OSU history (Mannion, Sean Canfield and Matt Moore), along with his schemes producing two of the top three rushers and the top three receivers, including Brandin Cooks, the 2013 Biletnikoff Award recipient.

He had many good offensive units at Oregon State, but the 2013 Beaver offense was his best. It racked up a school record 6,071 yards (467.0 ypg, third in the Pac-12) while leading the league in passing (372.6 ypg). Cooks set Pac-12 records with 128 receptions for 1,730 yards, while Mannion finished his career as the conference’s all-time leading passer (13,600 yards). His 2009 offense also led the Pac-10 in passing, pass efficiency and first downs.

In-between in 2014, he was the quarterbacks coach for the New York Giants, where he worked with Eli Manning, the two-time Super Bowl champion who enjoyed one of his best seasons under Langsdorf’s tutelage. Manning threw for 4,410 yards, the second-most in franchise history, and 30 touchdowns that year, completing then a career-best 63.1 percent of his passes (which he has topped just once since).

Langsdorf began his collegiate coaching career as the quarterbacks coach at California Lutheran in 1996, after serving as a player/coach earlier that year in Germany for the Deggendorf Blackhawks. He then moved to Oregon State, serving two years as a graduate assistant coaching the tight ends in 1997-98, the first time he was hired by Riley. He got his first taste of coaching in the professional ranks for Edmonton in the Canadian Football League, where for the 1999-2001 seasons he was the Eskimos’ offensive coordinator and the quarterbacks and receivers coach. His teams averaged 26.3 points per game, including a 56-26 win at Winnipeg in 1999, still to date the most points Edmonton has scored in a road game.

He then returned to the states joining the New Orleans Saints for three years (2002-04) as an assistant coach, handling offense quality control duties along with assisting with the receivers and special teams. After his stint in New Orleans he began what would be a 13-year association with Mike Riley.

He played quarterback at Boise State (1991-93) and Linfield (Ore.) College (1994-95). He was a two-year starter and an All-Northwest Conference performer as a junior at Linfield playing for his father (Ed), and earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science in 1995. In 17 games, he threw for 2,724 yards, completing 195-of-356 passes with 28 touchdowns and just 10 interceptions. He also rushed for 107 yards and three touchdowns, as Linfield was 14-5 during his time there winning back-to-back Mt. Hood League titles.

Langsdorf was born June 28, 1972 in Fargo, N.D., but grew up in McMinnville, Ore., and graduated from McMinnville High, where he lettered in football, basketball and baseball. In May, 2023, he was inducted into McMinnville's Hall of Fame. His hobbies include water and snow skiing. He is married to the former Michele Bertrand (a Lindfield graduate and letterwinner in softball who still holds several school pitching records); the couple has two sons, Dawsen (11) and Carter (9).

In May 2007, Langsdorf underwent surgery to donate a kidney to Laurie Cavanaugh, the wife of Oregon State offensive line coach Mike Cavanaugh, who coached with Langsdorf at the time; she is also the daughter of Kevin Gilbride, the longtime NFL assistant coach.