Football coach Al Golden announced the promotion of defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio to assistant head coach, yesterday.

D’Onofrio, who had a short NFL career in the early 1990s, will continue his duties as defensive coordinator but will take on additional administrative duties.

D’Onofrio is a longtime colleague of Golden’s, having played with him at Penn State and worked with him when Golden was himself a defensive coordinator with the University of Virginia before he was brought to Temple.

D’Onofrio is a native of North Bergen, N.J.