Miami Alum to Lead New Orleans Saints
8/23/2012 12:00:00 AM | Football
OXFORD, Ohio - Former two-time Miami University football captain Aaron Kromer ('90) has been tabbed interim head coach for the New Orleans Saints for the first six regular-season games of the 2012 season. Kromer is in his fifth season with the Saints and also serves as running game coordinator.
Kromer was a second-team All-Mid-America Conference offensive lineman in 1989 and three-year letterwinner for the Red and White. He began his coaching career at Miami in 1990. Kromer has spent his last 11 seasons in the NFL as an assistant with Oakland (2001-04) under John Gurden and Bill Callahan, Tampa Bay (2005-07 under Gruden), and New Orleans (2008-present).
Following the Saints' 2009 Super Bowl, Kromer and Dan Dalymple ('88), head strength and conditioning coach for New Orleans, served as Grand Marshals for the Parade of Classes during the 2010 Miami University Alumni Weekend.
Kromer will serve in the interim head coach roll while assistant head coach Joe Vitt will have to serve his suspension in connection with the NFL's bounty investigation. Vitt has been overseeing head coaching duties since Sean Payton's full-season suspension began in mid-April.
