Another Air Force coach to join Elliott’s coaching staff?

By Jerry Ratcliffe

Could it be that Virginia may go back to Colorado Springs for another assistant football coach?

Air Force defensive backs coach Curome Cox has changed his Twitter profile background to a Virginia logo. Cox worked under former Air Force defensive coordinator John Rudzinski, who was hired Thursday as Tony Elliott’s new defensive coordinator at UVA.

Cox just finished his second season as defensive backs coach for the Falcons, after a stint at Albany where he served as cornerbacks coach in 2019. He also coached at UConn and Coastal Carolina.

A former NFL player for the Denver Broncos, Houston Texans and Atlanta Falcons (43 total games over three seasons), he was a standout defensive back at Maryland under Ralph Friedgen. That Terps team played in the Orange Bowl 2002, then three more bowls after that.

Cox was a star special teams player, earning a finalist spot for the 2006 AFC Special Teams Player of the Year Award.