Terry Bodnar

Assistant Football Coach - Defensive Coordinator & Inside Linebackers

Terry Bodnar is in his 26th year on the Carnegie Mellon staff and his 24th as defensive coordinator. He joined Carnegie Mellon as a graduate assistant in 1984, and one year later was appointed assistant outside linebackers coach. He was promoted to defensive coordinator in the spring of 1986.

Under Bodnar, Carnegie Mellon annually boasts one of the top defensive units in the University Athletic Association (UAA). Last season, ten Tartan defensive players earned All-UAA honors, while two earned Academic All-America honors. During the Tartans’ playoff run in 2006, the defense finished ranked sixth nationally in scoring defense and eighth in interceptions.

Carnegie Mellon has built a tradition of strong linebacker units under Bodnar’s tutelage. Robert O’Toole, a stalwart on the 1990 NCAA playoff team, was named Academic All-American Player of the Year. Bodnar also molded one of the best linebackers in Carnegie Mellon history in Chad Wilson, who in 1993 was a first-team All-American and UAA Defensive Player of the Year. Ray Ardire was the 1995 UAA Defensive Player of the Year and a two-time first team All-UAA selection.

In 2000, Nick Zitelli was named an American Football Coaches Association All-American and received the MVP award in the AFCA Aztec Bowl in Merida, Mexico. Aaron Lewis, in 2005 and 2006, was named second team All-American by D3football.com and third team by Don Hansen’s Football Gazette. Lewis was also named an Academic All-American both years and played in the Aztec Bowl in 2006.

Bodnar earned his bachelor’s degree in education in 1976 from Marietta College, where he lettered as a linebacker and center. He earned his master’s degree in sports science in 1988 from Indiana University (Pa.)

Following his graduation from Marietta, Bodnar began his teaching and coaching career at Washington Junior High School in Parkersburg, W.Va., where he taught and coached football, wrestling and track. In 1978, he returned to Deer Lakes to teach math, science and computer science and to coach football, wrestling and track. He also served as Deer Lakes’ strength coach before leaving for Carnegie Mellon in 1984.

Bodnar has been a member of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) since 1982. He served five years as a member of the AFCA Coach of the Year Committee.

Bodnar also has spoken at football coaching clinics throughout the country for the Clinics of Champions, Eastbay Football Clinics, Glazier Football Clinics and various county and state clinics. He is featured in four clinic videos marketed by USA Coaches Clinics with royalties benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In 2000, he created three videos on defensive strategy for Coaches Choice. In addition, Bodnar has written articles that have been published in the AFCA Summer Manual, the Athletic Journal and Football Clinic.

He and his wife, Joan, live in West Deer Township with their son Jonathan who was a senior on the 2007 Tartan team.

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Rich Erdelyi

Assistant Football Coach - Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks

Rich Erdelyi enters his 25th year on Carnegie Mellon’s staff and 24th as the Tartans’ offensive coordinator. He came to Carnegie Mellon in 1985 as an assistant line coach and was promoted to offensive coordinator and running backs coach in 1986.

Powerful and prolific offenses during Erdelyi’s tenure have become synonymous with Carnegie Mellon football. In 1993, the Tartans set a school record for points in a season with 370 (37 points per game) and ranked 10th in NCAA Division III scoring offense. During the Tartans playoff run in 2006, the offense finished ranked eighth nationally in rushing offense (260.6) and set a school record with 3,127 yards rushing.

After coaching the running backs for 20 years, Erdelyi made the transition to quarterback coach in 2006.

As running backs coach, Erdelyi has tutored several of the finest backs ever to play at Carnegie Mellon and in the UAA. In 1990, Erdelyi coached All-American halfback Scott Barnyak, who led all NCAA divisions in scoring with 13.8 points per game and was the UAA Offensive Player of the Year. Upon graduation, Barnyak finished his career as the Tartans’ all-time leading rusher (2,618 yards) and scorer (308 points). In 1994, fullback Jason Grusky earned first-team All-UAA honors while finishing as the school’s second all-time leading rusher with 1,913 yards upon graduation. His 11 touchdowns in UAA play set a league record. In 2003, fullback Brad Stanley broke Barnyak’s record for single-season touchdowns and ranked fifth in Division III with 21.

In 1999, fullback Mike Campie moved into first place on Carnegie Mellon’s all-time rushing list. Campie, a two-time All-UAA fullback, rushed for 1,569 yards and scored 15 touchdowns in two years. His 764 yards as a freshman set a new Carnegie Mellon mark. Campie also owns the freshman single-game rushing mark of 173 yards. In 2004, fullback Travis Sivek became Carnegie Mellon’s first freshman to rush for 100 or more yards in back-to-back games en route to earning UAA and ECAC Southwest Rookie of the Year accolades. Sivek, a two-time UAA Offensive Player of the Year honoree, broke the all-time rushing record after three years and ended his career with 4,183 yards. He finished the 2006 campaign with 1,326 yards, the highest single-season total in school history. During his four year performance, Sivek recorded 59 touchdowns becoming the school’s all-time leader in scoring with 354 points and ranks 18th on the NCAA Division III scoring list. Sivek’s teammate for four years, Robert Gimson, moved into third place on the school’s all-time rushing list passing Barnyak in 2007. Gimson finished his career with 2,712 yards.

Prior to joining the Carnegie Mellon staff, Erdelyi was an administrative assistant and scout for the Pittsburgh Maulers of the United States Football League during the 1983 and 1984 seasons. Before working for the Maulers he was head coach at Pittsburgh’s Central Catholic High School from 1977-82. Under Erdelyi, the Vikings captured the West Penn Conference Championship in 1978 and advanced to the WPIAL Quad A Championship Playoffs in 1978 and 1981. During his tenure at Central, Erdelyi coached former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino.

A native of Highland Park, N.J., Erdelyi earned seven varsity letters in football, basketball and baseball at Highland Park High School. An all-county and All-Central New Jersey selection as a senior center and linebacker, Erdelyi was a recipient of Highland Park’s Dr. Robert Weiss Memorial Trophy for devotion to athletics. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1970 from the University of Pittsburgh.

A member of the AFCA, Erdelyi served a four-year term on the AFCA’s Assistant Coaches Committee. Erdelyi has three clinic videos on the Wing-T offense marketed by USA Coaches Clinics with royalties benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He is also the featured speaker of the Frank Glazier Football Clinic on the Wing-T offense and speaks at eight clinics annually around the country located in Denver, Kansas City, Baltimore, Boston, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Orlando and Newark.

In addition to his football duties, Erdelyi is Carnegie Mellon’s head golf coach as well as a physical education instructor. He was the 1998, 2006 and 2009 UAA Golf Coach of the Year.

Erdelyi and his wife, Judy, reside in Pittsburgh. He has three daughters: Jennifer, Hollie and Julie. All three are graduates of Carnegie Mellon.

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Jason Makrinos

Assistant Football Coach - Assistant Recruiting Coordinator & Defensive Backs

Jason Makrinos begins his second season on the Carnegie Mellon staff in 2009 as the defensive backs coach.  Besides working with the defensive backs, Makrinos is the assistant recruiting coordinator and strength and conditioning coordinator.  In Makrinos’ first season, four of his defensive backs received All-UAA accolades while another was named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America second team.  Carnegie Mellon’s defense recorded 16 interceptions in 2008, ranking nationally.  

Makrinos came to Carnegie Mellon following a stint as a graduate assistant at Division I Kent State University where he worked with the defense. While coaching for the Golden Flashes he helped mentor two cornerbacks that appeared on NFL rosters including one that was drafted in the fourth round by the Denver Broncos in 2008.  

Prior to Kent State, he coached for two years at Slippery Rock University, where he worked with linebackers and defensive backs. Makrinos started his coaching career at Westminster, his alma mater, in 2004, as he served as a student assistant and worked with the defensive line as well as helped in the recruiting process.

While a student-athlete at Westminster, he played on the defensive line for the Titans. Makrinos was named to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll and was a Collegiate All-American Scholar Award honoree.

Makrinos graduated from Westminster College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology in 2005 and completed a master’s degree in sports management from Slippery Rock University in 2007.

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