TAMPA, FLA., JAN. 16, 2026 – South Florida Football Head Coach Brian Hartline has announced the addition of Sean Binckes to the Bulls staff as tight ends coach.

A young, rising coach with NFL coaching experience, Binckes worked the 2025 season as an offensive assistant with the Las Vegas Raiders working with tight ends under offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. Raiders All-Pro tight end Brock Bowers, a former Georgia All-American, finished second on the team with 64 receptions for 680 yards and led the team with seven touchdown receptions. Fellow tight end Michael Mayer was fifth on the team with 35 catches for 328 yards and a touchdown.

Binckes, who played tight end at Long Island University Post, comes to Tampa with 10 years of coaching experience. His last collegiate coaching position was at Ohio State where he worked with Hartline and Kelly on the offensive side of the ball as the Buckeyes claimed the 2024 College Football Playoff Championship.

He also has coaching stops at Temple, FIU and Nassau Community College.

Binckes earned his bachelor's degree in health sciences from LIU Post and went on to receive a master's degree in recreation and sports management from FIU.

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The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and completed its 29th season in 2025. In 2025, Bulls went 9-4, earned a third straight bowl appearance, made the program's first College Football Playoff ranking appearance, and were ranked four times in the weekly AP Top 25 poll. USF completed construction on a new $22-million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023 and a $349-million on-campus stadium and football operations center broke ground in the fall of 2024 and is slated for completion by 2027. The Bulls have posted 18 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections (including two consensus selections, the last coming in 2021), as well as 35 first-team all-conference honorees. USF has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft while the Bulls have made 13 bowl game appearances (going 8-5), which is tied for the third-most in the first 25 seasons of a program's bowl eligibility. USF posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016, while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 campaigns and reached as high as No. 2 in the Associated Press rankings during the 2007 season.
 
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