Boise State football fills out its coaching staff by promoting a familiar name
Boise State football filled its 10th and final assistant coaching spot on Tuesday morning, forming a complete staff ahead of the 2026 season.
The program announced Tuesday that Frank Maile had been promoted from defensive analyst to defensive line assistant coach. Maile was the Broncos’ defensive line coach in 2021-22 before leaving to become the defensive end coach at Washington State. He returned to Boise State last February.
The promotion quickly wrapped up a tumultuous couple of weeks for the Broncos, who lost three assistant coaches to other programs.
Former wide receivers coach Matt Miller was the first to go in late December, when he left to join Washington State and new head coach Kirby Moore as the Cougars’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Former NFL wide receiver Alvis Whitted, who has experience coaching at both the NFL and college levels, replaced Miller.
The Broncos lost safeties coach Tyler Stockton to Michigan and cornerbacks coach Demario Warren to BYU in a matter of days. Those two were replaced by Terrence Brown, whose official title is defensive backs coach.
With Brown essentially replacing two coaching positions, an open spot somewhere was left for Boise State head coach Spencer Danielson to determine.
“He’s a really good football coach,” Danielson said about Maile last March, shortly after hiring him as a defensive analyst.
“I worked with him for two years. And so getting him back, to not only how he’s going to help us in the D line or defensively, (but also) having him around our whole team. ... Getting Frank Maile back was a monster hire for me this offseason.”
In his previous stint, Maile helped build a line in 2022 that helped the defense rank ninth in the country in total defense, sixth in pass defense and 16th in scoring defense. Maile also worked with defensive tackle Scott Matlock, whom the Los Angeles Chargers selected in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL Draft.
Between his two stints with Boise State, Maile developed Washington State defensive end Brennan Jackson into a 2024 NFL Draft pick and helped DE Ron Stone Jr. become an undrafted free agent pickup by the Las Vegas Raiders.
