His first Bowling Green staff featured a Notre Dame graduate assistant named Dan Mullen (the head coach at Mississippi State), former Brown
offensive line coach John Hevesy (Mullen's offensive co-coordinator), former Arkansas State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa (who became LSU's offensive coordinator for two years), former Villanova running backs coach Stan Drayton (on Meyer's Ohio State staff), Gregg Brandon (who would succeed Meyer at BGSU), Tim Beckman (who went on to spend three years as Toledo's head coach and is heading toward a fourth year at Illinois), and Tim Banks (currently Beckman's defensive coordinator).