Franks completes his assistant staff

From staff reports

When Carl Franks took over as Duke's new head football coach Dec. 3, he said he would be the Blue Devils' offensive coordinator. And he meant it.

Les Koenning was relieved of his duties as offensive coordinator after just one season at Duke. Franks retained the entire defensive staff, including coordinator Bob Trott.

In addition to the seven returning assistants, former Duke All-America quarterback Ben Bennett was named quarterbacks coach and former Florida receiver Aubrey Hill was added as the receivers coach.

Bennett was a teammate of Franks' from 1980-82 at Duke during the time Steve Spurrier was the offensive coordinator. Hill has been a graduate assistant at Florida the past three years, while Bennett most recently was the offensive coordinator for Milwaukee of the Arena Football League.

"Both of these coaches will be coaching the position they played in college and both played under the offensive system that we plan to run here at Duke," Franks said in a statement. "Those are some of the valuable qualities that I feel will make them and our program successful."