Bob Bostad enters his first season with the Buccaneers in 2012, where he will coach the offensive line. 

Bostad comes to the Buccaneers after a highly successful six-year campaign at Wisconsin working as run game coordinator (2006-11) while also coaching the tight ends (2006-07) and offensive line (2008-11). He was instrumental in some of college football’s most explosive offensives, and, in particular, dominant rushing attacks. Under Bostad’s guidance, the Badgers’ offensive line became one of the most decorated position groups in the country. He tutored four first-team All-Americans on Wisconsin’s offensive front in the past two seasons, including C Pete Konz and G Kevin Zeitler in 2011 and T Gabe Carimi and G John Moffit in 2010, and had nine players earn All-Big Ten recognition from 2008-11 as offensive line coach. 

Four of Bostad’s offensive linemen have been selected in the past three NFL drafts, including three in the 2010 NFL Draft: Carimi, Moffitt and C Bill Nagy. Carimi was selected by the Chicago Bears in the first round after earning consensus All-American honors, the Big Ten Lineman of the Year award and the Outland Trophy as college football’s top interior lineman.  

As the Badgers’ run game coordinator since his start with the team in 2006, Bostad annually helped orchestrate one of the most powerful rushing attacks in the Big Ten and nationally, finishing with more than 3,000 yards each of the past two seasons — one of only eight teams nationally to accomplish that feat — en route to a pair of Big Ten titles and Rose Bowl berths. 

In 2011, Heisman trophy finalist RB Monte Ball rushed for 1,923 yards and set an NCAA record with 39 touchdowns. Ball earned first-team All-American honors, as well as the Graham-George Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year award. In 2010, the Badgers nearly became the first team in FBS history to have three different players rush for at least 1,000 yards in the same season: James White (1,052), John Clay (1,012) and Monte Ball (996). 

As tight ends coach during his first two seasons at Wisconsin, Bostad coached Travis Beckum. In 2007, Beckum recorded 75 receptions for 982 yards – both school records for a tight end – and was named first-team All-American and a John Mackey Award finalist.                                                             

Prior to Wisconsin, Bostad coached the offensive line at New Mexico (1999-2005), where he produced 14 All-Mountain West Conference performers, including seven first-team honorees. His 2005 offensive line opened holes for MWC Offensive Player of the Year DonTrell Moore, the nation’s 10th-leading rusher (118.0 yards/game). Moore recorded his fourth season rushing for 1,000 yards in 2005, making him, at the time, just the sixth player in NCAA history to record such a feat. 

Several of Bostad’s linemen from New Mexico made their way into the professional ranks, as C Ryan Cook, a second-round selection of the Minnesota Vikings, and T Terrance Pennington, a seventh-round pick of the Buffalo Bills, were both rookie starters in the NFL in 2006. Additionally, the 2006 draft saw G Robert Turner sign with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent, and, in 2005, G Claude Terrell was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round. 

Bostad spent two seasons at San Jose State (1997-98) as offensive line coach and was elevated to an offensive coordinator post his final year. Under his watch, T David Loverne was an All-Western Athletic Conference selection and went on to be drafted in the third round by the New York Jets and spend seven seasons in the NFL. 

Bostad coached the offensive line at Cal State Northridge in 1995-96 and spent three seasons as an offensive line graduate assistant at Minnesota (1992-94) under head coach Jim Wacker. 

Bostad began his career at his alma mater, UW-Stevens Point, coaching the offensive line from 1990-91. Bostad graduated from UW-Stevens Point in 1989, where he was a four-year starter as a linebacker. 

Born September 7, 1966 in Pardeeville, Wisconsin, Bostad and his wife Cara have four children: Rachel, Bryn, Annika and John.

BOSTAD AT A GLANCE