Duane Price
	Position: Outside Linebackers Birthdate: 09/05/1975 Alma Mater: Texas Tech, 1999

Duane Price will open his third overall year on the East Carolina staff, but will begin his second as the program's outside linebackers coach in 2011.

After joining the Ruffin McNeill's staff as defensive tackles coach on July 30, 2010 - just a week prior to the start of fall camp - Price worked alongside then-ends coach Marc Yellock to start a major rebuilding process on a line that lost all four starters, including two who were selected in the NFL Draft.

McNeill's decision to change defensive schemes from a 4-3 to a 3-4 facilitated Price's move to the outside linebacking position before the start of spring drills in March, 2011.

However, while directing the unit's tackles in 2010, he helped Josh Smith garner All-Conference USA honors after topping the squad with 11.0 tackles for lost yardage. In addition, highly-regarded sophomore Michael Brooks was on track for a honors-winning campaign with 29 stops in only seven games before being lost to a season-ending injury.

During his first year directing the OLBs, Price tutored Cliff Perryman and Marke Powell to 48 and 40-tackle campaigns, the eighth and ninth-best marks on the team, respectively. His unit also played a key role in a defensive turnaround that featured a 102.5 yards-per-game improvement from the previous season.

Prior to his appointment at ECU, the Texas Tech letterman and former staff assistant helped the Red Raiders to four bowl appearances as a player and coach during a six-year span which began in 1994 when he arrived on the Lubbock campus as a defensive back.

Before being retained by newly-hired coach Tommy Tuberville and handling the secondary during 2010 spring drills, Price contributed to then-coordinator McNeill's efforts in 2009 while working with tackles as a defensive graduate assistant.

In addition to his on-the-field coaching duties, Price was also responsible for breaking down game film and preparing the scout team for weekly drills that ultimately helped result in a Valero Alamo Bowl victory over Michigan State.

He returned to his alma mater in March, 2009 after serving as a defensive and special teams staff assistant at Conference USA member Tulane during the 2008 campaign. Before his stay in New Orleans, Price spent six seasons as an assistant football coach at A&M Consolidated High School in College Station, Texas, where he helped lead the team to a pair of state quarterfinal campaigns in 2002 and 2005.

Price, 36, was a four-year letterwinner at Texas Tech in both football and baseball.

On the gridiron, Price was a member of the secondary during trips to the Cotton, Copper and Alamo Bowls, and helped the Red Raiders to a Southwest Conference title in 1994. He starred as a centerfielder for Tech during the spring and was a 20th-round selection of the Cincinnati Reds in 1998 before spending two years in their minor league system.

A native of College Station, Price earned a bachelor's of science degree in exercise and sport science from Texas Tech in 1999 and followed with a master's degree in interdisciplinary studies in 2003.

He and his wife, Becca, have one son, Chilton (9).