Technically speaking, Dana Holgorsen has no room — and no need? — for a tight ends coach. Have a look yourself. But on that list of graduate assistants, and in the spirit of busy Mike Burchett, is a tight ends coach. He’s Dan Gerberry, a former all-conference player at Ball State and five-year pro in the NFL. He was a center then and now is in the middle of a room handling the team’s tight ends all by himself.

The twist here, though, is that a year ago he was a full-time assistant coach in charge of the tight ends at Youngstown State. Things went sideways and the Penguins cleaned house, leaving Gerberry, married not yet one year, figuring out his life and his career on the fly.

“You know what you’re getting into with this career,” Gerberry said. “It is what it is. The best coaches in the world get fired, and if you haven’t been fired, you haven’t been coaching long enough. I’ve been fortunate. I caught a bad break, but at the same time I’ve caught good breaks, too.”

Gerberry married in February 2014. Less than a year later, he and wife Jaclyn’s immediate future was as uncertain as the bouquet toss.

“There were a lot of nights with long conversations. ‘What are my options? What are we going to do? What’s best for us?,’ ” Gerberry said.

He found some possibilities and some found him. He said he never closed the door on any opportunity that would keep him in football and on his career path, but there were times when he and his wife would ask one another what was worthwhile.

“Every coach has to have that talk,” Gerberry said. “There’s a possibility that even great coaches will lose their jobs and not have another offer, so whether it’s a tiny thing you have to think about, whether it’s you can’t move your family for a job offer or the offer just isn’t really feasible, you have to at some point in your career sit down and look at your backup plan.

“Then the West Virginia offer came on the table, and it was a no-brainer. I would have been foolish to pass it up.”