Dan Spittal - Player Personnel Assistant - Football Support Staff

Dan Spittal

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Player Personnel Assistant

A long-time fixture in New Jersey’s football scene, Dan Spittal is in his fourth year with Rutgers football as a player personnel analyst. Spittal served as the Scarlet Knights’ director of player personnel in 2019 and spent the previous two seasons within the program’s player development office.

Prior to his arrival “On the Banks” in 2016, Spittal served as the offensive coordinator and tight ends coach at TCNJ in 2015. Spittal mentored five all-conference selections on the offensive side of the ball.

Spittal arrived at TCNJ after a 13-year stint as the head coach at Eastern Camden County Regional High School in Voorhees, New Jersey, from 2000-13. Under the leadership of Spittal, the Vikings made playoffs eight times, which included four quarterfinal appearances in 2004, 20006, 2008, 2009; semifinal appearances in 2007 and 2012; finalist in 2013 and a state title in 2003. Among the players Spittal coached at Eastern was Logan Ryan, a standout defensive back at Rutgers and current starter for the Tennessee Titans as well as Eli Apple, current starter with the New Orleans Saints.

Prior to his head coaching stint, Spittal was the offensive coordinator at Eastern from 1992-99 and Pemberton Township High School from 1985-1991.

While an assistant, he coached two eventual NFL first round draft picks - Irv Smith of the New Orleans Saints and Chris Canty of the New England Patriots. Spittal also coached 2000 Eastern High School graduate Adam Taliaferro, whose book, A Miracle in the Making, recorded his amazing comeback from a spinal cord injury during his freshman season at Penn State.

Spittal played collegiately at Lock Haven and was a quarterback for the Bald Eagles, leading the team to its only Pennsylvania Conference title in 1979 during his all-conference senior season.

Spittal graduated from Lock Haven in 1980 with his bachelor’s degree and is a member of the school’s football hall of fame. Spittal also earned a master’s degree from Temple, where he was a graduate assistant from 1983-85 under current Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians.

Spittal and his wife, Ann Westhoven, live in Haddon Heights. Spittal also has two children, Matthew and Meghan.