Dolphins Coach
Name: Steve Bush
Title: Offensive Quality Control
College: Southern Connecticut State
NFL: First Season
Dolphins: First Season


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Steve Bush was added to the Dolphins’ coaching staff on January 28, 2008 as he embarks on his first NFL venture following a 26-year run as a coach at both the high school and collegiate levels.

From 2000-04, Bush served on a Syracuse staff headed up by Dolphins defensive coordinator Paul Pasqualoni, when he was the school’s defensive backs coach (2000) and quarterbacks coach (2001-04). In that 2000 season, Bush coached cornerback Will Allen, a first-team All-Big East selection that year who went on to become a first-round draft choice of the Giants in 2001 and is currently with the Dolphins. Most recently, Bush was the head coach at West Genesee (N.Y.) High School for the past three years (2005-07), and in 2007 he guided the school to a record of 11-2 and its first New York State Class AA state title.

Bush got his start in the coaching profession as a graduate assistant at Southern Connecticut State, where he served from 1982-83. He moved on to Springfield College where he was the school’s defensive coordinator/secondary coach from 1984-85. That was followed by stints as defensive coordinator/linebackers coach at the University of New Haven from 1986-87 and defensive coordinator/secondary coach at Boston University from 1988-89. During the ’86 campaign he worked alongside Dolphins Head Coach Tony Sparano, also a member of that staff. The pair also served together at BU from 1988-89. Bush moved on as a head coach at the high school ranks, first at Longmeadow (Mass.) High from 1990-92 and then at Manalapan (N.J.) High from 1993-99.

Bush was a defensive back at Southern Connecticut State (1978-81), where he earned both his undergraduate and master’s degrees. He and his wife, Maria, have two daughters, Kacey and Leah, and two sons, Kevin and Shane.


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