Matt Viator has capped off his coaching staff with a pair of familiar faces.

Monday, Viator, who returns as head football coach at McNeese State after a nine-year absence, announced the final two staff members.

After keeping a good percentage of the previous group, Viator selected a couple of his former Cowboy players to complete his hiring.

Viator picked former McNeese quarterback Tyler Bolfing from Kansas as his offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach and Terence Cahee, the head coach at Wossman High School, to work with linebackers.

Bolfing spent last season as the Jayhawks offensive analyst, while Cahlee was the top guy at Wossman over the previous three seasons. Both are graduates of McNeese and also began their coaching careers under Viator.

Cahlee will also serve as the assistant special teams coach.

“I wanted to go coach in college, but then I got here, and it was like, ‘Man, I’m OK,” Cahee told the Quachita Citizen. “I ended up going back and forth with (Viator), and we’ve been to war and we’ve been to war together. He understands who I am and what I bring to the table.” 

Before Wossman, Cahee was the defensive coordinator at Lake Charles College Prep for four seasons.

Cahee played safety for Viator from 2009-12, spending the last season as Bolfing’s teammate. As a player for the Cowboys, he was a two-time All-Southland Conference defensive back, earned All-American honors in 2012, and was named the McNeese MVP in 2012.

He was the quality control coach for defense at McNeese in 2015.

Bolfing played for Viator at McNeese from 2012-14 and began his coaching career as a student assistant the following season. In 2015, he was part of the staff that led McNeese to a 10-0 regular season and its last Southland Conference championship.

Bolfing posted on social media, “Fired up for the opportunity to join Coach Viator’s staff!  McNeese is a SPECIAL university in a big time city! We’re coming home!”

Bolfing worked as a graduate assistant under Viator at Louisiana-Monroe from 2016-17, working mainly with quarterbacks and receivers. He then returned to McNeese in 2018, coaching the tight ends. 

He returned to Monroe for two seasons, first coaching tight ends and special teams in 2019 and then quarterbacks the following year. He spent three years at Baylor as a quality control coach on offense before going to Kansas last January. 

Bolfing holds degrees from McNeese State (2015) and ULM (2017). He is married to the former Lakeyn Fontenot, a three-year letter winner in softball at McNeese from 2013-15.

McNeese Football Coach Staff:

Head Coach: Matt Viator

Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks: Tyler Bolfing

Co-Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line: Kyle Segler

Running Backs: Thomas Reese

Wide Receivers: Michael Smith

Tight Ends: Mason Martin

Offensive Analyst: Kiefer Price

Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers: Tony Pecoraro

Co-Defensive Coordinator/Safeties: Josh Brown

Defensive Line: Chris Gistorb

Cornerbacks: Jordan Lee

Linebackers: Terence Cahee

Defensive Analyst: Chris St. John

Director of Equipment Operations: Matt Saucier

Director of Football Technology: Raymond Donovan