IUP head coach Curt Cignetti has announced the addition of Rod Rutherford and Luke Getsy to the football coaching staff. Rutherford will coach wide receivers and Getsy will coach quarterbacks for the Crimson Hawks.

Rutherford and Getsy both played quarterback at the University of Pittsburgh, and Getsy later transferred to Akron. Both enjoyed brief stints in the NFL – Getsy with the San Francisco 49ers and Rutherford with the Carolina Panthers and Pittsburgh Steelers.

“I am extremely excited that Luke Getsy and Rod Rutherford have decided to join our program,” Cignetti said. “They have both developed a tremendous reputation in the western Pennsylvania area, and I'm confident they will do an outstanding job for IUP.”

Rutherford spent the last two seasons as a graduate assistant at Pitt. He worked with both the linebackers and receivers and was part of a Pitt team that won 10 games for the first time since 1981. Rutherford also recruited the Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virginia areas.

Prior to his time at Pitt, Rutherford spent one year as the defensive backs and special teams coach at St. Vincent College. He was also a volunteer quarterback coach at Pitt during the 2007 season.

Rutherford was a member of the practice squad for the 2005 Super Bowl champion Steelers and spent the previous season with Carolina Panthers. Rutherford was also a member of the Hamburg Sea Devils team that won the 2007 World Bowl Championship in NFL Europe.

Rutherford was a two-year starter and four-year letterman at Pitt. In a stellar 2003 season, Rutherford passed for a school-record 3,679 yards and tied Dan Marino's school record for touchdowns with 37.

He was named first team All-Big East and a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien award for the nation's best quarterback. In his career with the Panthers, he passed for 6,724 yards and accounted for 7,609 yards of total offense to rank fourth in school history in both categories.

Rutherford earned a bachelor's degree in social sciences from Pitt in 2004 and is currently working towards his master's degree in education.

Getsy spent the 2009 season as the offensive coordinator at West Virginia Wesleyan, and the team ranked in the top three in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in several offensive categories. His recruiting areas included central and western Pennsylvania.

Most recently Getsy worked with the quarterbacks as a graduate assistant at Pitt. He was a graduate assistant at Akron for the 2007 and 2008 campaigns and assisted in coaching quarterbacks and wide receivers.

Getsy played two seasons at Akron and ranks third on the all-time passing yards list with 6,117. In 2005 he passed for 3,445 and a school-record 23 touchdowns. Getsy led Akron to its first-ever Mid-America Conference title, and he was named the MVP of the Zips' win in the conference championship game.

He set a Motor City Bowl record with 455 passing yards and threw four touchdown passes in a loss to Memphis. Getsy led the MAC in passing yards per game in both of his seasons at Akron. He played in five games with one start in 2003 at Pitt before transferring to Akron.

Getsy was the starting quarterback in the North-South all-star game and signed as a free agent with the San Francisco 49ers before embarking on his coaching career.

He received his bachelor's degree in marketing management and sales management from Akron in 2007 and is currently in the master's program in sports science and coaching.