Former Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner will join the Stanford Cardinal coaching staff. Speaking to boosters and alumni at a recruiting reception, coach Jim Harbaugh made the announcement along with several other coaching moves within the Cardinal staff.

Turner was the Bears offensive coordinator for two stints, the first from 1993-1996, and most recently from 2005-2009. Turner played college football at Pacific and has extensive college coaching experience.

From Wikepedia:

Turner began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Pacific before earning his first full-time college job coaching running backs and receivers at Arizona University (1978-1980). He moved on to be an assistant at Northwestern University (1981-1982), University of Pittsburgh (1983-1984), University of Southern California (1985-1987), Texas A&M University(1988) and Stanford University (1989-1991) before earning his first head coaching job at San Jose State (1992). Turner was the head coach at San Jose State University for one season, in 1992, before being hired by Dave Wannstedt in the first of his two stints as the Bears offensive coordinator. In the interim, Turner spent eight years as head coach at the University of Illinois. His overall record at Illinois was 35 wins and 57 losses, for a winning percentage of .380 the highlight of his tenure was guiding the Illini to the 2001 Big Ten Conference Championship, (his only winning season in the Big Ten) and that season's Sugar Bowl with a 10-2 record, which Illinois lost to LSU. He was named unanimous 2001 Big Ten Coach of the Year presided over three of the top six offenses in Illini history in terms of total yards while four of his eight Illinois squads currently rank in the school's top 11 for scoring, including a school-record 390 points in 2001. Three of the top six all-time leading rushers at Illinois and three of the school's top 10 all-time leading receivers played during the Turner era. There were over 20 former Illini who played under Turner on NFL rosters at the end of the 2007 season.

However, Turner followed up the impressive season with three consecutive losing seasons, and was fired. Two of Turner's teams were winless in the Big Ten, going 0-8 in 1997 and again in 2003, and he is the only coach in the more than one hundred year history of Illinois football to lose eleven games in a season, which he also accomplished in those same two seasons. Ron Turner's offensive philosophy blends with elements of the Air Coryell system. Ron Turner coached at USC under Ted Tollner and Larry Smith from 1985 to 1987.

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Other changes have shuffled the Cardinal coaching staff. Here is the new lineup from what was said by coach Harbaugh.

RB/OC - David Shaw

WR/QB? - Ron Turner

OL - Tim Drevno

OL/TE - Greg Roman (Associate Head Coach)

DL - Randy Hart

OLB - Lance Anderson

ILB/DC - Vic Fangio

DB - TBA

ST/DB - Brian Polian

Chester McGlockton - volunteer coach

Director of Player Development - Ron Lynn (non-coaching position)

We will have more on this as we learn it.

Stanford spring practice is scheduled to begin March 1, with the Spring Game set for April 17.

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