Huge Setback: After Quarreling With the Head Coach, UConn Huskies football key player Departed From the Team..

up till 2022. He was named the Heart of America Head Coach of the Year after leading the club to a 9-3 record and a No. 14 national ranking in his debut season. After leading the squad to a 7-1 record and a No. 7 national ranking in 2020, he was rewarded with the accolade once more.

He became the defensive coordinator for Baker in 2009 and remained in that position until 2018, during which time he was honored with four Heart of America Assistant Coach of the Year Awards.

Thoren played linebacker for the University of Kansas from 1999 to 1999, when he graduated, finishing in the top 20 for career tackles (306) during his time there. He graduated with a degree in sports science, coaching concentration.

Before starting his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Minnesota in 2001, where he coached the offensive line for two seasons and obtained a master’s degree in education with a focus in sports management, he played for the Berlin Thunder in the NFL Europe. He then signed with the Kansas City Chiefs as a free agent.