Thad Bogardus, who spent 2011-12 as a football operations graduate assistant, served as the defensive graduate assistant in 2012-13.

Bogardus is a 2011 graduate of Elon University, where he served as a student assistant in 2009 and 2010. He also spent from 2007-10 as the assistant video coordinator, while earning his undergraduate degree in finance. Bogardus also served as an accounting intern at D.L. Ryan Companies in Connecticut in the summer of 2010.