Could Everett’s Jonathan DiBiaso be coming back to Boston College?

By Joe McConnell

Former Everett High School (EHS) Super Bowl-winning quarterback Jonathan DiBiaso has been on the Vanderbilt University coaching staff since February 2021, where he has served as an offensive analyst. Previously, he was a graduate assistant at Boston College for three years.

While with the Eagles, DiBiaso assisted the offensive staff in film breakdown, practice preparation and all game plan and scouting report materials. He also worked with the team’s offensive coordinators and quarterbacks.

It’s rumored that the Everett native just might be returning to the Heights as the football team’s new quarterbacks coach, which will help fill out new head coach Bill O’Brien’s staff.

According to BC’s Director of Football Communications Brendan Flynn, the announcement could be made soon. Flynn told The Advocate on Tuesday (Feb. 27) that he “hopes (the announcement) will go out this week.”

Before his first incarnation at Boston College, Jonathan was an assistant football coach at Catholic Memorial School in 2017, where his dad – the legendary John DiBiaso – is the school’s head coach. Prior to that, he was a part-time intern with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 2015-2017 training camps.

DiBiaso was a Dartmouth College quarterback from 2013-15 before transferring to Tufts to complete his undergraduate career. He earned a bachelor’s degree in child development there in 2018, before receiving his master’s in sports administration from Boston College in 2020.

Jonathan was of course a standout quarterback at EHS – a position his dad played with proficiency in the 1970s, when his grandfather was the Tide’s head coach – after leading two Huskie Pop Warner squads to the national championship game at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.

Among his accomplishments on the Crimson Tide campus, the lefty signal caller was a two-time All-Scholastic. During his high school career, he threw for 103 touchdown passes, which set a new standard for excellence in the state. He also holds the single-season state record for passing touchdowns with 44 that he accomplished in 2011, his senior year. He broke his own record of 43 that he established as a junior.

During his junior and senior campaigns (2010-2011), he helped guide those clubs to 25 straight wins and back-to-back Super Bowl titles. He was chosen the Massachusetts Gatorade Football Player of the Year after his senior season.