INDIANAPOLIS – Butler football head coach Mike Uremovich has promoted defensive line coach Adam Siwicki to defensive coordinator for the 2024 season. Siwicki joined the Bulldogs in January of 2022 and was named recruiting coordinator at Butler prior to the start of the 2023 season. Siwicki will replace Jeff Knowles who became the defensive coordinator at Ball State on January 4.
 
"Adam has been an extremely successful coordinator at two different stops before Butler," Uremovich explained. "I have no doubt this will continue as he leads our defense."
 
The Bulldogs have recorded 15 sacks in each of the last two seasons with Siwicki overseeing the defensive line unit. Disrupting opposing offenses at the line of scrimmage was critical for a Bulldog defense that nearly led all FCS programs in red zone defense this year. Butler finished the 2023 campaign ranked seventh in the FCS in scoring defense (17.5) and 22nd in total defense. Siwicki's group in particular had 59 tackles for loss in 2023 and 51 in 2022.
 
"The student-athletes know him and his work ethic," Uremovich added. "This will be a seamless transition as we head into spring practice."
 
Prior to Butler, Siwicki spent five seasons at Culver-Stockton, a NAIA program located in Canton, Missouri. He worked as the team's defensive coordinator and was promoted to associate head coach in 2019 while still overseeing the Wildcat defense and working as the linebacker coach.
 
In 2019, the Wildcats ranked fifth in passing defense and ninth in total defense among all NAIA teams. In addition, Siwicki orchestrated a defense that finished 11th in the NAIA in total sacks (34) and 18th in scoring defense (19.1 ppg).
 
Before working at Culver-Stockton, Siwicki spent two seasons at Northern Illinois as a defensive graduate assistant working with defensive linemen. He also worked at the University of Saint Francis for two years. While at USF, Siwicki served as the defensive coordinator in 2014 after coaching safeties in 2013. Saint Francis finished seventh in the NAIA in total yardage allowed when Siwicki took over as DC. His first coaching job after graduation came at Montana Tech in 2012.
 
Siwicki earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Aurora University in 2012 and a master's degree in adult and higher education from Northern Illinois in 2016. He was a Second Team All-Northern Athletics Conference selection as a linebacker at Aurora and earned the Richard Rickey Award that recognizes the male senior athlete who best demonstrates leadership on and off the field as well as athletic performance.
 
Adam and his wife Megan have two children; Blake and Noah.