| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Quarterbacks coach |
| Team | Syracuse |
| Conference | ACC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Fair Lawn, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Montclair State University (1999) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2000–2009 | Don Bosco Prep (NJ) (OC) |
| 2010–2017 | Bergen Catholic HS (NJ) |
| 2018 | Rutgers (RB) |
| 2019 | Rutgers (TE / interim HC / OC) |
| 2020–2022 | Rutgers (TE) |
| 2022 | Rutgers (interim OC / QB) |
| 2023 | Syracuse (TE / interim HC) |
| 2024–present | Syracuse (QB) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 2–8 (college) 60–28 (high school) |
| Bowls | 0–1 |
Nunzio Campanile is an American football coach. He is currently the quarterbacks coach at Syracuse University.[1] Campanile served as the interim head coach at Rutgers University for the final eight games of the 2019 season. He was elevated to that position from that of tight ends coach after the firing of head coach Chris Ash and offensive coordinator John McNulty.[2]
Campanile spent the eight years as the head coach at Bergen Catholic, including winning a state title in 2017 against St. Peter's Preparatory School in a 44–7 win, after working as offensive coordinator at Don Bosco Prep from 2000 to 2009.[1]
In 2018 Nunzio joined the Rutgers staff after leaving high school football, and is the team's tight ends coach.[1] The following year he began the season as the team's tight ends coach, however he also served as the interim head coach[3] and offensive coordinator for the final eight games of the 2019 season. In 2020 with the hiring of Greg Schiano, Nunzio was the only holdover from the previous staff and returned to be the team's tight ends coach.[4] On October 9, 2022, following the dismissal of Sean Gleeson, Scarlet Knights' offensive coordinator, Nunzio was named interim offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.[5]
In January 2023, he was hired as Tight Ends coach at Syracuse University.[6] After head coach Dino Babers was fired on November 19, 2023, Campanile was named the interim head coach for the remainder of the 2023 season.[7]
Campanile grew up in New Jersey in an Italian-American family full of football coaches. Growing up he watched his father, Mike, coach at Paramus Catholic High School in New Jersey for 10 years. Mike and his brother Vito coach at Bergen Catholic High School. Anthony is a part of the Miami Dolphins coaching staff while his other brother Nicky, is a coach at DePaul High School.[8]
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers Scarlet Knights (Big Ten Conference) (2019) | |||||||||
| 2019 | Rutgers | 1–7 | 0–7 | 7th (East) | |||||
| Rutgers: | 1–7 | 0–7 | |||||||
| Syracuse Orange (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2023) | |||||||||
| 2023 | Syracuse | 1–1[a] | 1–0 | T–11th | L Boca Raton | ||||
| Syracuse: | 1–1 | 1–0 | |||||||
| Total: | 2–8 | ||||||||