In 2018, he retired as the head football coach at the University of Indianapolis (UIndy), a position he had held since 2010.
[1][2] Bartolomeo grew up in northwest Indiana and graduated in 1973 from Andrean High School in Merrillville.
The Bulldogs won the Indiana Collegiate Conference football championship in each of his four years on the team.
For most of this period, he served under former Butler teammate Lynch, who was head coach of the Cardinals from 1995 through 2002.
Following Lynch’s dismissal as Ball State head coach, Bartolomeo spent the 2003 season as defensive coordinator at Central Michigan.