[2] Bell spent the spring of 2007 at Louisiana–Lafayette as a graduate assistant before moving on to the University of Memphis for the fall season under Tommy West.
[7] In 2009, Bell and Paschall were reunited for a year at Oklahoma State, where both served as quality control coaches on Mike Gundy's staff.
Fedora left Southern Miss at the end of the season to become the head coach at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and took a number of assistants with him, including Anderson and Bell.
One tight end he coached was future National Football League first-round draft pick Eric Ebron.
[9] Paschall, most recently a graduate assistant at Ole Miss, also joined the staff as a GA.[4] After the 2013 season, Blake Anderson accepted the head coaching job at Arkansas State University.
[9][10] After two years at Maryland, Bell moved on to Florida State University, joining new head coach Willie Taggart's staff as offensive coordinator.
[3] Following a single season at Florida State, Bell departed to become a head coach for the first time, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.