Dave Patenaude

Dave Patenaude is in his first season as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Old Dominion.

A 30-year coaching veteran, Patenaude spent the previous three seasons as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Georgia Tech. Patenaude transformed the Georgia Tech offense that ran the triple option before he was hired into a spread offense. In 2020, Patenaude started three true freshmen on offense, including at quarterback, and saw an improvement of more than 100 yards per game in total offense from the previous season. Also in 2020, the offense had four-straight 400-yards games of total offense to begin the year for the first time since 2011.
 
Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Patenaude was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Temple from 2017-18. In his two years at Temple, the Owls had two of its top three single-season passing totals in school history and were the 23^rd ranked scoring offense in the country in 2018. 
 
Patenaude spent five seasons at Coastal Carolina as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, helping lead the Chanticleers to four playoff appearances in five years, including a trio of 10-win seasons.
 
Patenaude began his coaching career in 1991 as running backs coach at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and has coached at Springfield (1992-93), Fordham (1994-97), Columbia (1998-2001), New Haven (2002-03), Holy Cross (2004-06), Hofstra (2007-09) and Georgetown (2010-11). Patenaude was the head coach at New Haven for two years before spending three seasons at Holy Cross coaching the running backs, wide receivers and as special teams coordinator. He and Rahne coached together at Holy Cross in 2004.

Patenaude and his wife, Christine, have two daughters, Eva and Estelle.