Ligashesky has coached for the
Jacksonville Jaguars (2004) and the
St. Louis Rams (2005–2006) of the
National Football League (NFL). Ligashesky was hired on January 29, 2007, as the
Pittsburgh Steelers special teams coach after
Kevin Spencer left to coach for the
Arizona Cardinals. He was hired when
Mike Tomlin became head coach after
Bill Cowher resigned early in 2007. He was released by the Steelers on January 7, 2010. Ligashesky coached for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012. The most notable incident of Ligasheky's tenure occurred in practice when Ligashesky, "walked onto the wrong area of the practice field during a drill" upon which head coach
Greg Schiano, "launched into a loud tirade and threatened to fire him." Ligashesky was fired at the end of the season. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as the
special teams coordinator for the
Houston Texans. He was released in January 2016 after a devastating loss to the
Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Wild-Card
playoff game. As a college football coach, Ligashesky has coached at the
University of Pittsburgh,
Bowling Green State University and
Kent State University. Ligashesky was also a graduate assistant at
Arizona State University and
Wake Forest University. On March 17, 2016, he was hired as the special teams coordinator and
tight end coach at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Following the staff's dismissal at Illinois, Ligashesky was hired by
Scot Loeffler to be the special teams coordinator at
Bowling Green in March 2021. Ligashesky was hired as
Syracuse's Special teams coordinator on December 9, 2021. ==References==