Football
- Title:
- Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Tackles
Nick Goeser joined the North Dakota State University football staff as defensive tackles coach in 2010. He was named defensive line coach in 2022, coached the defensive ends in 2023, and was elevated to co-defensive coordinator and defensive tackles coach in 2024 under head coach Tim Polasek.
The longest tenured coach on the Bison football staff, Goeser has spent time as a recruiting coordinator, special teams coordinator and pro scout liaison while coaching on 15 straight NCAA playoff teams at North Dakota State, winning 10 FCS national championships and 11 Missouri Valley Football Conference titles.
The Bison led the nation in scoring defense three straight years from 2011 to 2013 and have consistently been among the top five in FCS including No. 1 again in 2019 and 2021.
Goeser has coached four All-Americans at NDSU, including defensive tackles Matthew Gratzek in 2010, Ryan Drevlow in 2013 and Eli Mostaert in 2024, and defensive end Spencer Waege in 2022, who was a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award. He has coached four other All-Missouri Valley Football Conference performers in Leevon Perry, Nate Tanguay, Aaron Steidl and Dylan Hendricks.
Goeser came to Fargo from the successful Minnesota-Duluth program, where he was the defensive line and outside linebackers coach from 2007 to 2009. UMD went 15-0 and won the 2008 NCAA Division II national championship.
He served as an assistant coach in charge of the defensive ends at Augustana College (Ill.) in 2005 and 2006. The Vikings won two College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) championships and made one NCAA Division III playoff appearance.
In 2003 and 2004, Goeser was a member of the Marietta College (Ohio) football staff as a defensive line coach. He helped rebuild a Pioneer team which had gone 2-8 in his debut season to a 6-4 club the following fall.
A native of Scandinavia, Wis., Goeser played his college ball at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he was a four-year starting defensive lineman and a 2002 all-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honoree. He played an integral part in helping the Blugolds post back-to-back 8-2 seasons during his final two years in Eau Claire and claiming the 2001 WIAC title. He captained the team as a senior.
A three-sport standout (football, basketball, and baseball) at Iola-Scandinavia High School, Goeser received his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2003 and his master’s degree in education from Marietta College two years later.
He and his wife, Vicky, are the parents of two sons, Jaxon and Brady.
| Nick Goeser Year-by-Year Coaching History | ||
| Year | School | Position |
| 2003 | Marietta (Ohio) | Defensive Line |
| 2004 | Marietta (Ohio) | Defensive Line |
| 2005 | Augustana (Ill.) | Defensive Ends |
| 2006 | Augustana (Ill.) | Defensive Ends |
| 2007 | Minnesota-Duluth | Defensive Line/Outside Linebackers |
| 2008 | Minnesota-Duluth | Defensive Line/Outside Linebackers |
| 2009 | Minnesota-Duluth | Defensive Line/Outside Linebackers |
| 2010 | North Dakota State | Defensive Tackles |
| 2011 | North Dakota State | Defensive Tackles |
| 2012 | North Dakota State | Defensive Tackles |
| 2013 | North Dakota State | Defensive Tackles |
| 2014 | North Dakota State | Defensive Tackles/Recruiting Coordinator |
| 2015 | North Dakota State | Defensive Tackles/Recruiting Coordinator |
| 2016 | North Dakota State | Defensive Tackles |
| 2017 | North Dakota State | Defensive Tackles |
| 2018 | North Dakota State | Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Tackles |
| 2019 | North Dakota State | Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Tackles |
| 2020-21 | North Dakota State | Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Tackles |
| 2021 | North Dakota State | Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Tackles |
| 2022 | North Dakota State | Defensive Line |
| 2023 | North Dakota State | Defensive Line |
| 2024 | North Dakota State | Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Tackles |
