Honors & Accomplishments
• Mentored 10 All-Ivy League picks in first five seasons with the Big Red.
• More than a dozen years of experience as a coordinator (offensive, defensive, special teams and recruiting).
• Has coached in an FCS national championship game and three NCAA playoffs.
Recruiting Areas
• Minnesota, New York (Buffalo area), Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Coaching Experience
• Assistant Coach and Special Teams Coordinator, Cornell University (2014-present)
• Assistant Head Coach, Defensive Coordinator and Recruiting Coordinator, Alderson Broaddus College (2012-14)
• Offensive Coordinator, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2011)
• Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator, University of Massachusetts (2004-10)
• Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator, University of Rhode Island (2002-03)
• Defensive Coordinator and Special Teams Coordinator, St. Lawrence University (2001)
• Graduate Assistant Coach, Syracuse University (2000)
• Assistant Coach, Western Connecticut State University (1999)
• Graduate Assistant Coach, California University (Pa.) (1998)
• Assistant Coach, Princeton University (1997)
• Assistant Coach, Maine Maritime Academy (1996)
• Student Assistant Coach, Central Connecticut State University (1996)
Playing Experience
• Central Connecticut State University (1993-97)
• Two-year starter at safety
Education
• B.S., Physical Education and Exercise Sciences, Central Connecticut State University (1997)
At Cornell
Guido Falbo has made a substantial impact in all three phases of the game since joining the Big Red staff in March of 2014. He continued to work with the team's linebackers in 2021. He previously served as the program’s running backs and tight ends coach for his first two seasons on East Hill and has coordinated special teams.
Falbo has coached a number of impact players for the Big Red, including helping make Luke Hagy one of the most feared running backs in the Ancient Eight. Hagy earned All-Ivy League honors his final two seasons and becoming the first player in Ivy history to surpass 2,000 rushing and 1,500 receiving yards in a career. Punter Chris Fraser set nearly every Cornell and Ivy League punting record and became just the third player in conference history to be named all-league first-team four times.
In his first season with the Big Red, the team nearly doubled its rushing total from the 2013 campaign and then boosted that total nearly 30 yards per game in 2015. The Big Red was also more efficient in the running game, boosting its yards per carry total nearly a full yard per game from 2014 to 2015.
He took over linebackers and special teams in 2016, and Cornell also made important strides in both areas. Despite losing senior captain Miles Norris (linebacker) in the preseason and sophomore place-kicker Zach Mays, a two-time Special Teams Player of the Week in the season’s first two weeks, both units ranked among the circuit’s best. Senior captain Jackson Weber was named All-Ivy and tutored breakout stars Reis Seggebruch, Ryan Kelley and Kurt Frimel. Fraser closed his career as the best punter in league history by helping Cornell pace the Ivy League in net punting, and freshman Nickolas Null seamlessly came in as the team’s place-kicker and kickoff man.
In 2017, Null was a second-team selection at place-kicker and an honorable mention pick as the punter, becoming the first Cornell player to earn multiple spots on the All-Ivy team since 2011.He was a four-time Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week. Falbo also worked directly with Frimel, who was elected a defensive captain. The CoSIDA Academic All-District selection led the Big Red and ranked fourth in the Ivy League in tackles for loss (9.5).
Captain Reis Seggebruch earned All-Ivy honors in 2018, while first-year starter Lance Blass ranked among the leaders in tackles and tackles for loss. Four different linebackers had at least 40 tackles. Null was a weapon on special teams, leading the conference in punting and standing second in scoring before missing the team's final seven games due to injury.
The 2019 season saw Falbo lead three All-Ivy selections, including Null's second stint as an All-Ivy place-kicker and punter in the last three seasons. Null paced the Ivy in punting average during his senior season and kicked a game-winning field goal in the final seconds in the win over Brown. Freshman Jake Stebbins ranked second on the team in tackles, earned second-team all-conference honors and was a finalist for the Jerry Rice Award as the nation's top freshman in the FCS. The Big Red defense in the top 25 nationally in first downs defense (seventh, 115), third-down defense (11th, .321), red zone defense (15th, .719), rushing defense (18th, 121.9), scoring defense (19th, 20.7) and total defense (21st, 335.6).
Prior to Cornell
Falbo has coached at some of the top academic schools in the Northeast and at every level of college football during his nearly two decades on the sidelines.
Before arriving at Cornell, Falbo spent the previous two seasons as assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator at Alderson Broaddus, helping start the Division II program under head coach Dennis Creehan. In the program’s first season, Falbo’s helped the team to a 9-2 record. In 2013, Falbo was named the team’s defensive coordinator. His unit recorded 26 takeaways and 21 sacks as part of a 4-7 campaign. The team was invited to compete in the inaugural ECAC Futures Bowl against the Florida Institute of Technology.Prior to helping build a program from scratch at Alderson
Broaddus, Falbo spent time at RPI (2011), UMass (2004-10), Rhode Island (2002-03), St. Lawrence (2001), Syracuse (2000) and Western Connecticut (1999), as well as stops at California (Pa.), Princeton and Maine Maritime Academy.
At RPI, Falbo served as offensive coordinator in 2001, helping mentor the league’s offensive player of the year and coaching 11 players that earned all-league accolades.
Falbo spent seven seasons at UMass, including four as recruiting coordinator. He coached the offensive line, running backs and tight ends during his time there, including working with three NFL signees as well as Walter Payton Award candidate Tony Nelson. Falbo earned guest coaching opportunities with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. The 2006 team went to the FCS national championship game and finished the season 13-2, while the 2007 squad won 10 games and advanced to the second round of the playoffs.
While at Rhode Island, he coached wide receivers and spent his final season as recruiting coordinator. He spent 2001 as the defensive coordinator, special teams coordinator and head strength and conditioning coach at St. Lawrence.
Falbo was a graduate assistant at Syracuse in 2000, working with the offense. That was after a year at Western Connecticut where he helped the team to a 10-2 record, a conference title and the program’s second NCAA playoff berth while working with the linebackers.
He began his career with stints as a graduate assistant at California (Pa.) working with the secondary, which followed a year at Maine Maritime Academy as a secondary coach in his first season out of college, and a year at Princeton as outside linebackers coach.
Personal
Falbo and his wife, Stephanie, have three sons and reside in Ithaca. A 1997 graduate of Central Connecticut State, Falbo was a two-year starter at strong safety. He earned a degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science.
* Updated March 2021
