Illinois assistant Dana Dimel, longtime college coach, dies

(Photo credit: GABY VELASQUEZ/ EL PASO TIMES / USA TODAY NETWORK)Dana Dimel, an assistant coach at Illinois and formerly the head coach at Wyoming, Houston and UTEP, died Tuesday morning, his family announced. He was 62.

Dimel's agent, Pete Roussel, said on social media that Dimel passed away in his sleep.

The coach spent this season as a senior offensive assistant on Bret Bielema's staff at Illinois. He also was a lon