PITTSBURGH STEELERS Cowher completes the largest restructuring of coaching staff

Four new assistants have been hired, including Bruce Arians.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher completed the largest restructuring of his coaching staff in his 12 years on the job Thursday by hiring four new assistant coaches and promoting another coach.
Two of the new assistants have college head coaching experience -- former Temple coach Bruce Arians and Massachusetts coach Mark Whipple.
Arians, recently fired after three seasons as the Cleveland Browns' offensive coordinator, will coach the wide receivers and Whipple will be the quarterbacks coach.
Cowher also hired James Daniel, who spent the last seven seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, as his tight ends coach and former Lions assistant Ray Horton as the assistant defensive backs coach. Darren Perry, the former Steelers safety who held that job last season, was promoted to defensive backs coach.
Previous assignments
Previously, Cowher hired two new coordinators in Dick LeBeau, who returns to run the Steelers' defense, and Ken Whisenhunt, who was promoted from tight ends coach to offensive coordinator.
Offensive line coach Russ Grimm also added the title of assistant head coach after he was one of two finalists to become the Chicago Bears' head coach. Grimm is the first Steelers assistant to have that title under Cowher.
The reshuffling came only a couple of weeks after Cowher initially said he didn't plan any staff changes despite the Steelers' 6-10 season. That changed following his postseason meetings with his coaches, when he fired former defensive coordinator Tom Lewis and wide receivers coach Kenny Jackson.
Mike Mularkey then left after three seasons as the offensive coordinator to become the Buffalo Bills' coach, taking quarterbacks coach Tom Clements with him as the Bills' new offensive coordinator. Also, defensive backs coach Willy Robinson was hired as the San Francisco 49ers' defensive coordinator.
Arians experienced
Of the Steelers' new assistants, Arians is the most experienced. He has been an NFL assistant coach for 11 years and was Temple's head coach from 1983-88. Arians had two winning seasons with Temple -- 6-5 records in 1984 and 1986 -- at a school that has had only one winning season in the 15 years since he left.
Whipple departed UMass amid uncertainty whether the school will make the move up from Division I-AA to Division I-A, as Connecticut recently did, or will decrease emphasis on the sport. UMass was 49-26 with five winning seasons during his six seasons there, winning the NCAA Division I-AA championship in 1998 and making the playoffs last season before losing to Colgate in the first round.
Whipple had a 121-59 record in 16 seasons as coach at New Haven, Brown and Massachusetts. He is a former Brown University quarterback.
Fair signed
The Steelers signed Terry Fair, a first-round draft pick and former Detroit Lions starting cornerback, to a $535,000, one-year contract Thursday.
Fair, also a kick returner, adds depth at one of the Steelers' weakest positions. He started 48 of 52 games with Detroit from 1998-2001, but was cut before the 2002 season and signed with Carolina.
Fair, 27, played only three games with the Panthers before going on the injured reserve list. He sat out last season.