A well-traveled coach is heading home.

Corey Batoon, a Saint Louis School graduate, has been named the University of Hawaii football team’s defensive coordinator.

Batoon succeeds Legi Suiaunoa, who resigned as defensive coordinator two weeks ago to become Oregon State’s defensive line coach. Batoon will be the Rainbow Warriors’ seventh defensive coordinator since 2013, following Suiaunoa (2017), Kevin Lempa (2016), Abraham Elimimian (one game in 2015), Tom Mason (12 games in 2015), Kevin Klune (2014) and Thom Kaumeyer (2012-13).

Batoon was Florida Atlantic’s co-defensive coordinator, safeties coach and special teams coordinator this past season. The Owls went 11-3, winning the Conference USA title and beating Akron in the Boca Raton Bowl. Batoon’s 26-year coaching career included a stint at Mississippi, where he served as safeties coach, special teams coordinator, and recruiting coordinator.

UH coach Nick Rolovich said he has known about Batoon for about 10 years. “I got to know him better when I was at Nevada with (offensive-line coach) Darren Hiller,” Rolovich said. “He and Darren were very close.”

More than 10 coaches applied for the job. Rolovich praised Batoon’s diligence in coaching and recruiting.

“The one thing that came up consistently was (Batoon’s) a great evaluator of talent,” Rolovich said. “I think he’s efficient. He knows he has a job to do and he tries to do it the best he can. This is an opportunity he’s been waiting for. He’s a good ball coach. Guys talk schematically (and) he’s got answers, and I think that’s good.”

Rolovich said Batoon has a background in multiple fronts. The past season, the Warriors rotated between odd and even fronts.

Rolovich said Batoon will start working at UH “sometime next week.”

The Warriors have four vacancies remaining on the coaching staff. Offensive line coach Chris Naeole resigned in October, receivers coach Kefense Hynson accepted a job at Oregon State, and linebackers coach Sean Duggan will not return to the team in 2018. The NCAA also has approved FBS teams adding a 10th assistant coach in January.

UH might hire an assistant coach as early as next week, with the rest of the hires coming after the Jan. 7-10 American Football Coaches Association’s 2018 convention.