Dan Younis began working with the Etobicoke Eagles in the Ontario Varsity Football League in 2008 as an offensive line coach and became the offensive coordinator and assistant head coach beginning in the 2009 season. He also travelled to Hawaii in the summer of 2009, where he acted as an assistant head coach and defensive coordinator of the Elite Sports King Kamehameha tournament.
Dan was an offensive lineman for the Colonel By Cougars from 2001-05 and was named an all-city tackle and an East all-star in 2005. He played for the Varsity Blues offensive line in 2006 before he suffered a career-ending injury in 2007.