Chizik's Coaching Staff - Where Are They Now

[cyclone13]

Almost 10 years ago that Chizik left Ames for Auburn so I happened to wonder what happened with his coaching staff. Here's what I find, just for fun.It seems that Becton, Rodgers and Boulware have a nice career trajectory after leaving Ames.

1. Shane Beatty – Asst Director of Football Ops

2013-16: HC Okanagan Sun (CJFL); since 2016: AHC, S&C, Director of Player Development Westshore Rebels (Canada)

2. Torre Becton – Assistant S&C

2009: S&C Assistant Houston Texans; 2010: Director of S&C South Carolina State; 2011:-15 AHC S&C Washington; 2016: AHC S&C USC; since 2017: S&C: California

3. Wayne Bolt – DC – went to Auburn with Chizik, DC at Troy since 2013

4. Thomas Howe – GA/Offense

2010: DL/LB Minnesota Duluth; 2011: DL Missouri Southern; 2012-13: LB/Special teams coord Central Oklahoma; since 2014: DE/DL/Co-Special Teams Coord Stephen F. Austin

5. Erik Link – Asst Director of Football Ops

Went with Chizik to Auburn as Special teams Quality Control, 2011-12: Special Teams Coord/TE Coach Montana State, 2013-15: Offensive analyst Auburn; 2011, 2016-17: HC - Roosevelt HS Des Moines, 2018: Special Team Coord Louisiana Tech

6. Robert McFarland – OC

didn’t coach again until 2010 with Florida Tuskers (UFL team), 2011: OL Sacramento Mountain Lions (UFL); 2012-14: OC/OL Copiah Lincoln CC, since 2015: OL Louisianna Tech

7. Tony Petersen OC/Passing Game Coord

2009: AHC/WR South Dakota, 2010-12: AHC/Co-OC/QB Marshall, 2013-15: OC/QB Louisiana Tech, since 2015: OC/QB East Carolina

8. Shawn Raney – CBs

2009: Oak Mountain HS; 2010-13 DC Hoover HS (Alabama), since 2013: HC Spain park HS (Alabama)

9. Jay Rodgers – WR

2009-10: Coaches assistant Denver Broncos; 2010: Defensive QC Denver Broncos; 2012-14: DL Denver Broncos; since 2015: DL Chicago Bears

10. Gabe Rodriguez GA/Defense

Unknown

11. Ken Sheppard: Director of S&C

Unknown

12. Jay Boulware: RB/Special Teams

2009-12: ST/TE Auburn; since 2013: ST/RB Oklahoma. He actually got hired at Wisconsin in January 2013 and resigned 2 months later to join the Sooners

13. Barney Farrar: Associate for QC

Left in 2008 for TE Coach at Southern Mississippi; Rice; Clemson ; 2011-2016: Assistant AD for HS & JC relations Ole Miss; since Dec 17: Jones County JC

Interestingly he was blamed in the Ole Miss recruiting scandal and was hammered with 5-year show cause penalty.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...79f191668ed_story.html?utm_term=.94ad376e18b9


14. Scott Fountain: TE/Recruiting Coordinator

Followed Chizik to Auburn (stayed until 2016), 2017: Special Teams analyst Georgia; 2018: Miss. State

15. Jefff Koonz: Assistant Coach

2010-11: Louisiana Tech; 2014-16: Co-DC/LB Cincinnati; Since 2017: LB North Texas

16. Travis Pearson: Director of Player Personnel

2009-10: HC & AD – Jefferson Davis HS; 2011-12: DC Colquitt County HS; 2013: LB; 2014-15: DC; 2016-present: DC & Secondary Alabama A&M

17. Mike Pelton: Defensive Line

Went to Auburn with Chizik until Chizik was fired; 2013-17: DL Georgia Tech (fired after the season)

18. Ryan Belsher 2nd year: GA – QC (Offense)

Unknown – last was Co-OC/QB/WR/K/P Assistant Coach at U of Central Oklahoma

19. James Harris – GA S&C

Unknown

 

[ghettocowboy4cy]

The only thing good about this era was the OL IMO.

 

[Acylum]

The only thing good about this era was the OL IMO.

Weren’t the kick return teams pretty good also?

 

[cycloneG]

Weren’t the kick return teams pretty good also?

When you return as many kicks as they did, you're bound to break one.

Leonard Johnson has the record for kick return yardage in a single game with 319 yards. ISU lost 59-17.

 

[CyCrazy]

Wayne Bolt. Lol

 

[cyclone13]

Wayne Bolt. Lol

I think this one surprised me the most - I thought he was done after being canned by Chizik before he left and Chizik brought him to be director of football ops (or something similar to that). Now he can add beating the Huskers in his resume.

 

[CyCrazy]

When you return as many kicks as they did, you're bound to break one.

Leonard Johnson has the record for kick return yardage in a single game with 319 yards. ISU lost 59-17.

Thats awesome and sad in the same breath.

 

[mcblogerson]

Mcfarland brought an interesting offense.
Set up, look to the sideline, look back at the defense and get called for delay or false start. Call timeout and repeat. I dont know if thats entirely accurate but thats what it felt like.

 

[burn587]

Didn’t Chris Ash stay on as DB coach for a year? If so he had a really good career trajectory until he made the unthinkable decision to become the HC at Rutgers.

 

[cyclone13]

Didn’t Chris Ash stay on as DB coach for a year? If so he had a really good career trajectory until he made the unthinkable decision to become the HC at Rutgers.

I think he was at Rhoads era before going to Wisconsin

 

[burn587]

I think he was at Rhoads era before going to Wisconsin

I looked it up. He was on Mac’s staff and then accepted an offer from Chizik to stay on. He then moved on to San Diego State prior to the season. He then came back for the first year of Rhoads’ first season.

 

[ThatllDoCy]

To be honest, I would have liked to have kept MacFarland. Arnaud and the offense was showing some life at the end of the last year.

THerman’s offense at the time got us nowhere, as we did not have the personnel for it. After that, the offensive instability just ruined CPR’s tenure.

 

[ThatllDoCy]

Mcfarland brought an interesting offense.
Set up, look to the sideline, look back at the defense and get called for delay or false start. Call timeout and repeat. I dont know if thats entirely accurate but thats what it felt like.

I thought it fit Arnaud really well.

 

[throwittoblythe]

To be honest, I would have liked to have kept MacFarland. Arnaud and the offense was showing some life at the end of the last year.

THerman’s offense at the time got us nowhere, as we did not have the personnel for it. After that, the offensive instability just ruined CPR’s tenure.

Don't knock the bubble screen until you've tried it 400 times unsuccessfully and just keep running it even though our receivers couldn't block and we didn't have the skill players to run it in the first place!

 

[BCClone]

Don't knock the bubble screen until you've tried it 400 times unsuccessfully and just keep running it even though our receivers couldn't block and we didn't have the skill players to run it in the first place!

The bubble screen works if after a few you run a couple draws off it and/or pump fake and send the blocker deep after faking a whiffed block. We just keep running the bubble and not taking advantage of the changing defense.

 

[madguy30]

Mcfarland brought an interesting offense.
Set up, look to the sideline, look back at the defense and get called for delay or false start. Call timeout and repeat. I dont know if thats entirely accurate but thats what it felt like.

Didn't a CPR team do this kind of stuff? They seemed to have a throwing darts approach to picking scheme every season.

 

[awd4cy]

Mcfarland brought an interesting offense.
Set up, look to the sideline, look back at the defense and get called for delay or false start. Call timeout and repeat. I dont know if thats entirely accurate but thats what it felt like.

Haha, that was very accurate. Sadly I missed that offense when Messingham and Mangino we’re here.

 

[ThatllDoCy]

Don't knock the bubble screen until you've tried it 400 times unsuccessfully and just keep running it even though our receivers couldn't block and we didn't have the skill players to run it in the first place!

Or years of running a zone read where the QB actually runs the ball 1 out of very 100 attempts. #trickeration

 

[ThatllDoCy]

Haha, that was very accurate. Sadly I missed that offense when Messingham and Mangino we’re here.

Who was the $&@&head who slept on his garage with no shirt or something?

 

[CyBobby]

Wayne Bolt. Lol

The way I remember it Wayne Bolt DC was the coach who was always Chewing Tobacco and spitting in a can.....Only defense I ever saw that gave up deep passes down the middle of the field....