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UTEP football coach Scotty Walden’s first task in El Paso was to assemble his first staff, and like everything else surrounding Miner football, it’s almost entirely new and largely young.
The 17 assistants are 100% new to UTEP, though 11 of them were with Walden at Austin Peay, part of the massive exodus from Clarksville, Tenn. to El Paso.
UTEP head football coach Scotty Walden talks to his team after the spring game on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at the Sun Bowl stadium in El Paso, TX.
As a result, what UTEP puts on the field will look much like the Peay team that went 9-3 last year in the FCS.
Here is a look at the offensive coaches.
Jake Brown is the offensive coordinator at UTEP after spending the 2023 season at Louisiana Tech
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Jake Brown, offensive coordinator/wide receivers
Brown is one of the minority of coaches at UTEP who wasn’t at Peay, as he spent the previous two years as co-offensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech. His background before that was in Texas. A 2009 graduate of North Texas, he worked at Texas Tech, Baylor, TCU and West Texas A&M before going to Louisiana Tech.
Ryan Stanchek is UTEP’s offensive line coach UTEP ATHLETICS
Ryan Stanchek, offensive line
Stanchek was the offensive line coach at Tulsa last season, which followed a season as the offensive line coach at Austin Peay in 2022. He first coached with Walden at Southern Miss in 2019 and 2020.
This will be his first coaching job in Texas. He was a two-time All-American offensive lineman at West Virginia, where he finished in 2008.
Jourdan McNeill, running backs
McNeill was at Austin Peay the last three years as its running backs coach, working with all-conference tailback Jevon Jackson. Jackson was one of UTEP’s first recruits after Walden and McNeill arrived.
He was a…
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Author : The El Paso Times
Publish date : 2024-07-25 13:01:00
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