Baylor has an opening and is moving away from hiring Troy OC Ryan Pugh, the former BYU OL coach, as its OL coach after announcing the hire on Tuesday
BYU is losing another of its highly regarded offensive coaches to Baylor, according to a report in Footballscoop.com.
The coaching news-based website said Thursday afternoon that BYU offensive line coach Eric Mateos will follow Jeff Grimes to the Big 12 school that hired Grimes away from the Cougars earlier this week.
Mateos replaced offensive line coach Ryan Pugh at BYU in 2019 when Pugh left Provo to become Troy’s offensive coordinator. Ironically, Pugh was said on Tuesday to be joining Grimes at Baylor, but Baylor announced Wednesday it was no longer hiring Pugh.
“Since the recent announcement of Ryan Pugh as Baylor’s OL coach, we have decided to move in a different direction,” Baylor coach Dave Aranda announced Wednesday night. “We are currently in the process of filling the resulting vacancy. We wish Ryan the best in his future endeavors.”
Marrying this beauty on Saturday. Can’t wait @GillianChavez pic.twitter.com/f9mYgZ6bgt
— Eric Mateos (@CoachMateos) January 4, 2021
Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades told ESPN Central Texas radio Thursday that not hiring Push was a “personnel issue” and said the school reversed course after doing its “due diligence.”
“There were just some things where we felt like we needed to go in another direction,” Rhoades said. “That’s probably the best way that I can explain it.”
If the report is accurate, BYU loses a coach who helped turn its offensive line into one of the best in the country in 2020. Grimes developed left tackle Brady Christensen into a consensus All-American and a likely pick in April’s NFL Draft.
Seniors Chandon Herring, Tristen Hoge and Kieffer Longson are also NFL prospects from BYU’s 2020 offensive line.
Mateos is scheduled to marry BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe’s former administrative assistant Gillian Chavez on Saturday.
Mateos, who is from Overland Park, Kansas, played collegiately at Southwest Baptist and coached there and at Hutchinson Community College before becoming a graduate assistant at Arkansas from 2013-15.
He coached with Grimes at LSU in 2016 and moved on to Texas State as its offensive line coach in 2017-18. He joined coach Kalani Sitake’s staff in 2019.
This story will be updated.
Added a couple of updates here. Might be a few more tonight... https://t.co/b2avZt5qcD
— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) January 8, 2021
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