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Report: Arizona co-offensive coordinator headed to West Virginia

by on Jan. 02, 2011, under Sports

Bill Bedenbaugh

(7:25 p.m. UPDATE: I talked to Arizona coach Mike Stoops, who said he wouldn’t comment tonight on the possibility of Bill Bedenbaugh’s departure.)

According to a Twitter post from Tom Deinhart, the national college football writer for Rivals.com, Arizona co-offensive coordinator Bill Bedenbaugh will join the coaching staff of his old pal, Dana Holgorsen at West Virginia.

Holgorsen, who was the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State this season, will be the offensive coordinator at West Virginia in 2011 before taking over head coaching duties.

Bedenbaugh and Holgorsen were teammates at Iowa Wesleyan in the early 1990s and coached together at Texas Tech under Mike Leach.

Bedenbaugh has been at Arizona since 2007, coaching the offensive line. He was promoted to co-offensive coordinator with running backs coach Seth Littrell after last season, with Littrell being the primary play-caller.

Bedenbaugh has been key to Arizona’s recruiting efforts in Illinois, bringing in tight end Jack Baucus, as well as offensive tackles Mickey Baucus and Fabbians Ebbele, among others. Bedenbaugh talked recently about the potential of Mickey Baucus and Ebbele — who each redshirted this season — as part of a rebuilt offensive line for next season.

That leaves two openings on Arizona’s coaching staff. Coach Mike Stoops also has to hire a secondary coach to replace Greg Brown. Stoops already has replaced defensive tackles coach Mike Tuiasosopo with Joe Salave’a.

I wrote about Bedenbaugh’s relationship with Holgorsen on Dec. 15 for this story: How the West Virginia coaching job could affect the Arizona Wildcats

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  • http://none Jim Bodkins

    Stoops is gone after next season. It would be a mistake to ‘rebuild’ for one season. Byrne needs to consider making a head coaching change now.

    • sethers

      Get a clue. If that does happen, which it won’t, Arizona football is doomed for at least another decade.

    • dcUA

      ahhh another idiot fan. i love them

  • sethers

    What actually needs to happen is that Arizona needs to find ways to bring more money into the program so they can pay assistants competitive salaries. Byrne should work on that and finishing the stadium upgrades before listening to idiots calling for Stoops’ head.

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  • http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5982537 beardown88

    Anthony,
    Can you find out if Coach Stoops and Coach Scelfo have any interest in Rob Bolden, the Penn St. freshman qb ESPN reports wants to transfer?  He was a 4 star dual threat QB coming out of high school and won the starting job at Penn St as a true freshman.  Seems like he would be a great fit considering our need for a quality QB in 2012.
    Thx

  • http://none Jim Bodkins

    Please learn to read. I said nothing of the sort. And since you are being rude … piss off.
     
     
    Unless Stoops does something amazing next year, he will have had a number of years as head coach with very middling results. (Sister kissing record, poor performance in must win games, poor post season performance, poor decisions in terms of program building and more) Byrne wont stand for that. He has been selling everything from the Rio Grande to the Cali border as UofA country.
     
    Stoops has another year like this after all the years he has been here and Byrne will send him packing. It has nothing to do with me. Byrne isnt going to build a football shrine to a coach with a mediocre record. He is getting the money. He will build additions and he will see to it that the program has a coach that is worthy of all that.
     
    Stoops has one  year to pull off a miracle.
     
    There … thats a clue kid.
     

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