Utah hires Chad Kauha'aha'a as new defensive lines coach
by JazzyUte on Feb 3, 2011 6:59 PM MST
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Former Utah football player ('96) Chad Kauha'aha'a has been hired as Utah's new defensive line's coach. Kauha'aha'a replaces John Pease, who retired late last year.
Kauha'aha'a returns to the Utah football program after spending two years coaching the Utah State defensive line. Prior to his stop in Logan, he coached the same position under Ron McBride at Weber State for four years.
Beyond his hire, Kyle Whittingham announced some other coaching changes:
- Dave Schramm will return to coaching the running backs. He coached that position for four years before taking over the offensive coordinator duties at the start of the 2009 season.
- Aaron Roderick will return to coaching the receivers.
- Aaron Alford, who has been with the program since 2007, has quit coaching - but will remain with the team as the director of high school relations.
- Brian Johnson will remain quarterbacks coach.
- Tim Davis, of course, will coach Utah's offensive line.
- Norm Chow, Utah's new offensive coordinator, will also coach tight ends.
This is probably the biggest overall shakeup on the offensive end since the completion of the 2008 season. But, as I've said many times on Block U, it was needed.
What are your thoughts on these moves?
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We'll see how things pan out
Kauha’aha’a should be a good fit as Utah’s defensive line coach. He’s an alum and former player, has Utah coaching ties, and can hopefully help recruit some of the top notch local Polynesian d-line talent to stay home. Whit is a defensive minded coach, so I’m sure he knows good young talent when he sees it.
On the offensive side, I didn’t really know what to expect. I’m surprised that Chow is only being used as a tight ends coach, but I’m sure he’ll have his hand in all facets of the offense. Alford did a great job with the running backs but he was brought in and had way more experience as a defensive coach. I’m glad they’re keeping him on staff. I think all the other guys are where they are best suited based on past experience and also what they played in college.
I hope Norm Chow will be mentoring Brian Johnson heavily.
Also, something tells me we’ll be seeing more passes thrown to tight ends this year, and more tight ends involved in run blocking.
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Well . . .
I am terribly impressed with Whittingham’s desire to make the offense better. He’s making bold moves and if they pay off I hope he gets a noid from folks regarding same.
Something had to be done, for an entire off season we heard about the offensive potential of the team and it lack consistency, was hammered by above average teams, and couldn’t really point to a single aspect of the game that they did a superior job in.
Looking forward to the new year.
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."--John Heisman
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Good mix of folks and experience – proven winners and up-n-comers. I’ve thought that the spread was dead for a couple of years. I don’t think that we really ran the offense as a true spread since Urban left and maybe that’s one reason for all the penalties on offense over the years. The coaches were out of their element trying to run an offense that they weren’t fully comfortable with or that they truly believed in resulting in kids not fully understanding how to run the hybrid.
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word" - Andrew Jackson
by hybrid you mean a little pro style with a little spread sprinkled in?
The University of Utah is off to the Pac-12 Conference and will be in the South Division. Hopefully we will get to the first ever Pac-12 Championship Game. Jon " Bones " Jones gets his chance for the UFC Light Heavyweight Title when he faces off against Shogun Rua.
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