Virginia Offensive Line Coach Garett Tujague Hired by NC State

Virginia’s longtime offensive line coach Garett Tujague is headed to Raleigh to turn out to be the subsequent offensive line coach at NC State, per a number of studies on Sunday night time. After seven seasons because the OL coach at UVA, Tujague will be part of fellow former Virginia assistant Robert Anae, who was employed as NC State’s subsequent offensive coordinator on Friday. 

Tujague was a part of the teaching workers that got here to Virginia from BYU in 2016 after which Tujague was retained on Tony Elliott’s new UVA teaching workers this previous offseason. He additionally took on the extra position of recruiting coordinator in 2022. 

The lack of Garett Tujague poses a big problem for Tony Elliott and the Cavaliers, as Tujague did an exceptional job growing constantly strong offensive traces all through his time at UVA. Tujague’s offensive traces have been pivotal in Virginia’s run to the ACC Coastal Championship in 2019 and paved the way in which for essentially the most explosive offense in Virginia historical past in 2021. He was accountable for the event of three All-ACC offensive linemen, together with heart Olu Oluwatimi, who grew to become UVA’s first-ever finalist for the Rimington Trophy in 2021. 

Following Bronco Mendenhall’s resignation in 2021, UVA misplaced six offensive linemen with beginning expertise to both the switch portal or commencement. Tujague embraced the problem of completely reconstructing the offensive line and the inexperienced unit displayed important progress all through the 2022 season. 

Tujague’s transfer to NC State seemingly comes as a direct results of Robert Anae’s hiring because the offensive coordinator at NC State final week. Anae left Virginia to go to Syracuse together with quarterbacks coach Jason Beck following Bronco Mendenhall’s resignation on the finish of the 2021 season. After one season at Syracuse, Anae was employed because the offensive coordinator at NC State, taking the job vacated by Tim Beck, who was employed as the top coach at Coastal Carolina. Jason Beck has since been promoted to offensive coordinator at Syracuse. 

With Garett Tujague’s sudden departure, there are actually solely two holdovers from Bronco Mendenhall’s UVA workers on the present Virginia teaching workers below Tony Elliott: linebackers coach Clint Sintim and affiliate head coach and vast receivers coach Marques Hagans. Elliott and the Cavaliers will now start a search to search out Tujague’s alternative as the subsequent offensive line coach at Virginia.

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