Jonathan Smith’s background is offensive, and Michigan State footballThe head coach reportedly turned to one of his former assistants to mentor Aidan Chiles.
The Spartans are hiring Jon Boyer away from Oregon State to take over as quarterbacks coach, according to ESPN. He becomes the seventh former MSU staff coach to leave Corvallis and join Smith in East Lansing.
Boyer became tight ends coach last season after Smith and most of his staff left for MSU. He spent the previous six seasons as Beaversquality control coach and senior offensive advisor after serving as offensive coordinator at his alma mater Northern Colorado (in the Football Championship Subdivision) from 2012 to 2017. Boyer was the Bears’ starting quarterback in 2000-01 and then there stayed from 2002-05 and coached quarterbacks in 2004-05 before becoming offensive coordinator at Colorado Mesa from 2007-05. 2010.
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As an understudy to Brian Lindgren, now MSU’s offensive coordinator at Oregon State, Boyer worked with former Beavers quarterback DJ Uiagalelei as well as Chiles in 2023.
The move comes after former MSU star player and Los Angeles native Demetrice Martin left his position as cornerbacks coach to take a similar role at UCLA, where he will be passing game coordinator and oversee the entire secondary school. Martin worked under secondary coach Blue Martin in his only season back with the Spartans after spending 14 seasons coaching on the West Coast.
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