BYU football: Top candidates to replace Ty Detmer as OC

Aaron Roderick, BYU football consultant

Roderick spent most of this season with BYU football as a special consultant, but there’s no telling just what his role was, exactly.

What we do know is that Roderick has experience as a Division-I, Power Five offensive coordinator.

While the results were mixed at Utah, Roderick did spend 11 years with the Utes. From 2005-09 he was the wide receivers coach. In 2010 he was the co-offensive coordinator while maintaining his role with the wide outs. The next year, in 2011, Roderick went back to just coaching receivers.

From 2012-13 he served as Utah’s passing game coordinator. In 2014 he was the QB coach and from 2015-16 he was back to being to co-offensive coordinator.

Roderick’s offenses struggled in the red zone during his tenure. The 2016 Utes were 106th in the nation in red zone offense, which was likely the straw that broke the camel’s back. That season the Utes were also 8th in the Pac-12 in points per game, putting up 29.8 per contest. That number is low in the Pac-12, but it nearly doubles what BYU football managed this season.