Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Shawn Harrison interviews Tim Duryea, USU assistant coach

Many thanks to Shawn Harrison for his interview today with Utah State assistant coach Tim Duryea. There's a number of informational nuggets contained in it -- we especially liked the parts about scheduling, the Aggie styles of play and coaching vacancies. The accompanying photo is also perfect, containing how the coaching staff signals offensive setups and plays to the players.

Duryea enjoying USU
Shawn Harrison
Herald Journal
June 30, 2009


It’s been nearly a decade since Tim Duryea moved to Cache Valley.

The Kansas native brought his family to Northern Utah when he was hired on as an assistant coach with Utah State head men’s basketball coach Stew Morrill. While he would like to be in charge of his own Division I program some day — he was the head coach at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas — right now he is content with being an Aggie.

Since arriving in 2002, the 44-year-old father of three and husband to Angie has moved up the ladder on Morrill’s staff. A year ago he was promoted to associate coach and took over being in charge of the offense. With the promotion also came the responsibility of doing a lot of the work in setting up USU’s schedule...
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