With Boise State head coach Bryan Harsin taking the Auburn job, what are the chances the Broncos will make a play for current Oregon defensive coordinator Andy Avalos?
Many believe the odds are pretty good that the Broncos will put the former BSU assistant and player high on their list of prospects.
(See, for example, the Tweets of Bryan Fischer, James Crepea, and Chadd Cripe below)
Avalos spent seven seasons as an assistant at Boise State, where he was the Broncos’ defensive coordinator during his final three seasons (2016-18), and worked as both the defensive line coach (2012-13) and linebackers coach (2014-15) the previous four seasons.
As a four-year letterwinner for the Broncos, Avalos earned first-team All-Western Athletic Conference honors at outside linebacker in each of his final two seasons.
He completed his career ranked fourth all-time with 365 tackles, and led the Broncos in that statistical category in each of his final three seasons.
Avalos was also listed as one of the 30 greatest players at Boise State since the inception of blue turf in 1986.
In his first season on Mario Cristobal’s Oregon staff in 2019, Avalos was a semifinalist for the Broyles Award, honoring college football’s top assistant coach.
Will it take under 48 hours for Boise to replace Harsin with Andy Avalos?
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) December 22, 2020
For the record: Bryan Harsin was due to make $1.865M at Boise State this year.
Andy Avalos is due $865,000 at Oregon next year and his buyout is waved if he’s hired as an FBS head coach.— James Crepea (@JamesCrepea) December 22, 2020
And here’s Andy Avalos to @davesouthorn in March 2019: “I’ve never set out and said, ‘I want to be a head coach.’ I want to do the best in my role. … Boise has a huge spot in my heart. It’s the place that helped me grow.”
— Chadd Cripe (@chaddcripe) December 23, 2020
— SportsPac12 Staff
