Tennessee Football expected to hire UConn administrator Andrew Goodman new director of operations

According to On3’s Matt Zenitz, the Tennessee Volunteers are hiring UConn’s Andrew Goodman as director of football operations.

Before he was at UConn, Andrew Goodman held the same role at Brown for three seasons. Before that, he was a recruiting coordinator for Penn State under head coach James Franklin. Worth noting is that Penn State is where Goodman played his own football as a wide receiver.

Andrew Goodman will be replacing Andrew Warsaw, who left to go to USF and become an associate athletic and football chief of staff back in December of 2022. That, perhaps unsurprisingly, was around the same time that USF hired Tennessee offensive coordinator Alex Golesh as its next head coach.

Last season saw UConn win the most games for the program since 2015 in just year one under new head coach Jim Mora.

Tennessee has extended several key people

Over the past couple of days, Tennessee has been busy. The Volunteers extended both head football coach Josh Heupel and athletic director Danny White, clearly happy with how this past season went.

Heupel’s new deal is now set to go through 2029 and will pay him $9 million annually. Heupel has now coached two seasons at Tennessee, a job very few people seemed to want when he took it. In those years, he’s rebuilt the program, going 18-8 overall with an Orange Bowl win.

As for Danny White, he got a new six-year contract that’s worth $2.2 million annually. He, like Heupel, came over from UCF where White had originally hired Heupel.