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FSU set to hire veteran OL coach and long-time Malzahn assistant Herb Hand

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New Florida State offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn didn’t have to look very far to figure out who his offensive line coach was going to be.

Florida State’s new offensive coordinator is bringing his longtime assistant to Tallahassee with him.

Herb Hand, who was the offensive line coach under Malzahn at Tulsa, Auburn and for the last four years at Central Florida, has been hired to be the Seminoles’ next offensive line coach as well, a Florida State source confirmed to Warchant on Monday morning.

Hand has coached in major programs all over the country during his decorated career. He was a graduate assistant for Clemson from 1999-2000 and then was the recruiting coordinator and tight ends coach at West Virginia for six seasons.

News of Hand’s hiring was first reported by Brandon Marcello, a national college football reporter with CBS/247 Sports.

Hand’s first full-time offensive line coaching job was at Tulsa from 2007-2009, where he worked with offensive coordinator Malzahn and a young graduate assistant-turned wide receivers coach named Mike Norvell.

He then was the offensive line coach at Vanderbilt for four seasons, then took the same job at Penn State for two years, before Malzahn hired him at Auburn for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. He left there to go to Texas for three years and then reunited – once again – with Malzahn at UCF.

In total, he’s been coaching Division-I offensive lines for 18 years, with stops at some of the biggest football powerhouses in the country. Now he’s at another one.

During his four years at UCF, the Knights boasted one of the best rushing teams in America, consistently finishing in the Top 10 in the country in that department. His 2017 Auburn offensive line was a finalist for the Joe Moore Award (best offensive line in the country) and was a semifinalist in 2016.

His Penn State offensive line helped pave the way for Saquon Barkley to set a freshman rushing record at the school.

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