Video: NC State football introduces Robert Anae, Garett Tujague

NC State football had already officially announced the hirings of offensive coordinator Robert Anae and offensive line coach Garett Tujague. The Wolfpack now has a full coaching staff again after John Garrison and Tim Beck departed for new jobs.

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Anae coached at BYU, UVA and Syracuse over the past decade. In six seasons at Virginia, Anae oversaw gradual improvement of the offense. Each season, the Cavaliers improved their national rank in yards per game from the prior year, rising from 112th in 2016 to No. 3 before former UVA head coach Bronco Mendenhall announced his sudden resignation after the 2021 campaign.

Anae spent last season at Syracuse.

Tujague (pronounced TOO-jay) worked with Anae for the coordinator’s entire tenure at UVA and will be reunited at NC State. He was also Anae’s offensive line coach when the latter was the offensive coordinator at BYU from 2013-15. Prior to BYU, Tujague was the head coach at the College of the Canyons from 2007-12— a junior college in Santa Clarita, Calif. As their head coach, Tujague went 43-25. 

The two met with the media Tuesday afternoon. Both confirmed that they are strictly observing NC State football practices at the moment while helping with recruiting and retaining players.

Anae detailed his offensive philosophy in the most simplistic terms possible. While confirming that there will be new terminology, his early impressions of the NC State football players is that they are mature enough to handle the new offense that will be installed after the Duke’s Mayo Bowl in Charlotte on Dec. 30 at noon.

That game against Maryland will be televised on ESPN.

Anae also detailed his family connections, including three grandchildren with a fourth on the way, to the Raleigh region, and what else motivated him to accept the position with NC State, a process that Anae described as “quick” but also said was not “rash.”

Both Tujague and Anae detailed their relationships with each other. Tujague joked that he has known Anea longer than his wife. Anae was the graduate assistant at BYU when Tujague played on the Cougars’ offensive line.

Like Anae, Tujague is impressed by what he has seen from the NC State offensive linemen in practice. He also noted that he had turned down four different job offers to leave Virginia, but that when NC State head coach Dave Doeren called about his open position, the decision to accept was easy.

Anae takes over for Beck, who left NC State to become the head coach at Coastal Carolina. Garrison took the offensive line coaching job at Ole Miss.

You can watch both of Anae’s and Tujague’s meetings with the press on Tuesday afternoon below. Both videos are courtesy The Wolfpacker’s YouTube channel.