Oregon Football Set to Hire FSU OC Kenny Dillingham
New Oregon head coach Dan Lanning is set to make his first coaching staff hire.
Lanning will hire away Florida State offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham for the same job at Oregon. The hire was first reported by ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg.
His previous stops include leading explosive offenses at Memphis and Auburn. Mike Norvell thought enough of his work to bring him to Florida State after taking that job in 2020.
Dillingham is originally from Phoenix and is an ASU alum. His coaching career began at ASU as an offensive analyst in 2014.
Coach Lanning now turns to filling out numerous other staffing positions. Having Dillingham will be a good start to help with offensive assistants moving forward.
From the Florida State official website:
Kenny Dillingham was named Florida State’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach on Dec. 11, 2019.
Dillingham has had seven of his players selected in the last three NFL Drafts, including four in 2020. In the last five years, he has coached seven all-conference performers, one first-team All-American and three Freshman All-Americans.
In his first season at Florida State, Dillingham guided four different starting quarterbacks, including two true freshmen, and adjusted the dynamic scheme to fit the strengths of each. It was only the second time in program history four different quarterbacks started at least one game in a season, and Tate Rodemaker and Chubba Purdy became only the fourth and fifth true freshman quarterbacks to start a game in program history.
Redshirt sophomore Jordan Travis thrived in 2020 as he broke Florida State’s single-season record for rushing yards by a quarterback while becoming the first FSU quarterback with at least one rushing touchdown in six straight games and the first player in program history to have at least one rushing and one passing touchdown in four straight games. Travis led all ACC quarterbacks and ranked fifth overall in the conference with an average of 5.76 yards per carry, while his yards-per-completion average of 14.67 was second in the ACC and eighth nationally. He finished the season as one of only nine FBS quarterbacks to pass for at least 1,000 yards and rush for at least 550 yards.
