Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz has focused his search for an offensive coordinator and quarterback coach on Fresno State University assistant Kirby Moore, though the deal was final as of Wednesday morning. not, multiple university officials told the Post-Dispatch. ESPN’s Pete Thamel was the first to report MU’s interest in Moore.
Moore has spent the past six seasons on the Fresno State staff, serving as wide receiver coach (2017-19), receiver coach and passing game coordinator (2020-21), and last season as offensive coordinator and quarterback coach. He coached him offensively at the University of Washington in 2015-16 as his assistant to his graduate, and spent the 2014 season at Idaho coaching his receivers. Moore was a wide receiver at Boise State University from 2009-13, along with his older brother Kellen Moore, who is now the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys. Drinkwitz spent his two seasons from 2014 to 2015 at Boise as an assistant.
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Coincidentally, Moore will replace former Mizot quarterback coach Bush Hamdan, who was Kellen Moore’s backup quarterback at Boise State University and left the Mizot staff last month to take the coordinator position at Boise.
With Moore calling the plays of head coach Jeff Tedford, Fresno State went 10-4 this year to beat Boise State for the Mountain West Conference Championship and Washington State in the Jimmy Kimmel Bowl on December 17. rice field.
Drinkwitz has served as his own coordinator and play-caller through his first three seasons with Mizo, but Hamdan took over as play-caller for the final three games of the 2022 regular season. Drinkwitz also shuffled his staff offensively after serving as quarterback coach in the 2020-21 season, switching Hamdan from receiver to quarterback.
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