UCF coach Gus Malzahn brings in offensive analyst with SEC, NFL expertise

UCF soccer mentor Gus Malzahn ongoing to grow his team Monday by choosing previous LSU passing sport coordinator DJ Mangas as an analyst, the application declared.

Mangas returned to LSU this earlier season soon after one calendar year in the NFL as an offensive assistant with the Carolina Panthers in 2020.

He was, even so, not retained by new LSU football coach Brian Kelly, Fox Sports’ Bruce Feldman claimed last December.

In 2019, Mangas served as an offensive analyst underneath previous LSU offensive coordinator Joe Brady just before leaving for the NFL to stick to Brady to Carolina.

That time, LSU received the national championship, scoring 50 or extra points 7 occasions and profitable all but two game titles by double-digits.

In Carolina the next 12 months, Mangas worked alongside both equally Brady and previous quarterbacks mentor Jake Peetz.

That season, 4 Panthers every single finished with around 1,000 scrimmage yards as Carolina became only the fifth group in the Super Bowl era to execute these a feat.

Prior to coaching in the SEC and NFL, Mangas worked at his alma mater, William & Mary, from 2014-18. He coached functioning backs for a few seasons and then was promoted to offensive coordinator for his remaining two many years there.

At the time in 2017, Mangas was the second-youngest offensive coordinator in Division I soccer.

Below Mangas, equally William & Mary operating backs Mikal Abdul-Saboor (3,108 yards) and Kendell Anderson (3,082) finished their careers as two of the most successful working backs in faculty heritage, position fourth and fifth, respectively, on the program’s all-time speeding record.

Mangas performed vast receiver at William & Mary from 2007-11. All through his senior period, he led his staff in receptions (45), acquiring yards (591) and touchdown catches (5).

Next his playing job, Mangas became a student assistant the future spring at William & Mary before leaving for Hampton-Sydney University in 2012 to coach quarterbacks.

The subsequent yr Mangas served as the functioning backs mentor at Georgetown and then returned to William & Mary for the up coming 5 a long time.

Mangas joins offensive analyst Jesse Stone, defensive analyst Charles Moore and unique-teams analyst Ben Larson on Malzahn’s coaching staff at UCF.

Even though coaches can use analysts in many roles, this sort of as an adviser or a person to crack down opponents’ schemes, analysts simply cannot mentor on the discipline or at follow.

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