The University of Oregon will reportedly hire Arizona State football assistant La Shard Samples as the next running backs coach and assistant head coach under Dan Lanning, 247 Sports' Matt Zenitz reported Sunday. It was first reported on.
Samples, the Sun Devils' passing game coordinator and receivers coach, is known as one of the top recruiters in the country. Samples had just signed a contract extension with the Sun Devils through the 2025 season, and ASU was aiming to make the Big 12.
Samples joined ASU during head coach Kenny Dillingham's first season, leaving the Los Angeles Rams where he was the running backs coach.
Samples, who became the NFL's youngest position coach at age 27 in 2022, previously worked at SMU. There, Samples started as an offensive assistant in 2019, moved to running backs coach and recruiting coordinator in 2020, and became assistant head coach and running backs coach in 2021.
Samples, a former receiver at Oklahoma State and Houston, started coaching at Houston in 2016-2017 and spent a year as an assistant wide receivers coach at Texas after a series of concussions ended his playing career. Spent.
As a player, he starred at Skyline High School in Dallas.
Sample filled the Ducks' vacant running backs coach role after Carlos Loughlin left last week for Ohio State.
flared up towards @RashaadSample This is his second time as a P5 assistant head coach before he turned 30!!! We will be forever grateful to him for helping us get ASU back in a positive direction!!! And I can't wait to see his career continue to grow exponentially!!
— Coach Dillingham (@KennyDillingham) April 7, 2024
