Tom Smart, University of Utah Athletics
Co-offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick prior to the game as the University of Utah defeats Cal 30-24 in PAC12 NCAA football Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
SALT LAKE CITY — Aaron Roderick, who recently joined BYU’s coaching staff, has been a football coach without a team for the past year. After 18 seasons in the collegiate coaching ranks, he was fired by the Utes — the eighth offensive coordinator to leave or be fired in nine years at Utah — and then dropped out of sight.
Rebuffing potential job offers from other schools, he decided to take a year off to rest, carpool his kids and undertake his own professional development course.