MOSCOW, Idaho- University of Idaho football has hired Steve Oliver as the Mark Vaught Director of Football Operations, head coach Paul Petrino announced Tuesday. Oliver spent the last two seasons as an offensive graduate assistant for the Vandals. He returns to Moscow from Montana State-Northern, where he was an assistant coach since January.
The director of football operations position at Idaho was named in honor of former director of operations Mark Vaught, who passed away in 2014 after a battle with cancer at the age of 31. Vaught started at Idaho in 2008 and rose to the position of Assistant Athletic Director/Football Operations.