Longtime head coach and spread offense innovator Rich Rodriguez is expected to be hired as Ole Miss’s new offensive coordinator, according to The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman.
Rodriguez spent 16 seasons as the head coach at West Virginia, Michigan and Arizona from 2001 to 2017, leading several productive offenses that used an up-tempo power-run attack to devastating effect and made players like Pat White, Steve Slaton, Denard Robinson and, in 2017, Khalil Tate household names. But his head-coaching career ended in scandal last January when Arizona fired him without cause in the wake of a school investigation for workplace misconduct, while Rodriguez received a notice of claim for a multi-million-dollar lawsuit over allegations of sexual harrassment and the creation of a hostile workplace environment by his former administrative assistant.