Former Boise State football coach Avalos has a new gig, and it’s in the Big 12
Former Boise State football coach Andy Avalos has a new job.
TCU announced Monday that it has hired Avalos as its new defensive coordinator.
Avalos, 42, went 22-14 in three seasons as head coach at Boise State, which is the same program he took the field for as a linebacker from 2000 to 2004. He also coached the Broncos’ defensive line and linebackers from 2012 to 2015, and he was Boise State’s defensive coordinator from 2016 to 2018.
He spent two years as defensive coordinator at Oregon before returning to his alma mater as head coach in 2021. Boise State fired Avalos on Nov. 12. He still had two years left on his contract.
He was not fired for cause, according to a spokesperson for Boise State, which meant the university owed him a buyout that amounted to about $3.4 million. That figure will be reduced because he found new employment within the time frame of the five-year deal he signed in 2021, according to his contract.
Avalos is replacing former TCU defensive coordinator Joe Gillespie, who was fired Sunday after two seasons on the job. A year removed from playing for a national championship, the Horned Frogs gave up 408.3 yards and 27.8 points a game and finished with a 5-7 record this season.
Avalos was replaced as Boise State’s head coach by his former defensive coordinator, Spencer Danielson. Danielson will lead the Broncos against UCLA in the LA Bowl on Dec. 16.
This story was originally published December 11, 2023 at 10:43 AM.
