The Rutgers Scarlet Knights have made a little bit of a shuffle with their offensive assistants, naming former Texas offensive analyst Dave Brock as their new wide receivers coach.
With the hire, announced Thursday by the school, former wide receivers coach Damiere Shaw will move to running backs coach, and Andrew Aurich, who was the RB coach last season, moves over to tight ends, filling the vacancy created when Nunzio Campanile left the program earlier this month.
“We welcome Dave and his family back to New Jersey and Rutgers,” Schiano said in Rutgers’ official statement announcing the moves. “He brings a wealth of knowledge having a track record of developing wide receivers at the highest level. This is an exciting time for our program and we are glad to have Dave on board.”
“It’s great to be back home in New Jersey,” Brock said. “I look forward to working with Coach Schiano and Coach Ciarrocca, both excellent leaders who know how to develop talent. I’m excited to meet the players and get to work.”
Brock is the first new assistant added to the staff of Kirk Ciarrocca, who was named offensive coordinator earlier this month. This is his second stint in Piscataway, as he was the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach for the 2012 team that won the Big East championship.
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The 55-year-old, a native of Moorestown, N.J., had quite a decade after his one season at Rutgers. He was named head coach at Delaware in 2013 and held that role for four seasons, then he spent 2017-21 with the Atlanta Falcons, the last four of those years as the wide receivers coach, before joining the Longhorns as a senior analyst last year.
Brock began his coaching career at his alma mater, Salisbury State (now Salisbury University) in 1988, serving three years there an assistant, and before his first stint at Rutgers he also spent time at Western Connecticut State (1991-93), Salisbury again (1994), Hofstra (1995-2001), Temple (2002-04), North Carolina (2005-06), Kansas State (2007-08), and Boston College (2009-11).
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