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Report: Tony Dews Returning To West Virginia Football Staff
Tony Dews is reportedly coming back to West Virginia. The Mountaineers were in need of a new running backs coach.
February 5, 2017
Tony Dews is reportedly coming back to West Virginia. The Mountaineers were in need of a new running backs coach.
Tony Dews is coming home.
One day after running backs coach JaJuan Seider left to take a job at Florida, West Virginia replaced him with Dews, who had spent the previous five seasons at Arizona, according to the Gazette-Mail.
The former Mountaineers graduate assistant and assistant coach will be the third former Arizona assistant on Dana Holgorsen’s staff, joining defensive coordinator Tony Gibson and safeties coach Matt Caponi.
West Virginia is expected to announce the addition of Dews on Sunday.
Dews, who played football at Liberty, worked as a grad assistant in Morgantown from 1999-2001 and returned to the school as wide receivers coach for Rich Rodriguez’s final season there in 2007. Rodriguez hired Dews shortly after becoming Arizona’s coach in November 2011.
Seider, who had been WVU’s running backs coach since 2013, was named the RBs coach by Florida on Friday. Dews has never coached running backs before, but his Arizona receivers were effective until last season, when the production of the passing game decreased because of largely ineffective quarterback play.
A native of Clifton, VA, Dews is known for his recruiting in northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
