Les Miles makes midseason change, names former Auburn staffer new Kansas OC
By Keith Farner
Published:
Kansas coach Les Miles has made his first significant coaching staff change as the Jayhawks have stumbled to a 2-4 start following Saturday’s 45-20 loss to Oklahoma.
Miles replaced offensive coordinator Les Koenning, a former Alabama OC in 2001-02, with Brent Dearmon, a former Auburn staffer. The Jayhawks are ranked No. 102 in the country in total offense.
“Brent is one of the brightest individuals I have encountered in all of my years coaching,” Miles said in a release from the school. “His experience as a record-setting coach and quarterback at the collegiate level will benefit our offense immediately. I believe our players will be naturally drawn to Brent’s leadership and coaching ability. I have the utmost trust in his ability to lead young men and this move puts our players in the best position to be successful moving forward.”
Dearmon joined the staff at KU after a one-year head coaching stint at Bethel University (Tennessee) where he produced the nation’s highest-scoring offense at any level in 2018. Before Bethel, Dearmon spent three seasons as the offensive coordinator at Division II Arkansas Tech, and two seasons as an analyst on Gus Malzahn’s staff at Auburn.
Dearmon spent the 2013 season as a running backs analyst and the 2014 season as a wide receivers analyst at Auburn.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
