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North Carolina State is turning to a coach with several SEC ties to fill its offensive coordinator vacancy.
The program announced Monday that it has hired Kurt Roper to replace Eliah Drinkwitz, who recently took the head coaching position at Appalachian State. Roper has been an offensive assistant at five SEC schools since his coaching career began in 1996, and his most recent job was as offensive coordinator at Colorado.
Roper got his start as a graduate assistant at Tennessee before spending 1999-2004 as quarterbacks coach at Ole Miss. After holding the same position for one year at Kentucky, Roper went back to Knoxville for a two-year stint as running backs coach.
He returned to the SEC to be offensive coordinator in Will Muschamp’s final year at Florida, and he later rejoined Muschamp from 2016-17 at South Carolina.
Now Roper is bringing a bit of that SEC flavor to North Carolina State.
Marcus covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.
