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Koetter lands in Jacksonville
The Jacksonville Jaguars hired former Arizona State coach Dirk Koetter as their offensive coordinator Monday, giving them a third different play-caller in five seasons under coach Jack Del Rio.
Koetter replaces Carl Smith, who was one of five assistants fired last week after the Jaguars dropped three in a row to end the season, finished 8-8 and missed the playoffs for the sixth time in seven years.
Koetter spent the last six years at Arizona State and was 40-34. He was fired after the Wildcats finished 7-6 and lost 41-24 to Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl. Prior to taking the Arizona State job, Koetter was head coach at Boise State for three seasons and went 26-10.
College basketball
Beavers take on Jayhawks center
The Oregon State Beavers have added basketball player C.J. Giles, kicked off the Kansas team in November after a student said he dragged her from his apartment by her feet and hit her.
Beavers coach Jay John said in a Monday press release that Oregon State recruited Giles in high school, at Seattle’s Rainier Beach, “so we feel like we know him very well. He understands that he has been given a second chance and I am confident he will make the most of it.”
The university quoted Giles as saying he was “young and immature” at Kansas. “Now I’m here and I’m going to grow up.”
Giles is 6-foot-11 and 240 pounds.
College sports
Idaho State icon Dubby Holt dies
Milton “Dubby” Holt, whose name is painted in towering black letters on Idaho State University’s field house, has died in Pocatello from complications of pneumonia, the university announced. He was 92.
Holt, who died Sunday, worked in the athletics department at the Pocatello campus for 34 years as head coach of boxing and track and field, and as athletic director.
He coached the 1956 U.S. Olympic boxing team, even though he never stepped in the ring as a boxer. Though he never learned to swim, he also led the swim team to a conference title.
Holt retired in 1979. He led the Bengals to 13 consecutive Rocky Mountain and Big Sky conference championships in track and NCAA boxing titles in 1953 and 1957.