Rutgers offensive coordinator Jerry Kill announced that he was retiring on Tuesday due to health reasons. While it’s certainly not an ideal situation that head coach Chris Ash is looking for his third offensive coordinator in as many seasons, which will also be the ninth in nine seasons for the football program overall, this wasn’t a surprise. Ash has proven in his career, including his time at Rutgers, that he is detail oriented and prides himself with preparation, so the positive of this situation is he has already been working on a replacement for some time.
The public speculation that Kill might step down started in earnest over a week ago after this tweet by a Minnesota reporter:
And then when Football Scoop, a site dedicated to coaching searches, reported that head coach Chris Ash was interviewing candidates to replace Kill, it seemed inevitable that it was only a matter of time for a change to be made.