Aaron Roderick | |
Current Title: | Offensive coordinator |
Current Team: | BYU |
Current Conference: | Big 12 |
Birth Date: | December 20, 1972 |
Birth Place: | Bountiful, Utah |
Player Years1: | 1994–1995 |
Player Team1: | Ricks |
Player Years2: | 1996–1998 |
Player Team2: | BYU |
Player Positions: | Wide receiver |
Coach Years1: | 1999–2001 |
Coach Team1: | BYU (GA) |
Coach Years2: | 2002 |
Coach Team2: | Snow (RB) |
Coach Years3: | 2003–2004 |
Coach Team3: | Southern Utah (OC/QB/RC) |
Coach Years4: | 2005–2009 |
Coach Team4: | Utah (WR) |
Coach Years5: | 2010 |
Coach Team5: | Utah (Co-OC/WR) |
Coach Years6: | 2011 |
Coach Team6: | Utah (WR) |
Coach Years7: | 2012–2013 |
Coach Team7: | Utah (PGC/WR) |
Coach Years8: | 2014 |
Coach Team8: | Utah (QB) |
Coach Years9: | 2015–2016 |
Coach Team9: | Utah (co-OC/QB) |
Coach Years10: | 2017 |
Coach Team10: | BYU (offensive consultant) |
Coach Years11: | 2018–2020 |
Coach Team11: | BYU (PGC/QB) |
Coach Years12: | 2021–present |
Coach Team12: | BYU (OC/QB) |
Aaron Roderick (December 20, 1972) is an American college football coach and former wide receiver who is currently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Brigham Young University (BYU). He was previously BYU's passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2018 to 2020 and an offensive consultant in 2017. Roderick was previously in other assistant coaching roles, including at the University of Utah from 2005 to 2016 and Southern Utah University (SUU) from 2003 to 2004.
In 1999, Roderick began his coaching career at BYU, his alma mater, as a graduate assistant for the offense under head coach LaVell Edwards. When Edwards retired as BYU's head coach in 2001, Roderick was retained as a graduate assistant under new head coach Gary Crowton.
In 2002, Roderick was hired as the running backs coach at Snow College.
In 2003, Roderick was named the offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator at SUU.
In 2005, Roderick joined the University of Utah as the wide receivers coach. Before the 2009 season, Utah offered Roderick a promotion to co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach and he briefly accepted before opting to go to the University of Washington to serve as the wide receivers coach. A few weeks later, Roderick returned to Utah, citing personal reasons, to be the wide receivers coach.[1] [2] In 2010, Roderick was promoted to Utah's co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach.[3]
In 2017, Roderick returned to BYU as an offensive consultant. In 2018, Roderick was hired as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach under head coach Kalani Sitake. In 2019, Roderick was a 2019 Broyles Award nominee, an annual award given to the nation's top assistant coach.[4] On January 4, 2021, Roderick was promoted to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, replacing Jeff Grimes, who left to become the offensive coordinator at Baylor University.[5]
Roderick graduated from BYU in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in sociology, and earned a master's degree in sociology at BYU in 2002, while working as the running backs coach at Snow College. Roderick is married to Ellen McConnelland has three children.