{"id":322844,"date":"2025-11-30T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/322844\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:06:08","slug":"jamarcus-shephards-oregon-state-football-staff-taking-shape-with-alabama-hires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/322844\/","title":{"rendered":"JaMarcus Shephard’s Oregon State football staff taking shape with Alabama hires"},"content":{"rendered":"

PULLMAN, Wash. \u2014 New head coach JaMarcus Shephard<\/a>\u2019s staff at Oregon State<\/a> is taking shape, and it includes several names from his time at Alabama.<\/p>\n

According to a source with knowledge of the forthcoming hires, Shephard\u2019s football general manager will be Alabama associate director of player personnel Eron Hodges. Having a general manager on staff was a crucial piece of Shephard\u2019s negotiations with OSU, and Hodges brings a breadth of experience at several high-level programs.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Shephard will bring on Mitch Dahlen as quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator, the source said. Dahlen is currently the assistant quarterbacks coach and assistant offensive coordinator at Alabama.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear at this point who Dahlen\u2019s co-OC will be, as Shephard prioritizes hiring out his defensive staff first.<\/p>\n

Torrey Gill, a familiar face to Beavers fans, will also join Shephard on the offensive staff as a wide receivers coach, according to the source. Gill is currently an offensive analyst and assistant wide receivers coach for the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n

Gill is a one-time graduate assistant at Oregon State who also served as an assistant wide receivers coach and interim running backs coach for the Beavers from 2022 to 2024.<\/p>\n

More names are expected to emerge in the coming days as Shephard builds out his staff and manages all the forthcoming changes to OSU\u2019s roster. Whether additional staff or players from the Alabama program will join him in Corvallis is unclear.<\/p>\n

Shephard\u2019s introductory press conference is scheduled for noon on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PULLMAN, Wash. \u2014 New head coach JaMarcus Shephard\u2019s staff at Oregon State is taking shape, and it includes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-322844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}