{"id":388988,"date":"2026-01-05T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388988\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:05:07","slug":"report-purdue-football-hires-associate-director-of-scouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388988\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Purdue football hires associate director of scouting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/barry-odom-133371\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Odom<\/a> has added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/xavier-goldsmith-122010\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Goldsmith<\/a> of Colorado State as associate director of scouting, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballscoop.com\/2026\/01\/04\/sources-purdue-nabbing-experienced-personnel-pro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report by FootballScoop.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Goldsmith was director of scouting for the offense for Colorado State also has worked at Utah and Western Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Odom recently saw Nate Dennison (defense scouting) depart the personnel office to take a job at Louisville. And Tyler Miller (offense scouting), who worked alongside Dennison, also has left to be director of player personnel at Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>Goldsmith is the second hire Odom has made to his personnel staff since the fall, when Butler Benton was hired from UCLA to be executive director of player personnel. <\/p>\n<p>Goldsmith is a native of Detroit, like Benton. Goldsmith began his playing career at Colorado State before transferring to Idaho State.<\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/boards\/forums\/knucklehead-central.157\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join the discussion on Knucklehead Central<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/purdue-boilermakers\/join\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to GoldandBlack.com for 50% off<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Goldandblackcom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to GoldandBlack.com\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Odom has added Xavier Goldsmith of Colorado State as associate director of scouting, according to a report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-388988","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\/388988","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=388988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}