Originally published Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM
PrintReceivers coach Aaron Roderick will stay at Utah
New Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian thought he was done putting together his staff of assistants. Instead, he is still looking...
Seattle Times staff reporter; Seattle Times staff reporter
New Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian thought he was done putting together his staff of assistants.
Instead, he is still looking for a receivers coach after learning Monday that Aaron Roderick has decided to return to his old job at Utah.
Roderick agreed last week to a two-year contract worth $200,000 per season.
But UW announced Monday that Roderick was spurning the job for personal reasons, and later it was announced he was returning to Utah, where he had spent the previous four years as an assistant.
Roderick told The Salt Lake Tribune that "I just love Utah. The longer I was up there, the more and more I wanted to be at Utah. I went to Sark and said, 'Look, I'm cheating you right now. My heart isn't in this. You deserve better.' "
Roderick said Sarkisian was understanding. The two were teammates at Brigham Young in 1996.
Roderick said it was also a small factor that his wife is an assistant soccer coach at Utah and there would have been no position for her at UW.
Note
• Mike Anderson will be UW's graduate assistant for defense and Klayton Adams the graduate assistant for offense next year.
Adams was an assistant at Western Washington last year. Anderson was a graduate assistant at Idaho.
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