Jan. 3, 2000
Columbia, Mo. - University of Missouri Head Football Coach Larry Smith has completed the reorganization of his coaching staff by hiring Bill Cubit and Sam Pittman from Western Michigan University to coach quarterbacks and the offensive line, respectively, and by promoting Chris Tabor from a graduate assistant position to be the Tigers' new running backs coach.
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| Bill Cubit |
Smith also announced the departure of co-offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Andy Moeller from Mizzou to accept an assistant coaching position at his alma mater, the University of Michigan.
Cubit will also share MU's offensive coordinator role with wide receivers coach Andy Hill.
"I'm confident that we have been able to hire three outstanding assistant coaches who will most definitely come in and help restructure our offense," Smith said. "All three are excellent position coaches who also bring with them a wide variety of experiences that will help the overall development of the football program at the University of Missouri."
Smith said that MU's two holdovers on the offensive side of the ball - Hill and Corby Smith - will retain their position reponsibilities, wide receivers and tight ends, respectively. Corby Smith will also assume additional duties coaching special teams.
"We're all sorry to see Andy Moeller leave," Smith said. "He's done a fantastic job coaching our offensive line, and played a very significant role in the successes that we've experienced here at MU. We wish him well in his future endeavors."
Cubit and Pittman come to Missouri from Western Michigan, where they were instrumental in putting together a Broncos offense that set 26 school records last season. Cubit was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Western Michigan the last three seasons, a period during which the Broncos had a cumulative record of 22-12.
This past season, with quarterback Tim Lester at the helm, Western Michigan averaged 413 yards of total offense per game and scored 373 points. Cubit was a nominee for the AFCA Assistant Coach of the Year award and the Broyles Award.
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| Sam Pittman |
Cubit, a native of Sharon Hill, Pa., is a 1975 graduate of the University of Delaware. Prior to his stint at Western Michigan under Head Coach Gary Darnell, Cubit was the head coach at Widener University from 1992-96, compiling a 34-18-1 record. He's also coached at Akron (1990-91), Florida (1989-90), Central Florida (1983-85) and Swarthmore (1975-76). On the high school level, he was the head coach at Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pa., in 1982, and at Martin County High School in Stuart, Fla., from 1986-88.
Pittman was at Western Michigan for only the past year, after two years as the offensive line coach at Oklahoma. A native of Grove, Okla., and a graduate of Pittsburg State University, Pittman coached on the high school level in Missouri from 1987-91, at Princeton and Trenton. He moved on to Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College as the offensive line coach in 1991, and was the head coach there in 1992 and '93, when Mizzou's Andy Hill was his offensive coordinator and eventually succeeded him as head coach in 1994. Pittman moved on to Northern Illinois as offensive line coach from 1994-95, and was the tackles/tight ends coach at Cincinnati in 1996.
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| Chris Tabor |