A veteran of college football administration since 1991, Andy Lutz is in his second year serving as Mizzou’s Director of Football Operations, and his third season overall working with head coach Eliah Drinkwitz. After working as assistant athletic director for football operations at Appalachian State in 2019, Lutz came to Mizzou in December 2019, shortly after Drinkwitz was named MU’s 33rd head coach.
Lutz first joined Drinkwitz at App State in January 2019. In his time in Boone, N.C., Lutz helped oversee operations for a Mountaineer team that won the Sun Belt Conference title and finished with a program-best 13-1 record.
No stranger to championship and postseason success, Lutz has been part of staffs that have won multiple conference titles (Auburn – SEC, Appalachian State – Sun Belt, Nevada – Big West) and division titles (Georgia Tech – ACC Coastal, Auburn – SEC West, Appalachian State – Sun Belt East). He has contributed to a total of nine bowl wins at four different schools, including wins in the Orange, Sugar and Chick-fil-A Peach bowls.
Prior to App State, Lutz spent six seasons as a member of Georgia Tech’s football staff, including his last four as director of player personnel. The 2014 Yellow Jackets were ACC runners-up and won the Orange Bowl over Mississippi State.
Lutz served as assistant athletics director for football operations at Texas Tech from 2010-12. In that role, he oversaw all facets of Texas Tech football’s recruiting efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the Red Raider program. The 2010 squad won eight games and beat Northwestern in the Ticket City Bowl.
From 1998-2008, Lutz was the assistant to the head football coach at Auburn, where his duties included day-to-day operations for recruiting and personnel. During that time, he contributed to a 13-0 SEC Championship season in 2004 that finished with a win over Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl, as well as an 11-2 season in 2006 that culminated with a Cotton Bowl win over Nebraska.
Before his decade-long stint at Auburn, Lutz spent two years (1996-98) at Ole Miss as assistant to the athletics director for recruiting, helping coordinate the recruiting processes for all Rebels’ sports. Lutz was promoted to that position after a year as a graduate assistant at Ole Miss.
Lutz began his collegiate administration career in 1991 at his alma mater, the University of the Pacific. After three years at Pacific, he was a graduate assistant at Nevada in 1994. From 1991-2001, Lutz also worked outside the college athletics’ arena as director for the Frank Glazier Football Clinics.
Lutz holds bachelor’s (communications/public relations, 1991) and master’s (educational counseling, 1994) degrees from Pacific. He began his collegiate career at San Joaquin Delta (Calif.) College, where he was a first-team all-conference and second-team all-state defensive back as a freshman in 1987. He and his wife, Brandy, have one daughter, Aberle.
