Utah State linebacker Kyle Gallagher. Photo courtesy of Utah State University. LOGAN, Utah – Kyle Gallagher, who played linebacker for Utah State from 2007-11, died last week as a result of a car crash. He was 33. Gallagher appeared in 49 games for the Aggies, recording 291 total tackles – 133 of the solo variety. During his junior and senior campaigns in 2010 and 2011, Gallagher finished second only to Bobby Wagner, who has been named All-Pro nine times throughout his illustrious NFL career, in total tackles with 91 and 100, respectively. The native of Woodland, California, helped Utah State end a 14-year bowl drought as the Aggies played Ohio in the 2011 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Gallagher finished with a team-high nine tackles, including 0.5 tackles for loss, against the Bobcats. Gallagher and the Aggies recorded seven wins in 2011, marking the first time since 1979 that Utah State had finished a regular season with that many victories. Source link

Photo by Lorene Hale LOGAN, Utah – Utah State’s 2023 Mountain West football schedule was announced Thursday by the conference office as the Aggies enter their 11th season in the league. In all, USU’s eight conference games will be spread out over 11 weeks from Sept. 16 through Nov. 25.   Thursday’s release represents the first phase in the 2023 football schedule process. Mountain West national television partners CBS Sports and Fox Sports will now initiate a selection procedure, which will include the shifting of particular games to non-Saturday dates. That will be followed by the identification of network outlets and kick times.   The Mountain West is debuting a three-year schedule rotation where, within Conference play, each institution will face two opponents annually and six other teams on an alternating basis. Throughout the cycle, all institutions will play each other at least twice, including once at home and once on the road.   Utah State’s 2023 Mountain West schedule will include home games against Colorado State (10/7), Fresno State (10/14), Nevada (11/11) and Boise State (11/18), and road games against Air Force (9/16), San José State (10/21), San Diego State (11/4) and New Mexico (11/25). USU will also have one

LOGAN, Utah – Joe Cauthen (Cath-en) has been named Utah State’s defensive coordinator, it was announced Friday by head football coach Blake Anderson. Cauthen has worked with Anderson before as he was Arkansas State’s defensive coordinator from 2014-18, helping the Red Wolves to a pair of conference championships and five-consecutive bowl games. Overall, Cauthen has 33 years of coaching experience, including 27 at the collegiate level, and is entering his 22nd year as a defensive coordinator. He has been part of five conference championship teams, including one national championship squad, and has coached in seven bowl games. Cauthen comes to Utah State after spending the 2022 season as the defensive coordinator at Stephen F. Austin, where he helped the Lumberjacks win the Western Athletic Conference Championship. Cauthen’s defense ranked among the best at the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level last season as it forced 19 turnovers with 11 interceptions and eight fumbles and scored a pair of defensive touchdowns. Under Cauthen, Stephen F. Austin had nine defenders earn all-WAC honors, including a pair of All-Americans in defensive linemen BJ Thompson and Edward Bobino. Cauthen spent the 2021 season as the defensive coordinator at Buffalo, where the Bulls ranked 14th nationally in

LOGAN, Utah – Cooper Bassett has been named Utah State’s offensive line coach, it was announced Thursday by Aggie head football coach Blake Anderson. Bassett, who has 10 years of collegiate coaching experience, has been a part of two divisional championship teams and has coached in three bowl games. Bassett comes to Utah State after spending the 2022 season as the offensive line coach at Sam Houston State, where the Bearkats rushed for an average of 162.3 yards per game (4.4 yards per attempt) and allowed just 18 sacks in nine outings to rank first in the Western Athletic Conference in sacks allowed and second in rushing offense. At SHSU, Bassett coached Jordan Boatman to second-team all-conference honors. Prior to Sam Houston State, Bassett spent the 2021 season directing the offensive line at Southeast Missouri where his unit helped pave the way for a 1,000-yard rusher in Geno Hess. Bassett also coached a pair of offensive linemen to all-conference accolades in Nate Korte and Zack Gieg. Bassett also spent four years (2017-20) as the offensive line coach at West Texas A&M, including two seasons as the running game coordinator. In 2020, Bassett’s offensive line paved the way for a West Texas A&M

Utah State Spring Football Scrimmage 3/26/21 LOGAN – Utah State’s growing list of offseason departures haven’t been limited to just players. This morning ESPN and NFL Network reported that Aggies defensive coordinator Ephraim Banda will be hired by the Cleveland Browns to be their coach of safeties. Banda had recently been promoted to the position associate head coach in addition to being the DC. He spent two seasons with the Aggies, a span in which the team ranked fourth in the country in total tackles for loss and 35th in points allowed. The loss is yet another hit to head coach Blake Anderson’s coaching staff who’s already lost offensive coordinator Anthony Tucker, who left to take the position of wide receivers coach at Indiana. The Aggies reportedly plan to fill Tucker’s role by having Anderson call plays more on offense along giving wide receivers coach Kyle Cefalo the additional title of co-offensive coordinator. Along with Banda, the Aggies have lost four starters on offense and multiple other key rotation players either through graduation (Hunter Reynolds) or the transfer portal (Byron Vaughns, Daniel Grzesiak, Patrick Joyner Jr., Phillip Paea, Tavian Coleman). Free News Delivery by Email Would you like to have

Blake Anderson on the USU sideline during their game vs Air Force on Oct. 8, 2022. Photo by Lorene Hale. LOGAN – On national signing day Utah State football announced its full 2023 signing class comprising of 42 players, including 23 incoming high school athletes, 16 junior college transfers and three four-year institution transfers. This is one of the largest signing classes for Blake Anderson in his time as a head coach. Last year the Aggies brought in 30 players, including a mere two junior college transfers. This February USU has added 16 junior college guys. A big part of having this many players in the class is due to a waver that has allowed programs to sign more than the previous maximum of 25 signees per class. Many of these players were previously announced as signees at the end of the early signing period. In all, 19 new players were announced including 12 high school athletes, six junior college transfers and one four-year transfer. Anderson said they are “99.9 percent done with the class” but at the beginning of his comments did acknowledge the reality that the transfer portal makes adding more players during spring a likely possibility. Here