Miami is expected to hire Army offensive line coach Mike Viti, sources confirmed to FootballScoop on Monday. ESPN first reported the news.
Viti will coach the Hurricanes' tight ends, sources say. He'll replace Cody Woodiel, who took the same job on Pete Golding's new Ole Miss staff.
Viti and Mike Drinkall shared the FootballScoop Offensive Line Coach of the Year award in 2024, as decided by prior winners. Drinkall is now the head coach at Central Michigan. Army won the Joe Moore Award that year, a season in which the Black Knights rushed for 300 yards -- the only FBS team in the past three seasons to do so -- while scoring 31.1 points per game and going 12-2 with an American Athletic Conference championship. Eleven percent of Army's rushes went for zero or negative yardage, the fewest by an FBS team since 2020.
Also Army's associate head coach, Viti played for the Black Knights, graduated from West Point in 2008, and joined the program in 2015 as director of high school and alumni relations. He coached fullbacks before moving to the offensive line, and in 2019 won the Armed Forces Merit Award, presented annually by the Football Writers Association of America for impact on college football by a former member of the armed services. A former Army Captain who earned a Bronze Star and a Combat Action Badge as a platoon leader in Operation Enduring Freedom, Viti founded co-founded the Legacies Alive Foundation, which aims to strengthen and support Gold Star families.
Viti joins a staff that already features two of the best offensive line coaches in college football in head coach Mario Cristobal and assistant head coach/offensive line coach Alex Mirabal. The Hurricanes led the nation in scoring in 2024, and reached the national title game in 2025.