Dino Babers is returning to Arizona as offensive coordinator, sources confirmed to FootballScoop on Thursday.
I'll be his second stint in Tucson. He was there from 1995-2000, serving as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the final three of his six seasons. In 2000, when Babers was U of A's offensive coordinator, he worked above a 27-year-old GA named Brent Brennan.
Arizona represents Babers's first OC appointment in more than 20 years. He left Tucson to serve as Texas A&M's offensive coordinator from 2001-02. It'll be his first job as an assistant since 2011, when he was Baylor's special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach under Art Briles, and before landing the head coaching job at Eastern Illinois. He'd go on to lead EIU, Bowling Green and Syracuse for the past 13 seasons.
The return to Arizona represents the 15th move in the former Hawaii player's well-traveled career. Babers entered coaching at his alma mater in 1984.
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