ContributorsPublishersAdvertisers

Mike Yurcich

avatar
Mike Yurcich
Mike Yurcich (born c. 1975) is an American football coach who currently serves as offensive coordinator at the University of Texas. He was the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the Ohio State University for the 2019 season. Yurcich was the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State University from 2013 to 2018. He was previously the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Saint Francis, Edinboro, and Shippensburg. Yurcich also spent some time at Indiana as a graduate assistant. Some of the prominent players Yurcich has helped develop include Trevor Harris, Zach Zulli, J. W. Walsh, Mason Rudolph, Taylor Cornelius, and Justin Fields.
Expandarrow_down
Born
1975-11-05
Birth Place
Euclid,_Ohio
Expandarrow_down
Norristown Times Herald

Penn State offense looks to improve in 2nd season with Mike Yurcich

Brenton Strange is one of the Penn State football players who have played for three offensive coordinators in the last three seasons. But now he’s working with the same coordinator, Mike Yurcich, for the second straight spring and he’s noticing a difference. “It’s definitely been an advantage to...
STATE COLLEGE, PA
Picture for Penn State offense looks to improve in 2nd season with Mike Yurcich
RELATED CHANNELS
NewsBreak
Sports
NewsBreak
College Sports
NewsBreak
Wrestling
Sports
Penn State University
nittanysportsnow.com

A History of Mike Yurcich and Quarterbacks

Mike Yurcich’s short time at Penn State has been disappointing on the field. Yurcich came to Happy Valley as a respected offensive mind, but only five Big Ten teams scored fewer points than Penn State did in year one under Yurcich. In Yurcich’s tenure at Penn State, however, he’s...
STATE COLLEGE, PA
PennLive.com

Penn State’s 2021 offense in the crosshairs: How bad were the Lions and what can Mike Yurcich do to fix them? Blue-White Breakdown

Penn State’s running game struggled to make big plays during last year’s 7-6 campaign and offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich has little interest these days in reviewing what went wrong. In this episode of the Blue-White Breakdown podcast, PennLive’s David Jones and Bob Flounders review some recent comments made...
PENN, PA
RELATED PUBLISHERS
Publisher
USA TODAY Sports Media Group
On3.com

Watch Penn State coordinator Mike Yurcich talk quarterbacks, offensive line, running backs, and more

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich held his first news conference of the spring here on Wednesday night. Yurcich met with reporters after head coach James Franklin’s team wrapped up its fifth practice of March. The Lions have just nine more drill days to go before closing things out with the Blue-White game on April 23. That’s set for 2 p.m. inside Beaver Stadium.
STATE COLLEGE, PA
247Sports

Coordinator Q&A: Mike Yurcich talks Penn State offense, QB progress, five-star freshmen

Shortly after Penn State concluded its fifth spring football practice, second-year Nittany Lions offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike Yurcich met with a media scrum for the first time since an Outback Bowl trip to Tampa. Considering the return of sixth-year senior quarterback Sean Clifford, the recent addition of five-star recruits Drew Allar and Nick Singleton, and the need to improve upon 2021 results, there was plenty to discuss.
TAMPA, FL
PennLive.com

Young Penn State DB is flashing in spring practice; Mike Yurcich talks Sean Clifford and young quarterbacks, and more

Today’s Penn State football news headlines feature updates from spring practice, a young defensive back standing out, and thoughts from James Franklin and Mike Yurcich on quarterback Sean Clifford and the Nittany Lions offense. Redshirt freshman safety Zakee Wheatley is “standing out” this spring as he makes the transition...
HARRISBURG, PA
PennLive.com

What Penn State’s Sean Clifford can improve in Year 2 under Mike Yurcich; young QBs doing ‘excellent job’

STATE COLLEGE — Sean Clifford might be returning to Penn State for his sixth college season, but it marks just the second time in his career that he’ll be working with the same offensive coordinator for the second year in a row. In Clifford’s first three years as a starter, he had three different voices calling plays for him.
STATE COLLEGE, PA