Washington State needed to make yet another head coaching hire after losing another leader of its program to the Power Four.
From Mizzou to Wazzu, the Cougars are reportedly hiring Missouri offensive coordinator Kirby Moore to be their next head coach.
This is after Jimmy Rogers went to Iowa State. He was at Wazzu for one season after replacing Jake Dickert, who went to Wake Forest.
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This season, Missouri is 27th in the FBS in total offense with 429.3 yards per game and 32nd in scoring offense with 32.2 points per game. He’s also been the Tigers’ quarterbacks coach and during his tenure worked with Beau Pribula and Brady Cook, who’s second all-time at Missouri with 26 wins as Mizzou’s starter.
Moore has been Missouri’s OC and QBs coach since 2023, but he’s from Prosser, Washington, and has coached in the state of Washington before. He was a graduate assistant at UW from 2015-16.
He was also an offensive coordinator and QBs coach (2022), wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator (2020-21), and WRs coach (2017-19) at Fresno State. He began his collegiate coaching career at the College of Idaho working with wide receivers in 2014.
Kirby Moore was a starting wide receiver at Boise State, where he played with his older brother, Kellen Moore, the Heisman Trophy finalist who is now the head coach for the New Orleans Saints.
