Bart Andrus

Bart Andrus (born March 30, 1958, in Los Angeles, California) is the current Offensive Coordinator for the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League.He is the former head coach of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Previously, he was the offensive assistant for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League in the 2008 season and the head coach of the Amsterdam Admirals of NFL Europe from 2001 until 2007, when the NFL Europa ceased operations.

History

Andrus graduated from the University of Montana, where he played quarterback for four years from 1978 to 1981. One of Andrus' earliest experiences with coaching was when he served for three years as head coach at St. Patrick High School in Vallejo, California. After this, in 1984, he went to work as graduate assistant at Brigham Young University, followed by serving as offensive coordinator at three different schools: Humboldt State (1986–1989), Montana State (1990–1991) and Southern Utah University (1993–1995).

After this Bart Andrus continued his — now 25 year running — coaching career and advanced to coaching at collegiate level when he served as head coach at Rocky Mountain College for one season in 1996. For this he received the 1996 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Coach of the Year Award because of his efforts in restructuring a struggling program that had not managed to win a game in four years. With Andrus at...
Read More