Appalachian State head football coach Eliah Drinkwitz added veteran administrator Andy Lutz as Assistant Athletics Director for Football Operations to his first Mountaineer staff on Jan. 11, 2019.
A college football athletics administrator since 1991, Lutz arrives in Boone after six seasons as a member of Georgia Tech's football staff, including the last four as director of player personnel. The 2014 Yellow Jackets were ACC runners-up and won the Orange Bowl over Mississippi State.
No stranger to championship and postseason success, Lutz has been part of staffs that have won conference titles (Auburn – SEC, Nevada – Big West) and division titles (Georgia Tech – ACC Coastal, Auburn – SEC West). He has contributed to a total of eight bowl wins at three different schools, including wins in the Orange, Sugar and Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
Lutz served as assistant athletics director for football operations at Texas Tech from 2010-12. In that role, he oversaw all facets of Texas Tech football's recruiting efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the Red Raider program. The 2010 squad won eight games and beat Northwestern in the Ticket City Bowl.
From 1998-2008, Lutz was the assistant to the head football coach at Auburn, where his duties included day-to-day operations for recruiting and personnel. During that time, he contributed to a 13-0 SEC Championship season in 2004 that finished with a win over Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl, as well as an 11-2 season in 2006 that culminated with a Cotton Bowl win over Nebraska.
Before his decade-long stint at Auburn, Lutz spent two years (1996-98) at Ole Miss as assistant to the athletics director for recruiting, helping coordinate the recruiting processes for all Rebels' sports. Lutz was promoted to that position after a year as a graduate assistant at Ole Miss.
Lutz began his collegiate administration career in 1991 at his alma mater, the University of the Pacific. After three years at Pacific, he was a graduate assistant at Nevada in 1994.
From 1991-2001, Lutz also worked outside the college athletics' arena as clinic director for the Frank Glazier Football Clinics.
Lutz holds bachelor's (communications/public relations, 1991) and master's (educational counseling, 1994) degrees from Pacific. He was a three-year football letterman for the Tigers from 1989-91 after beginning his collegiate career at San Joaquin Delta (Calif.) College, where he was a first-team all-conference and second-team all-state defensive back as a freshman in 1987.
He and his wife, Brandy, have one daughter, Aberle.
