Despite very successful special teams production this past season from Josh Conklin's groups at Arkansas State, Butch Jones is set to have a new special teams coordinator moving forward.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Dakota Tillman is being promoted to the role of special teams coordinator.
Previously Tillman had spent multiple seasons at Arkansas State as the program's special teams quality control coach.
Set to become one of college football's youngest coordinators at the FBS level, the 27-year-old Tillman is a former high school coach in Georgia who kicked collegiately at NCAA Division II program Limestone in South Carolina.
Arkansas State posted an eight-win season in 2024, its most under Jones and made a second-straight bowl appearance. Jones was awarded a contract extension last month from the school.
The Red Wolves have a pair of daunting, early-season non-conference contests in the first month of the 2025 season.
After opening against FCS program Southeast Missouri, Arkansas State then faces Sam Pittman's Arkansas Razorbacks in Little Rock, Ark., and then are scheduled to host Big 12 runner-up Iowa State Sept. 13 in Jonesboro.