Austin Maus will be serving as Assistant Director of Player Personnel for the first time this season, as he was a Wyoming graduate assistant for his third consecutive year in 2023. Maus was the Offensive Quality Control Graduate Assistant for Wyoming in 2021 and has been the Offensive Graduate Assistant Coach in 2022 and ‘23.
As an offensive graduate assistant, Maus assists players in skill development, breaks down weekly opponent film, leads scout team meetings with Wyoming’s scout team players and coaches them during practice to simulate opponents’ plays. He also helps create opponent scouting reports, generates practice scripts and daily drawings for position groups, participates in game-plan meetings with the coaching staff each week and meets with prospective student-athletes on recruiting visits.
In 2022, he was part of a Wyoming football staff that developed a team that entered the 2022 college football season as the fourth youngest team in the country but went on to record a 7-6 record, finish second in the Mountain West Conference Mountain Division and earn a spot in the Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl. Along the way the ‘22 Pokes defeated rivals Air Force, Colorado State, Hawai’i, Utah State and American Athletic Conference member Tulsa. Wyoming’s 7-6 record gave them their fifth winning season in the past seven seasons. Â
In 2021, Maus assisted the tight ends/fullbacks coach in practice preparation, creating practice plans and compiling scouting materials on upcoming opponents to provide to the Cowboy coaching staff as they prepared game plans. Maus was also involved in providing information to the coaching staff on game days.
The 2021 Wyoming Cowboys posted a 7-6 record and won their third consecutive bowl game, with a convincing 52-38 win over Kent State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. The 52 points scored in the bowl victory was a school record for a bowl game. Wyoming scored 40 or more points four times during the season in victories at Northern Illinois (50 points), vs. Ball State (45), at eventual MW champion Utah State (44) and vs. Kent State.
Before coming to Wyoming in 2021, Maus was a recruiting assistant with the University of Iowa football program from August 2017 to March 2019 and then became a student assistant with Hawkeye Football from March 2019 through June 2021. Â
Maus earned his bachelor’s degree in management with a minor in sports and recreation management from Iowa in May 2021.
