Tyler Allen is in his first season as the quarterbacks coach for West Virginia, replacing Sean Reagan, who left for the same position at Troy.
Coach Allen gets to work with standout quarterback Garrett Greene as well as Nicco Marchiol and is looking forward to working with them.
A big talking point of Garrett Greene over the last year has been his accuracy. Tyler Allen explained what it will take for Greene to become more accurate of a passer and an even better player.
“He’s been getting all this PFF hype and all this hype on Twitter how great he is,” Tyler Allen said. “He’s got a lot to improve on and he can make a huge jump and we know that, he knows that. He was the 101st quarterback in the country in completion at 53 percent.”
“This past January, we sat down. He watched, I made him go get a whole cut up of all of his bad throws and his good throws from this year and we went through and watched them together.”
Tyler Allen talked about Greene’s drop mechanics and how they were inconsistent when he was out there making bad throws. He also talked about how he is helping Greene work on his ball placement and touch.
The two happen to have a length relationship with one another dating back to when Tyler Allen was a graduate assistant at Troy in 2018.
“When [Neal] Brown hired me, we were recruiting Garrett when he was at Chiles High School in Tallahassee. I’ve known him since 2018, so we’re going on six years now that I’ve built a relationship with him.”
Tyler Allen spent some time talking about Nicco Marchiol and how he is helping him develop his mental part of the game.
“The mental part of the game like from when he was in high school was all about looking at receivers. It gets him into trouble a lot of times because at this level, you can’t just look at a receiver, the safety is going to come over and he’s going to throw a pick.”
Allen has spent time in practice helping Marchiol become better at reading defenses and seeing safeties. Marchiol took one more sack than Garrett Greene in 2023 despite only seeing action for most of two games, and Tyler Allen is also helping him with his pocket awareness.
Tyler Allen began his coaching career at LSU in 2016, and caught the attention of current West Virginia head coach Neal Brown when Brown was the head coach at Troy and he led them to an upset road win over then 25th ranked LSU in 2017. Brown hired him as a graduate assistant at Troy and while he had an opportunity to follow his former LSU offensive coordinator Matt Canada to Maryland, he opted to stay at Troy.
When Neal Brown left for the West Virginia job in 2019, he brought Allen along with him as a graduate assistant. After one season as a GA, Allen left to become the quarterbacks coach at Jacksonville State. He spent two years there and after a brief stint as an assistant at Rice, he returned to West Virginia first to serve as an offensive analyst and now is serving as quarterbacks coach.
