Noel Mazzone Noel Mazzone ( born March 21 , 1957 ) is an American football coach and former player in the United States . He is currently the offensive coordinator at UCLA , a position he had held since before the start of the 2012 season . Early life and playing career . Mazzone grew up in Raton , New Mexico and went on to play college football as a quarterback under coach Bill Mondt at the University of New Mexico from 1975 to 1979 . Coaching career . After graduation , Mazzone started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at New Mexico under head coach Joe Morrison who had succeeded Mondt in 1980 . Coach Mazzone also spent one season ( 1981 ) at Boulder High School coaching future University of Colorado Greats Tom Gebhardt and Eric McCarty . In 1982 , Mazzone received his first full - time position , coaching quarterbacks and receivers under Leon Fuller at Colorado State . After 5 years at CSU , Mazzone was hired away by Jim Wacker to serve as quarterbacks coach at Texas Christian . When Wacker left TCU for the head coaching position at the University of Minnesota in 1992 , Mazzone followed Wacker to serve the same position with the Gophers . In 1995 , Mazzone was hired as offensive coordinator by Tommy Tuberville , who had just become head coach at Ole Miss . Tuberville left Ole Miss for Auburn in 1999 , taking Mazzone with him . However , after the 2001 season Tuberville choose to replace Mazzone with Bobby Petrino . Oregon State head coach Dennis Erickson then hired Mazzone as offensive coordinator for the 2002 season . While Erickson left the collegiate ranks to coach the San Francisco 49ers , Mazzone chose to remain in college football , becoming offensive coordinator under Chuck Amato at North Carolina State where he coached Philip Rivers , who would be the fourth overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft . In 2004 , Mazzone returned to Ole Miss to serve as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under head coach Ed Orgeron . He was fired as offensive coordinator at the end of the 2004 season but remained an employee at Ole Miss for contractual reasons . In 2006 , Mazzone took his first position in the NFL when new head coach Eric Mangini hired him as wide receivers coach for the New York Jets . Mangini was fired by the Jets following the 2008 season and Mazzone ' s contract with the Jets was allowed to expire . In January 2009 , Mazzone was under consideration by Randy Shannon for the vacant position as offensive coordinator for the Miami Hurricanes , and in February of that year was under consideration by Dave Wannstedt as offensive coordinator for the University of Pittsburgh . He was also being considered for the job coaching quarterbacks under Mangini with the Cleveland Browns . But , instead of going to coach for any college he decided to assume the duties of offensive coordinator for Panther Creek High School in Cary , NC under Wayne Bragg . On January 4 , 2010 , he was hired as offensive coordinator at Arizona State University , where he is reunited with Dennis Erickson , who he previously worked under at Oregon State University . On January 6th 2012 , It was announced he would be joining Jim L . Mora ' s Coaching staff at UCLA as Offensive Coordinator .