Report says ASU's Jack Nudo to be full-time special teams coordinator

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Jack Nudo has been promoted to full-time special teams coordinator for Arizona State football, per ESPN's Pete Thamel on Saturday, Jan. 3.

Nudo, 31, finished the last five games of the 2025 season as the special teams coordinator while he filled in for Charlie Ragle, also assistant head coach, who had to step away for health reasons toward the end of October.

Nudo was an assistant special teams coordinator at ASU before he took over as special teams coordinator for Ragle. Nudo was in his first year at ASU, after coaching special teams at Cal.

ASU did not return any punts or kicks for touchdowns in 2025, and converted on 73.3% of its field goal attempts. That conversion percentage ranked tied for 94th in the country.

The Sun Devils finished tied for 117th with 17.3 yards per kick return and finished tied for 56th with 9.4 yards per punt return.

Thamel also reported that ASU is bringing in 13-year NFL punter Mike Scifres to coach the specialists. Scifres played in the NFL from 2003-15 for the then-San Diego Chargers. He was a fifth-round draft pick out of Western Illinois.

A significant part of the two new coaches' jobs will be developing a new kicker and punt returner for 2026.

ASU's 2025 punt returner Zecharaiah Sample (11 punt returns) has entered the transfer portal. Raleek Brown, who returned the second-most punts (two) for ASU in 2025, also entered the transfer portal. Kicker Jesus Gomez is out of eligibility.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Arizona State football promotes special teams coordinator to full-time

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