Q&A: Oregon State coach JaMarcus Shephard on staff departures, AI, the state of college football

CORVALLIS — The hallway toward JaMarcus Shephard’s office is lined with laminated plaques honoring Oregon State football players in the NFL: Brandin Cooks, Johnny Hekker and Nahshon Wright, to name a few. Current players wait in the lobby for assistant coaches to finish up their staff meeting. But one of the offices is dark, appears untouched, and is not likely to be used even once that meeting ends. It belonged to defensive coordinator Lance Guidry. After less than a week since his hire was announced by the team, the former Miami assistant Guidry is leaving OSU for the same job at Memphis. He is the second recently hired Beavers assistant to unexpectedly bail on Shephard in the last month...