Roughly 24 hours after Arizona State head coach Herm Edwards announced that he had fired his offensive coordinator Rob Likens and would not be bringing back wide receivers coach Charlie Fisher or tight ends coach Donnie Yantis, the Sun Devils have added former Oregon offensive analyst Prentice Gill to their coaching staff, according to people familiar with the decision.

Gill is likely to fill in the team's vacant wide receivers coach position and is widely considered to be a talented recruiter with a strong presence in Southern California — an area ASU has put emphasis on, especially under the direction of recruiting director Al Luginbill and linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator Antonio Pierce, who is from the area and served as a high school coach there.

Gill has already been in a recruiting meeting at ASU to start the week and is expected to be actively recruiting for ASU on the road making visits with recruits throughout this week and next week.

From Dec 1-14, ASU will be in a live period for recruiting during which commits and other ASU top targets can host coaches for in-home and school visits. ASU’s top wide remaining wide receiver targets include Gary Bryant Jr., LV Bunkley-Shelton and Johnny Wilson, who is currently an Oregon commit but visited ASU officially for the USC game on Nov. 9. All of these top targets are from Southern California. ASU is also targetting Northern California wide receiver, Elijhah Badger.

Current ASU wide receiver commit, Chad Johnson Jr., has reaffirmed his commitment to ASU in the wake of the coaching shakeup.

Prior to Oregon, Gill served as an offensive graduate assistant with USC where he primarily worked with the Trojan’s receivers.

Gill joined USC prior to the 2016 season under then-USC offensive coordinator and current Tennessee assistant head coach, offensive passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach Tee Martin. Gill was a key player in USC’s recruitment of former four-star wide receiver Koy Moore, who committed to USC but has since decommitted in favor of LSU.

Gill’s coaching career began in 2012 at Los Angeles Harbor Junior College —where he played for two years as a wide receiver in 2010 and 2011 — as a receivers coach. The following season, Gill moved to Long Beach Community College where he worked in a similar role as his previous job. In 2014 he spent a year with the Trojans in their football office before joining San Jose State’s staff as a defensive graduate assistant.

A Los Angeles native, Gill played wide receiver and defensive back at Narbonne High School and Cathedral High School before playing at Harbor from 2008-09.

Gill then transferred to Old Dominion where he played two seasons. In his career with the Monarchs, Gill caught 83 passes for 1,277 yards and 12 touchdowns.