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Scott Satterfield, who was part of three national football championships and six Southern Conference titles as a player and coach at Appalachian State, has returned as assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, head coach Jerry Moore announced Wednesday.

Satterfield left Appalachian to be the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Toledo in 2009 before spending the last two seasons as the offensive coordinator at Florida International.

He is the first coach to hold the title of assistant head coach in Moore's 23 years at Appalachian and the Mountaineers' first official offensive coordinator since Rob Best held the title from 1989-2002.

Satterfield, who spent 15 seasons at ASU as a player (1992-95) and coach (1998-2008), was an integral part of ASU's transition from a power-I to a spread offense in 2004 and the five record-setting offensive campaigns that followed. With Satterfield serving as the Mountaineers' primary play-caller, Appalachian ranked among the nation's top 20 in the five major offensive statistical categories (scoring, rushing, passing, passing efficiency and total offense) 17 out of a possible 25 times from 2004-08. In 2007, ASU led the nation with a school-record 488.3 yards of total offense per game.

N.C. STATE: A day after being named Illinois' defensive coordinator, Jon Tenuta decided to stay at N.C. State.

"My family comes first, and I may have made a decision without fully thinking through the situation with them," Tenuta said in a statement. "My son is a senior in high school and has signed a letter of intent to play baseball at NC State, and it is something I just don't want to miss."

WAKE FOREST: Coach Jim Grobe has announced that special teams coordinator Keith Henry and co-defensive coordinator Tim Billings will not return.

"I just think we need to make some changes,'' Grobe told the Winston-Salem Journal. "We're just in a situation right now where it could be good for those guys to have new opportunities and it could be good for us get some new ideas, and things like that.''

Henry came to Wake Forest with Grobe in 2001 after joining Grobe's first coaching staff at Ohio University in 1995.

Billings spent six years at Wake Forest, coaching wide receivers in 2006 and 2007 before moving to the secondary in 2008. He coached the defensive ends in 2010 and the outside linebackers in 2011.