He was Durkin's
defensive backs coach at Florida — a talent - rich state if there ever was one — and is just 34 years old.
Lempa worked with Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown as
the defensive backs coach at Boston College (2013 - 15), where he coached the nation's top defense in 2015.
Meyer's first coaching job was as
a defensive backs coach at St. Xavier in 1985.
After a year as Brown's
defensive backs coach at UMass, Shoop became defensive coordinator for Jimmye Laycock's Wiliam & Mary.
Stoops got to know the state of Florida in three years as Larry Coker's
defensive backs coach at Miami, and when Mike Stoops landed the Arizona job, he called on his baby brother to lead the defense, just as older brother Bob had done for him in Norman.
After bouncing around the staffs at Oregon State, Northern Arizona and Louisiana Tech, he landed his first consistent gig in 1998 as the defensive coordinator and
defensive backs coach at New Mexico.
Plenty has changed since he was John Cooper's
defensive backs coach at Ohio State in 1995 (Cooper was also his head coach at Tulsa in the late - 1970s), but he at least has a reference point for the differences between college and pro.
Not exact matches
If you want to get really into the weeds, here's nearly an hour of Saban talking
defensive back play
at a
coaches clinic sometime around 20 years ago:
His first Bowling Green staff featured a Notre Dame graduate assistant named Dan Mullen (the head
coach at Mississippi State), former Brown offensive line
coach John Hevesy (Mullen's offensive co-coordinator), former Arkansas State offensive line
coach Greg Studrawa (who became LSU's offensive coordinator for two years), former Villanova running
backs coach Stan Drayton (on Meyer's Ohio State staff), Gregg Brandon (who would succeed Meyer
at BGSU), Tim Beckman (who went on to spend three years as Toledo's head
coach and is heading toward a fourth year
at Illinois), and Tim Banks (currently Beckman's
defensive coordinator).
He spent four seasons as
defensive backs coach for Nordonia High School in Ohio, then joined Jim Leavitt's inaugural staff
at South Florida.
He had been a fine running
back and kick returner
at the University of Kentucky but professional
coaches turned him into a
defensive back.
But no one knew that he was fast fast until his growth spurt came
at age 14 and the
defensive -
backs coach at Arlington Lamar High kept seeing this skinny freshman wide receiver fly past the varsity cornerbacks during spring practice as if they were fence posts.
Wilcox was a
defensive back at Oregon in the late 1990s, and started his
coaching career as a graduate assistant
at Boise State in 2001 under head
coach Dan Hawkins.
Star Michigan
defensive back Jabrill Peppers played
at Paramus Catholic, too, and former head
coach Chris Partridge is now on Harbaugh's staff.
Reynard is close with a number of players on the varsity squad, having
coached a few in other sports, but he keeps a keen eye on his son, Isaiah Rutherford — a two - way talent
at defensive back and his dad's position, running
back.
He played
defensive back for four seasons, and eventually ended up
coaching at Manchester Central, the ideal place to begin his career.
New coordinator Jon Hoke, formerly Missouri's
defensive backs coach, replaces Bob Stoops, who became head
coach at Oklahoma.
Rather, it began
back in 1950, when he was
defensive coach under Gilman
at Cincinnati.
Just last year, he took over the
defensive backs coaching position from the departing Daronte Jones, and head
coach Paul Chryst trusted the former Badger enough to lead the defense with just one year of
coaching experience
at this level.
The Cowboys lost 13 - 10, second game of the season, and legend will show rookie running
back Derrick Lassic fumbling twice and
defensive end Charles Haley slamming his helmet into a wall and
coach Jimmy Johnson being almost unable to speak, stunned and angry
at what had happened, and Jerry Jones blinking
at last, heading toward the nearest bank machine with his card in hand.
Blind, 24, who agreed a four year deal, was in United
coach Louis van Gaal's World Cup squad and can play
at left -
back and as a
defensive midfielder.