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Osodeoro's avatar

Right, Tim Derutter is an outstanding defensive coach, though I thought Cristobal poached him. Stanfurd’s ability to come back from 14 points with 9 minutes on the clock in large part was the Troy Taylor factor. Just think, after a 5-7 season had, Knowlton had any modicum of foresight he had an opportunity to land a football savant in Taylor. Instead, he extends Wilcox’s contract.

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NGOBears26's avatar

I could be wrong, but as I recall DeR was not poached until a year after he had been demoted from DC to either co-DC or something even lesser to make room for Sirmon as THE DC

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Justbear's avatar

This is correct.

Sirmon became DC and TDR was demoted to co-DC. Following year, he went to Oregon.

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NGOBears26's avatar

Did anyone notice that DR completely shut down Cal’s offense as Texas Tech’s DC in our long awaited bowl game last December? It was very bad

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

I think a lot of people noticed.

TDR gave a blueprint for every program to shut Cal’s O down: pressure.

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