Kalen hired Chuck Morell to join him and Ryan Grubb in Cali. Not sure who's next; maybe Witt as SID?
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Originally posted by badboyblynn View PostKalen hired Chuck Morrell to join him and Ryan Grubb in Cali. Not sure who's next; maybe Witt as SID?
As for Fresno State....I think most were assuming if/when Kalen got his head coaching gig, Chuck might very well follow..as that seemed to always be a verbal agreement. I assume former USF OL Coach/OC Ryan Grubb will continue to be the OC at Fresno..tbd. Fresno is now like USF-West. Just think, that almost happened a few years back when Bubba got the job at UND..beating out Kalen.
It'll certainly make for an interesting squad for USF folks to follow.
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Originally posted by vikingfaithful View PostDo all these former USF players and coaches from the Bob Young coaching tree?
Deboer and Morrell are the only former Coo players and direct connection to Bob Young. They were teammates on the 1996 championship team under Coach Young. Morrell the leading tackler, and DeBoer the standout WR. Both would then graduate and begin coaching under Young at USF until his retirement in 2004. That's when DeBoer took over and began his own little tree of sorts shown below. So they have quite a long history.
Ryan Grubb came to USF in 2007 (and IIRC he was teammates with current Coo HC Jon Anderson and strength coach Zach Mathers at Buena Vista University) and left after 2013 to join DeBoer in the Eastern Michigan turnaround and ultimately to Fresno.
Lee Marks was a former Boise State running back but his Coo connection was serving as a strength and conditioning/RBs GA at USF in 2010 and 2011.
Eric Schmdit is the only one who wasn't a USF coach at one time.... but worked with DeBoer at Southern Illinois under Dale Lennon for a few years.
I know a lot of other schools may have connections like this amongst their own former coaches and players but I'll echo what Witt says in that the USF connections make Fresno a team to watch for a lot of old Coo guys like myself. I know many of my former teammates on social media would recognize old plays and concepts watching Fresno or Indiana. UND couldn't stop the TE delay in 2009 and appears many B1G teams couldn't either this season. Seeing a lot of your former coaches climb to the highest rungs of the coaching ladder is fun to follow and satisfying in the sense that little ol NAIA USF was churning out guys with serious coaching chops.
Good luck to the Bulldogs.
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