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For Jeff Tedford, cleanup goes well beyond what happens on football field

Fresno State coach Jeff Tedford opens spring practice Monday, his first leading the Bulldogs, and there is a lot to get done coming off a 1-11 season.

On the field, Tedford and his staff will install offensive and defensive systems, but rebuilding a shaky foundation is paramount in righting a program that won back-to-back Mountain West Conference titles in 2012-13 under former coach Tim DeRuyter before seemingly everything took a nasty turn.

On, and off the field.

Attrition has hurt, not only with the number of scholarship players in the program, but also its Academic Progress Rate score and penalties loom if that is not fixed.