Matt Guerrieri has to have one of the stranger job descriptions in college football. He is the co-defensive co-ordinator, along with defensive line coach Ben Albert. And he shares the defensive backfield responsibilities, coaching the safeties, while someone else coaches the cornerbacks.
Until this February that someone else was Derek Jones. Jones spent 12 seasons at Duke and helped turn Ross Cockrell and Breon Borders into All-ACC and NFL corners.
Jones left Duke for Texas Tech. David Cutcliffe is about as plugged into the college-football-coaching community as anyone can be and it didn’t take him long to replace Jones.