If Tim DeRuyter were a playwright instead of a college football coach, this would be the beginning of Act 2.
“I don’t know if I would describe it exactly like that,” DeRuyter tells me following Tuesday’s practice, the first after a week off for spring break, “but I understand where you’re coming from.”
When the final curtain came down on a dreadful 2015 that saw Fresno State finish 3-9, a change to the cast and crew felt necessary. Just a matter of how far up the program you wanted to go.
By now the script should be familiar.