It’ll be fun to get to know the new defensive coordinator over the year and a couple of interesting wrinkles came out in this recent interview with the Tulsa World.
“He’s a great teacher,” (Mike) Yurcich said.
Perhaps that is because he puts so much thought into his lessons.
It’s not just what Knowles is teaching, the concepts of the 4-2-5 defense he first gleaned from Gary Patterson in 2000, when Knowles was a Western Michigan assistant and Patterson, still TCU’s defensive coordinator, visited Kalamazoo and shared nuances of the 4-2-5.