Ted Roof Football Coach

For the first time in fall camp vanderbilt defensive coordinator ted roof spoke publicly about how his defense is evolving as the commodores approach their opener at texas a m on sept.

Ted roof football coach.

Born december 11 1963 is an american football coach and former player who is currently the defensive coordinator for the vanderbilt commodores. Well this is vanderbilt s defense alright. This isn t ted roof s defense he said. Ted roof a former all acc linebacker at georgia tech became the 20th head coach in duke gridiron history on december 6 2003.

A former standout at linebacker for georgia tech he was the defensive coordinator at the georgia institute of technology for two stints one in 1999 2001 under george o leary and secondly 2013 2017 under paul johnson. State head coach dave doeren has hired roof as the wolfpack s co defensive coordinator and. To a man everyone is very excited about the future and where we re. Vanderbilt coach derek mason has hired a trio of new assistants led by offensive coordinator todd fitch and defensive coordinator ted roof.

Ted roof a championship winning defensive coordinator and former power five head coach joined mason s staff after helping guide appalachian state to a superb 13 1 campaign in 2019 and a ranking in the associated press national poll. And it s been great to have coach mason as a resource. A decade after his head coaching career at duke ended ted roof is returning to the triangle. Mason also announced saturday that.

This is vanderbilt s defense. Terrence edwin roof jr. Georgia tech defensive coordinator ted roof is officially out on the flats ending his up and down five year tenure at tech after a string of poor seasons from his defensive units. He s made his hay in the coaching world as a defensive coordinator and vanderbilt s will become the 11th defense for him to coordinate and that doesn t count his second stint at georgia tech.