Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), April 25th, 2008
Byline: CHIP SCOGGINS; STAFF WRITER
Ted Roof doesn't want to talk about what happened to the Gophers defense last season. Doesn't want to think about it, hear about it or spend one second worrying about it.
"I don't want to look back," he said.
Getting his players to do the same thing was one of the many challenges Roof faced this spring after inheriting the nation's worst defense in 2007.
Hired last month to replace Everett Withers as defensive coordinator, Roof, the former Duke head coach, made a point to focus everything on the present and not relive the gory details of a nightmarish ...
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