Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), February 20th, 2008
Byline: Chip Scoggins; Staff Writer
Former Duke football head coach Ted Roof interviewed for the Gophers defensive coordinator job and appears to be the front-runner, according to several school officials.
Roof, who was on campus Tuesday, was fired at Duke after last season. He had a 6-45 record in five seasons at Duke, and was 1-23 the past two years.
Roof was hired by Louisville last month to coach linebackers.
Sources say former Iowa State coach Dan McCarney, who recently took a job as an assistant coach at Florida, also was being considered for the job. However, a source close to McC...
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