SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento State football team has hired Jody Sears as its defensive coordinator, it was announced by head coach Marshall Sperbeck.
A veteran of the Big Sky Conference, Sears was the defensive coordinator at Eastern Washington from 2003-07 and returned to the league as the head coach at Weber State in 2012-13.
Sears' first opportunity in the Big Sky came at Eastern Washington where he coached the safeties, linebackers and defensive backs from 2000-02. He was elevated to defensive coordinator in 2003 and had seven of his players earn all-Big Sky honors.
While with the Eagles, the team made the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs three times and also produced three FCS All-Americans on defense, including Buck Buchanan Award winner Greg Peach. Eastern Washington also ranked among the conference's leaders in takeaways during Sears' time as defensive coordinator.
He didn't exactly inherit a winning situation, though. Most of the McBride's talent seemed to be gone, plus he had to try & clean up the John L. Smith disaster.
Teams set records against our defenses under Sears, course that could have been a mixture of his defense and the fact that we were just horrible as a team.
He didn't exactly inherit a winning situation, though. Most of the McBride's talent seemed to be gone, plus he had to try & clean up the John L. Smith disaster.
I think the Weber administration effed Sears hard.
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He didn't exactly inherit a winning situation, though. Most of the McBride's talent seemed to be gone, plus he had to try & clean up the John L. Smith disaster.
I think the Weber administration effed Sears hard.
It was written into his contract that if he didn't win 4 games Weber could release him without further compensation. He knew exactly what he was signing up for. And asking him to win just 4 games in a 12 game season isn't asking much. He did inherit a mess though, thanks to the asshole (JLS) who hired him. But in two seasons there was just no sign of improvement and little hope that things were going to get better. Sears is a really good guy but I never thought he was HC material. I hope the best for him in Sacramento.
That's what former DC Parker ran. A FS, SS, and NB (nickle back). Not sure if Sears' 4-2-5 will be different (if he plans on running that here) but something needs to change cause that 4-2-5 we have been seeing was utter garbage.
Sears was a good guy. Im happy he found a DC job. Dont know if I would have taken the Weber State job.. Hindsight is 20/20 tho.
It fell into his lap kinda at the last second (interim promotion from DC). Woulda been difficult to find a better job at that point. He definitely wasn't expecting to be the head guy when he went there.
