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Oklahoma’s old defensive coordinator has reportedly landed on his feet, and gets to keep coaching in the Big 12 Conference.
Brent Venables invited his defensive coordinator to stay on staff in another role, but Roof wanted to continue as a full-time, on-field coach and now has scored a new job.
Roof was hired this week as defensive coordinator at Central Florida, per a report from the Orlando Sentinel’s Matt Murschel.
Roof, 60, was one of new head coach Brent Venables‘ last hires in 2022. He was on Dabo Swinney’s support staff as a defensive analyst before Venables brought him to Norman.
Roof has had multiple coaching stops but has largely put down roots in the Southeast and has spent the majority of his career at places like Alabama, Georgia Tech, Duke, North Carolina State, Appalachian State and Vanderbilt.
Roof will coach defense for Gus Malzahn, but he’s already been on the Knights’ staff once, when he was UCF’s defensive coordinator in 2011. Roof has also coached at Penn State, Minnesota and UMass among his many stops. Roof and Malzahn won a national title together at Auburn in 2010 when Roof was Malzahn’s defensive coordinator.
