Why marvin sanders resigns

The Trojans improved from nd to 53rd in passing yards given up and snared 19 interceptions this season after only snagging nine last year. But USC's record dipped from to , and that might have been a more important factor than all the others listed. Sanders was hired as the new defensive backs coach for USC this past offseason after Willie Mack Garza was forced to leave due to his connection with Willie Lyles at Tennessee. Sanders had originally signed onto be the defensive coordinator at Florida Atlantic before the USC job came available.

He'd also been the secondary coach at Nebraska from and served there in a previous stint in He was co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach at North Carolina from to Almost the entire USC Trojans defensive staff is getting an overhaul this season.

Pendergast coached defensive backs as a Dallas Cowboys assistant in and also when he was defensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs in Kiffin hired Pendergast last week to fill the vacancy left by Monte Kiffin, who resigned after an embarrassing season and has since been hired as defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys.

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