Football Woodie To Defensive Coordinator; Allen To Accept Position At Another Institution

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DATE: JAN. 16, 2016

 

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USF Promotes Woodie To Defensive Coordinator;

Allen To Accept Position At Another Institution

Woodie has guided two all-conference linebackers at USF

 

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TAMPA, JAN. 16, 2016  – USF Head Coach Willie Taggart has promoted Raymond Woodie to the role of defensive coordinator. Woodie, the Bulls’ assistant head coach/linebackers/special teams coach in 2015, assumes defensive coordinator duties following the departure of Tom Allen, who notified Taggart of his intention to accept a similar role at another institution.

 

“Tom notified me Friday that he had accepted an offer to become defensive coordinator at another program,” Taggart said. “We thank Tom for the energy and contributions he brought to our program over the last year and we wish him well as he continues his career.” 

 

Woodie, who has been a vital part of Taggart’s coaching staffs at USF and WKU for the past six seasons, will assume the defensive coordinator role immediately. The Palmetto native and former I-AA All-American linebacker at Bethune-Cookman (1992-95) has guided linebackers Augie Sanchez (2015) and DeDe Lattimore (2013) to all-conference honors in his three seasons as USF linebackers coach.

 

“It didn’t take long to identify Coach Woodie as the right person to lead our defense,” Taggart said. “He has done a great job developing a strong linebacker unit over the past three years and his positive impact on our special teams was very evident last year. Woodie has tremendously strong relationships with our players, great knowledge of our system and is well prepared to lead our defense.”

 

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Transactions: USF promotes Raymond Woodie to defensive coordinator following the departure of Tom Allen.

[TarHeel_Bull]

He's going to Indiana

[bullsmeanbusiness]

Welp this sucks...

[Sellular1]

1 minute ago, Bulls_Fan09 said:

He's going to Indiana

Seems kinda lateral 

[CPR]

Seems like Allen really wanted to get out of here no matter what.

[Roaming Bull]

Seems like he didn't really want to be here anyway lately. Good luck to him.

Happy for Coach Woodie. I hope he does well, and we don't see any drop off.

[TarHeel_Bull]

I just hope this doesn't hurt recruiting a ton 

[Bull Matrix]

Congrats to Coach Allen! Thanks for bringing the BullShark defense to USF

[usfgrad84]

Eh, could be a family decision. From Indiana and he has a degree from IU.

Just curious what kind of money he will be making. 

[Bull Matrix]

2 minutes ago, usfgrad84 said:

Eh, could be a family decision. From Indiana and he has a degree from IU.

Just curious what kind of money he will be making. 

Will be paid pretty well to say the least. Happy for him.