FB : Marrone adds Daoust to Orange coaching staff
Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone added Tim Daoust to the coaching staff as an assistant coach, the team announced Monday in a press release.
Daoust, who spent 2010 as Central Michigan’s defensive line coach, comes to the Orange with nine years of coaching experience. Eight of those came at the Football Bowl Subdivision level, and this past season was his first with CMU. Central Michigan’s defense ranked 66th in the nation, but just 81st versus the run. The Chippewas finished the season 3-9.
Prior to 2010, Daoust spent the previous four seasons as a defensive coach at Western Michigan. He coached WMU’s defensive backs from 2007-09, and the defensive line in 2006.
That 2006 season is likely when Daoust planted the seeds that led to his hiring at Syracuse. Western Michigan’s defensive coordinator that season was current SU defensive coordinator Scott Shafer, and the Broncos’ defense that season was among the best in the nation.
Shafer and Daoust’s defense ranked 11th in total defense and sixth in run defense, allowing just 76.1 yards per game on the ground. Western Michigan also led the country in interceptions, with 24, and sacks, with 46.
The Broncos advanced to the International Bowl that season, losing 27-24 to Big East foe Cincinnati.
It was a defense that included future NFL players Louis Delmas and E.J. Biggers, both defensive backs. The duo was coached by Daoust in 2007 and 2008, when he was the defensive backs coach.
In Daoust’s four years at Western Michigan, the defense held its opponent to three points or less four times.
Daoust’s other FBS coaching experience comes from one year as a graduate assistant at Cincinnati in 2005 and two years as a graduate assistant at Northern Illinois from 2002-03. Shafer was also on the Northern Illinois defensive staff for those two seasons.
Daoust is the second coach to join the Syracuse staff that has spent time with Shafer on a previous team. The Orange’s defensive graduate assistant, Bo McNally, played strong safety for Stanford from 2005-09. Shafer was Stanford’s defensive coordinator in 2007.
Published on January 17, 2011 at 12:00 pm
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