To Orlondo Steinauer, this isn’t odd at all. But the Fresno State Bulldogs’ new defensive coordinator does understand why some would find it peculiar. A college football team – one at the bowl subdivision level, at that – hiring a defensive coordinator in the Canadian Football League, which features 12 players on offense and defense, a wider and longer field, and three downs instead of four.
That move just doesn’t happen every day.
But coach Jeff Tedford did it, hiring Steinauer away from the Hamilton Tiger Cats, where as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator he deployed one of the best defenses in the CFL.