Kendal Daniels is in his third season at OSU and has had just as many defensive coordinators.
First was Jim Knowles, who built the Cowboys into an elite defensive team before taking the same job at Ohio State. Then, it was Derek Mason, who took a sabbatical from coaching after one season in Stillwater. In January, Daniels found out his next coordinator was a 37-year-old D-II coach named Bryan Nardo, who was taking out the 4-2-5 scheme and implementing a new 3-3-5.
And Nardo wanted Daniels to be the centerpiece of it in the backfield.
Six months later, during the first practice of fall camp inside the Sherman E.