USD Football 2009

Coach Darlington enters his second year with the USD football program as the program's Defensive Coordinator. During the 2008 campaign that saw the Toreros go 9-2, the Torero defense ranked third in the Pioneer Football League in scoring defense (18.9 points per game) and third in rushing defense (112.9 yards per game). With a rich history of coaching experience, he spent the 2007 season as the outside linebackers coach at Southeast Missouri State University. He came to Cape Girardeau after serving as the defensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech in 2006. Darlington has also coached at Nebraska, Marshall, San Jose State, Dartmouth and Lebanon Valley. Darlington was a longtime Nebraska Cornhuskers assistant coach and became the first assistant in Division I-A history to be part of more than 300 wins at one institution. From 1973-85, he coached defensive ends and outside linebackers for the "Blackshirt" defense.From 1986- 2002,hewas the defensive backfield coach.He helped Nebraska to three national titles in 1994, 1995 and 1997 as well as numerous conference championsh ips. Wh ile at Nebraska, Darlington helped send 30 players on to the NFL while coaching seven Al l-Americans, including Bob Martin (1975), George Andrews (1978), Derric Nelson (1980),JimmyWilliams (1981), Mike Brown (1999), Ralph Brown (1999) and Keyou Carver (2001 ). During his final seven seasons with Nebraska, his pass defense was ranked in the top 1 O in the nation four times and in 17 seasons coaching the Cornhuskers secondary, his squad never ranked lower than 37th nationally. In three ofthe last four years at Nebraska, Darlington's defense was ranked second in the country twice and seventh once in pass defense efficiency, While at Nebraska, he was the position coach for Southeast head coachTonySamuel,wide receivers coach Lorenzo Brinkley and defensive backs coach Kenny Wilhite. Defensive coordinator Tim McGuire and offensive line coach Brian Boerboom also played for the Cornhuskers during his tenure as an assistant coach. Following his time at Nebraska, Darlington moved on to Marshall from where he cocahed the secondary in 2005, safeties and special teams in 2004 and outside linebackers in 2003, in addition to serving as the team's recruiting coordinator. During his first season at Marshall, Darlington helped the team lead the Mid-Atlantic Conference in total defense,allowing only 329.8 yards per game. Alongtheway,Darlington has been recognized numerous times for coaching success,earningthe 1998AII-American Football Foundation's Top Assistant Award. In the summer of 2000, the state ofWest Virginia honored him with the inaugural Frank Loria Award fordistinguishment in the coaching profession. Prior to joining Tom Osborne's staff in Lincoln, Darlington served asan assistant coach at San Jose State for four seasons.The 68-year-old started his col legiate career at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa., followed by a one-year stint at Dartmouth before moving on to San Jose State. Darlington was acollegiate two-sport star at Rutgers,earning three letters in football and two in lacrosse, where he was named third team All-American in 1961. The Charleston, W.Va., native earned his bachelor's degree from Rutgers in Historyand Physical Education in 1961 and amaster's degree in Education from Stanford in 1962. Darlington is married to Susan Doetterl of Bloomfield, N.J., and the couple has three children, Lisa, David and Julie, and nine grand– ch ildren.

NFL prior to coming to USD,enters his third year with theTorero staff. The program's Offensive Line coach his firsttwoseasons,he has been promoted to Offensive Coordinator for the 2009 campaign. He will continue to coach the offensive line unit as well. "Todd has done a very good job coaching our offensive line and overseeing our run game and pass protections in the past two seasons," said head coach Ron Carag her."He understands our philosophy on offense and is ready for th isnext step in his coaching This past season the Torero offense ranked first in the Pioneer Football League in scoring (35.3 points per game), total offenese (405.4 yards per game), pass offense (269.1 yards per game) and pass efficiency (163.2 rating). The Torero offensive line played a key role in the success of USD's offense. The 2007 offensive line unit did an outstanding job with both run blocking and pass protection as the 9-2 Toreros averaged 44.3 points per game and 483.1 yards of offense.Senior linemen Jordan Paopao and Gabe DeAnda were named to the AII-PFL First Team, while junior Deene Kabiling was tabbed a Second Team honoree. Additionally, Paopao and DeAnda were both accorded honorable mention All-America honors by The Sports Network. Washington,a 4th round pick by Tampa Bay in 1998,played five seasons with the Buccaneers (1998-2003), including the 2002 Super Bowl XXXVII Championship team. He closed out his career with the Houston Texans (2003-2005). Played four years at Virginia Tech University (1994-97) where he earned All-Big East 1st team honors in 1997 and appeared in the Senior Bowl (1998).Washington earned his B.S. degree in Physical Education and Health in 1998. He was a coaching intern (August, 2006) for East Texas Baptist University and for the Amsterdam Admirals (February, 2006) at their NFL Europe Training Camp. Todd and his wife Shannon have three children, two boys and a girl - Cameron, Ava, and Zane.

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