Defensive coordinator VIC FANGIO is the latest football player or coach to be recognized with a national award. Fangio was named Footballscoop.com’s Defensive Coordinator of the Year.
Fangio is in his first season as Stanford’s defensive coordinator after spending the previous 24 years coaching in the NFL, including the last four seasons with the Baltimore Ravens.
Fangio, along with fellow defensive coaches RANDY HART and DEREK MASON, coached the Cardinal defenders into posting three shutouts this season, the most since 1969, while allowing just 17.8 points per game — 11th best in the nation. That mark also leads the Pac-10.
“He has an impressive knowledge of the game and he’s able to teach that,” head coach JIM HARBAUGH recently told reporters. “He’s organized and it’s a belief our players have bought into. There’s an identity forming. You can see it in their confidence and execution. … He is one of the top coaches out there in all of football. I’m learning a lot of football from him.”
Read more on the Stanford Athletics website.
