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Former Oklahoma LB Named Head Coach at San Diego

After winning a national championship with the Sooners and a nice NFL career with the 49ers, Brandon Moore got into coaching and has done nothing but win.
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Former Oklahoma LB Named Head Coach at San Diego
Former Oklahoma LB Named Head Coach at San Diego

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A former Oklahoma Sooner linebacker has landed his first Division I head coaching job.

Brandon Moore, who played on Bob Stoops’ 2000 national championship squad and went on to a seven-year career in the National Football League, is the new head coach at San Diego.

The Toreros play in the Football Championship Subdivision FCS (formerly Division I-AA) in the Pioneer League.

San Diego owns 11 conference championships since 2005, when Jim Harbaugh was their coach. They also have five FCS Playoff appearances since 2014, and are 2-5 in the postseason.

Moore in 2022 was the AFCA National NCAA Division II Coach of the Year at Colorado School of Mines, where he led the Orediggers to their first-ever Division II national championship game and set a program record for wins with a 13-3 record.

Moore was previously defensive coordinator and linebacker coach at Mines, where he arrived in 2016. As an assistant, he was part of five CSM teams to win the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and was elevated to defensive coordinator in 2019.

Originally from Baldwin, NY, Moore was a four-year letterwinner at OU, where his position coach was Brent Venables.

After receiving his degree in psychology from OU, Moore played six years with the San Francisco 49ers from 2002-07 and one year with the San Diego Chargers in 2010. He also played three seasons in the UFL.

Moore immediately transitioned into coaching at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona. He served two minority internships with the Chargers and Tennessee Titans. 

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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