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Report Says SEC D-Line Coach in Talks with UW

Vanderbilt's Inoke Breckterfield appears to be in job discussions to join Kalen DeBoer's staff.
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Report Says SEC D-Line Coach in Talks with UW
Report Says SEC D-Line Coach in Talks with UW

Fixing the University of Washington defensive line was a high priority for the Jimmy Lake coaching staff that didn't get done.

It's an urgent concern for Kalen DeBoer who comes to a school that has made this a legacy position by sending defensive tackles Vita Vea, Greg Gaines, Danny Shelton and Levi Onwuzurike to the NFL. 

It's still a pressing issue for the Huskies who have the highly recruited Tuli Letuligasenoa, Taki Taimani, Faatui Tuitele and Jacob Bandes on the roster, plus promising newcomers Voi Tunuufi and Kuao Peihopa, to work with.

The man to fix this might be Vanderbilt defensive-line coach Inoke Breckterfield, an SEC presence who according to FootballScoop.com, is in discussions with the UW to to come to Montlake but hasn't been hired yet. 

Foremost, he once coached Aaron Donald at Pittsburgh, which is all the resume entry he needs to sell himself. 

Breckterfield is a former Oregon State defensive end (1995-98) who earned third-team AP All-America honors as a senior. So he regularly came to Husky Stadium during the Jim Lambright era. 

He is a former CFL player for the Toronto Argonauts (1999-2000) and Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2001-2003), so he no doubt knows Orlondo Steinauer, the former standout CFL safety turned Hamilton Tiger-Cats coach who has been linked to the UW defensive coordinator job.

Breckterfield overall has an impressive resume as a D-line coach that has him currently in the SEC and having previously made stops at Weber State, Montana, UCLA and Wisconsin besides Pittsburgh.

He is a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, which should make him a valuable recruiter in an area the Huskies heavily depend on for talent.

Breckerfield fits this job in so many ways, coming to an agreement should be a UW priority. 

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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