Young could join Coker as triple crown coordinators

OSU is talking with Bill Young about the open defensive coordinator job, and if Young makes the jump from Miami to Stillwater, he would join Larry Coker in an exclusive club.

Coker was offensive coordinator at all three major-college football schools in Oklahoma. Young has been defensive coordinator at Tulsa and OU; OSU would give him the sweep.

Coker, of course, was a little more unique, because he jumped from one school to the next — from Tulsa to OSU to OU. Young has worked all over the place in between finding his way back to Oklahoma.

Young, an OSU grad, was a junior varsity coach for the Cowboys in 1968. He returned to OSU in 1976-78, working for Jim Stanley. He went to Iowa State, then became John Cooper’s defensive coordinator at Tulsa from 1980-84. He followed Cooper to Arizona State and Ohio State, then in 1996 was hired by John Blake to be OU’s defensive coordinator. Since then, Young has worked at Southern Cal, Detroit of the NFL, Kansas and Miami.