According to Football Scoop and BuffStampede.com, Buffs coach Mike MacIntyre has hired former South Florida Jim Leavitt to run the team’s defensive. Leavitt’s reported hire comes more than six weeks after Kent Baer left Colorado to join Tony Sanchez’s staff at UNLV.
Leavitt spent the past four seasons as linebackers coach on Jim Harbaugh’s San Francisco 49ers staff. He previously was the head coach at South Florida for 13 seasons, where he had a 95-57 record and guided the Bulls’ transition from a Division I-AA program to the Big East.
Leavitt was fired in January 2010 after a school investigation found that he “grabbed one of his players by the throat, slapped him in the face and then lied about it.” Leavitt denied the allegation.
Before taking over at South Florida in 1997, Leavitt was an assistant at Kansas State, Iowa, Missouri, NAIA Morningside and Division III Dubuque.
He’ll take over a Colorado defense that was 119th nationally in scoring defense in 2014 in MacIntyre’s second season. Leavitt will also coach Colorado’s linebackers. Per BuffStampede.com, Leavitt is expected to arrive in Colorado on Friday.
In addition to Leavitt, Colorado is also bringing in former Central Michigan defensive coordinator Joe Tumpkin as defensive backs coach to replace Andy LaRussa, who also left for UNLV.
Before arriving at Central Michigan in 2010, Tumpkin coached linebackers at SMU from 2005-07 and Pittsburgh from 2008-09. He also had stints as a defensive assistant at Lakeland College, Northern Michigan, Defiance College, Western Michigan, Southern Illinois, and Sam Houston State.
Colorado went 2-10 in 2014.
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