Breckterfield Hired by San Diego State, Joins 2 Former DeBoer Coaches

The one-time Husky defensive-line coach reunites with Eric Schmidt and C.J. McGorisk.

Dan Raley | Feb 12, 2024

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San Diego State has hired a third member of Kalen DeBoer's former University of Washington football coaching staff, adding Inoke Breckterfield on Monday as the Aztecs' defensive-line coach.

Breckterfield, 46, reunites with San Diego State's defensive coordinator Eric Schmidt and safeties coach C.J. McGorisk, who served as the edge coach and a quality coach, respectively, while in Montlake.

The Aztecs are coached by Sean Lewis, previously the Colorado offensive coordinator for Deion Sanders and before that the Kent State head coach who brought his to Seattle in 2022 for DeBoer's first game as the Husky coach.

Since DeBoer left the UW for Alabama, three of his Husky coaches still are looking for new jobs in co-defensive coordinator Chuck Morrell, running-backs coach Lee Marks and cornerbacks coach Julius Brown.

Breckterfield, a former Oregon State standout and the 1999 Morris Trophy winner as the Pac-12's top defensive lineman, is a well-traveled coach will join his ninth college team in 19 seasons, which includes making stops in four of the Power 5 conferences.

DeBoer initially took five coaches with him from Seattle to Alabama in offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb, offensive-line coach Scott Huff, receivers coach JaMarcus Shephard, tight-ends coach Nick Sheridan and linebackers coach William Inge.

However, Grubb and Huff since have been hired in the similar roles by the Seattle Seahawks, though the local NFL team hasn't officially announced these moves because of the blackout window on league news surrounding the Super Bowl.

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Published Feb 12, 2024

DAN RALEY

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.