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Pet projects: A coach and his position

By Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

QB guru Charlie Weis isn't the only coach who is remaking a team in his own image. Here are three more who are using the position they know best to build their program. Mike Stoops: Arizona DBs Pedigree: A former star safety at Iowa who tutored a run of top DBs at Oklahoma, including Thorpe winner Derrick Strait and first-rounders Roy Williams and Andre Woolfolk. Prodigies: In CB Antoine Cason and safety Michael Johnson, Stoops has two more guys with first-round potential. Cason (6'0, 182 poun ...

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