Jeff Tedford could be back in the game, and at a former rival school.
Adam Jude of the Seattle Times reported Wednesday the former California head coach has been in informal talks with head Husky Chris Peterson about joining U-Dub’s staff as an offensive consultant. Tedford and Petersen have known each other since the former was Oregon’s quarterbacks coach while the latter coached wide receivers in the late 1990’s. Tedford is also a longtime colleague of Huskies linebackers coach Bob Gregory.
While it appears Tedford is in line to join Washington’s staff, nothing official can happen until later in the summer, when Tedford’s affiliation with a recruiting camp has expired. Petersen and Tedford can’t even officially speak about the possibility of joining the staff until then.
Tedford, of course, won 82 games in 11 seasons at California from 2002-12, peaking with a 10-2 season and a near miss of eventual national champion USC in 2004 and a No. 2 national ranking in 2007 before he was undone by bad play on the field and even worse performance in the classroom. Tedford took the 2013 season off before spending a season apiece as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator and BC Lions’ head coach.