{"id":426549,"date":"2024-12-02T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426549"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Texas-Tech-fires-DC-DeRuyter-secondary-coach-Yates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Texas-Tech-fires-DC-DeRuyter-secondary-coach-Yates\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech fires DC DeRuyter, secondary coach Yates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Texas Tech allowed the second-most passing yards in the country this season, it cost defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter and secondary coach Marcel Yates their jobs on Sunday. The Red Raiders (8-4, 6-3 Big 12) beat West Virginia 52-14 on Saturday to close their regular season but finished last in the conference in passing yards allowed (305.3). DeRuyter, 61, had been Texas Tech&#8217;s defensive coordinator since 2022 following a season in the same role at Oregon. Among many collegiate coaching jobs since 1989, he served as Fresno State&#8217;s head coach from 2012-16. Yates, 47, has been a college assistant coach since 2001, joining the Red Raiders&#8217; staff in 2022 as passing coordinator. This was his first season as Texas Tech&#8217;s secondary coach. &#8220;I appreciate the work Coach DeRuyter and Coach Yates have provided our program the past three seasons,&#8221; Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said in a statement. &#8220;This was a difficult but necessary decision as we continue to elevate this program to competing annually at the highest levels of college football.&#8221; Texas Tech will name an interim defensive coordinator for its bowl game, McGuire said. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/bfdb90cb444da77d29518e00a75c535a.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter gestures during a drill during football practice, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, at the Sports Performance Center.<\/p>\n<p>-Annie Rice\/Avalanche-Journal \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Texas Tech allowed the second-most passing yards in the country this season, it cost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}