Ryan Chartrand
Terrol Dillon, last season’s linebackers coach for the Cal Poly football team, has left the school to take a similar position at Texas State, the Bobcats announced Wednesday.
Dillon served for only one year at Cal Poly, helping the Mustangs to a 7-4 record by assisting on a defense that ranked No. 5 among 121 Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) teams in fewest yards from scrimmage allowed per game. He also coached senior middle linebacker Kyle Shotwell, who won the Buck Buchanan Award as the top defensive player in the division after posting 122 tackles and seven sacks.
Dillon, a San Antonio native and 2000 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, was Texas’ special teams quality control coach during the Longhorns’ run to the Rose Bowl national championship in 2005.
It was not immediately clear what the Mustangs’ plans were to replace Dillon. Cal Poly began spring practice Wednesday.