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Former WVU Coach Tony Gibson Lands Power 5 Job and New Team Visits Morgantown in 2019 Season

By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on January 13, 2019 via Connect-Bridgeport.com

The Smoking  Musket is reporting that according to Bruce Feldman of The Athletic and sideline reporter for FoxSports, former West Virginia Mountaineers defensive coordinator Tony Gibson will be taking a co-defensive coordinator position with the N.C. State Wolfpack. Gibson will fill the position that Ted Roof filled at NC State. Roof left the team to take the head coaching job at Appalachian State.
 
Gibson, like all of West Virginia coaches, has a clause in his contract that limits West Virginia’s liability. When Gibson was officially released, it was on the hook for a $900,000 buyout but only if Gibson was unable to find another position. Now that he is taking a position with NC State, West Virginia will only owe Gibson the difference between 900k and whatever his new salary will be, if it is lower than $900,000.
 
Gibson was hired in February 2014 to help steady a leaky defensive unit during the early years of the Dana Holgorsen era. Gibson was the fourth DC in as many years.
 
WVU and the Wolfpack play in Morgantown Sept. 14.
 
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The News & Observer of Charlotte is also confirming the hire.

 



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