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Ted Roof makes PSU 10th stop of coaching odyssey

This is what so many of you wanted, Penn State fans. This is what makes your blood run, what gets Beaver Stadium whipped into a frenzy. It's not 12-play drives to field goals. It's not even graceful, looping touchdown passes. It's the terror of a defense with fangs. Not one that sits back in an umbrella and sponges the opponent to death but a defense that takes risks for big rewards. That blitzes from all angles, crumples quarterbacks and instills fear. That's what you've said you want. Well, Ted Roof looks like your kind of guy. The style of Penn State's new defensive coordinator is about aggression. He promises to order schemes you've not often seen under the reactive regime of Joe Paterno. In a half-hour one-on-one interview in his office at PSU's Lasch football complex on Friday, the former Georgia Tech linebacker and longtime major-college head coach and assistant laid out his vision for what a defense should be: Number one, you gotta stop the run. Because if you can't, that's a headache that won't go away. Also, from a...