Daily News | Everett Withers explains his on-again, off-again — and now on-again roles with Temple football
With all of the movement Everett Withers has done in less than a year, it would be easy to consider Temple’s defensive coordinator a bit of an opportunist.after leaving just nine months earlier was essentially a best-of-both-worlds situation. Withers, who originally joined Temple last year as the chief of staff for its football program, did so to primarily assist Stan Drayton in his first year as the Owls’ new head coach.
December arrived with an opportunity to return to the sidelines as a coach with Florida Atlantic University as a member of Owls head coach Tom Herman’s staff. Withers worked alongside Herman at Ohio State during the 2012-13 season. “You know, I came back not more so for the defensive coordinator position, I came back to be around our kids here,” Withers said. “I really, really have a love for the type of kids that we have here at Temple. And to me, that’s more than the football. More than anything else, just to be around and try to help mentor and then obviously help Stan and the staff here. But really it’s just to be around the kids.
“[When I] went back to [FAU] and was pass game coordinator … the more I got into it, the more I got around it, the more the competitive juices started to flow,” said Withers. “It was fun being back on the field for all season and [for] pre-spring ball down there. We were getting ready to start down [at FAU] when D.J. Eliot left and Stan called me and said, ‘Why don’t you, you know, it’d be great if you came back.’ To be honest with you, it wasn’t hard for me to come back.
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