Randy Hanson, an Oakland Raiders assistant coach who reportedly was involved in a skirmish with head coach Tom Cable, made his mark on Tim Walsh's staff at Portland State.
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If Randy Hanson were to place his kisser in front of someone’s fist as a target, he’d have been wise to choose somebody other than Tom Cable.
“Randy’s 5-9 and 175 and Cable is probably 6-3 and 315,” Cal Poly football coach Tim Walsh says. “Let’s just say they were fighting out of weight class.”
Hanson, the Oakland assistant coach involved in a controversial incident at Raiders’ training camp earlier this month, was an assistant coach under Walsh at Portland State from 2000-02.
According to reports, Cable, the Raiders’ head coach, punched Hanson in the jaw, sending the team’s defensive assistant to a Napa, Calif., hospital for treatment.
Under questioning from media, Cable has both denied hitting Hanson and said the incident will be handled internally. Hanson, 41, has been unavailable for comment.
Hanson coached the secondary and special teams at PSU. He had been a teammate of Viking defensive coordinator Greg Lupfer at Walla Walla Community College.
“He was kind of a savant in terms of breaking down video,” PSU sports information director Mike Lund says. “There was a sleeping bag in one of our conference rooms, and he spent a lot of nights in there during the season.”
“An extremely hard worker to the point of exhaustion,” says Walsh, the head coach at Portland State from 1993-2006 who is in his first year in that position at Cal Poly.
Hanson is a former quarterback at Pacific University in Forest Grove. The Burlington, Wash., native coached at Eastern Washington for five years before coming to Portland State. Since leaving the Vikings he has been in the NFL, coaching three years with Minnesota and one with St. Louis. He is beginning his third year with Oakland.
“His dream job was to coach for the Oakland Raiders,” Walsh says. “When he got married, they played the Raider theme song as they walked down the aisle.”
It’s the second time Hanson has been involved in a controversy with a Raider coach. After a 41-14 loss to Denver in the opener last season, Hanson told the media, “It’s a good thing (Bronco head coach Mike) Shanahan doesn’t have our players, or he would have beaten us 1,000 to 0.”
Then-head coach Lane Kiffin suspended Hanson for the following week’s game. Owner Al Davis reportedly didn’t agree with the suspension, and used it weeks later in firing Kiffin for, among other reasons, “insubordination.”
“I know Randy is tight with Al Davis,” Walsh says.
“Randy is very opinionated on how to play certain coverages, but that’s just who he is,” Walsh says. “We had a great relationship with him. He did a great job coaching special teams, and some of the things he believes in defensively are things we teach today. He helped us win.”
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=125087308932755800
If Randy Hanson were to place his kisser in front of someone’s fist as a target, he’d have been wise to choose somebody other than Tom Cable.
“Randy’s 5-9 and 175 and Cable is probably 6-3 and 315,” Cal Poly football coach Tim Walsh says. “Let’s just say they were fighting out of weight class.”
Hanson, the Oakland assistant coach involved in a controversial incident at Raiders’ training camp earlier this month, was an assistant coach under Walsh at Portland State from 2000-02.
According to reports, Cable, the Raiders’ head coach, punched Hanson in the jaw, sending the team’s defensive assistant to a Napa, Calif., hospital for treatment.
Under questioning from media, Cable has both denied hitting Hanson and said the incident will be handled internally. Hanson, 41, has been unavailable for comment.
Hanson coached the secondary and special teams at PSU. He had been a teammate of Viking defensive coordinator Greg Lupfer at Walla Walla Community College.
“He was kind of a savant in terms of breaking down video,” PSU sports information director Mike Lund says. “There was a sleeping bag in one of our conference rooms, and he spent a lot of nights in there during the season.”
“An extremely hard worker to the point of exhaustion,” says Walsh, the head coach at Portland State from 1993-2006 who is in his first year in that position at Cal Poly.
Hanson is a former quarterback at Pacific University in Forest Grove. The Burlington, Wash., native coached at Eastern Washington for five years before coming to Portland State. Since leaving the Vikings he has been in the NFL, coaching three years with Minnesota and one with St. Louis. He is beginning his third year with Oakland.
“His dream job was to coach for the Oakland Raiders,” Walsh says. “When he got married, they played the Raider theme song as they walked down the aisle.”
It’s the second time Hanson has been involved in a controversy with a Raider coach. After a 41-14 loss to Denver in the opener last season, Hanson told the media, “It’s a good thing (Bronco head coach Mike) Shanahan doesn’t have our players, or he would have beaten us 1,000 to 0.”
Then-head coach Lane Kiffin suspended Hanson for the following week’s game. Owner Al Davis reportedly didn’t agree with the suspension, and used it weeks later in firing Kiffin for, among other reasons, “insubordination.”
“I know Randy is tight with Al Davis,” Walsh says.
“Randy is very opinionated on how to play certain coverages, but that’s just who he is,” Walsh says. “We had a great relationship with him. He did a great job coaching special teams, and some of the things he believes in defensively are things we teach today. He helped us win.”
