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Published: Wednesday, August 15, 2007, 10:12 AM Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2007, 10:57 AM

Donnie Webb / The Post-Standard

Randy Trivers is going into his second week on the field coaching the running backs as an assistant for the Syracuse University football team. Trivers was added to the staff after spring prcatice following the departure of Reggie Terry, SU's director of football operations. Head coach Greg Robinson moved running backs coach Desmond Robinson into Terry's old role and hired Trivers.



Trivers, 34, came to Syracuse from Northwest High School in Germantown, Md. He was the only coach the school had ever known. He started the program in 1998, led it to the 2004 3A state championship and tearfully walked away in late spring to join the staff at Syracuse. Leaving a decade's worth of work behind, not to mention a piece of his heart, hasn't been without sorrow.

"I was talking to one of the coaches (assistant Kevin Tehaan on Monday) from Northwest and (Tuesday) is the equipment issue day and the collection of paperwork and so forth and (Wednesday) is their first day of practice. It just kind of set in, that, you know, this will be the first time in the history of Northwest High School that I'm not a part of that process. It is (weird).

When you're in two-a-day camp here you kind of lose track of the dates and the days and the days of the week because you're just grinding and you're practicing. That (phone call) was an eye-opener for me just to think, wow, they're really about to start up and I'm not a part of it."




Still, Trivers is more than OK with his change of address and has integrated easily, it appears, into his new assignment.

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm OK with it," he said. "I might get a little emotional at some point (Wednesday) thinking about those guys practicing and me not being there. But I'm very, very pleased to be where I am for many ways and many reasons. Certainly, a big piece of my heart will always be with Northwest."

For Desmond Robinson, the transition has been new as well. He said it's not necessarily a bad thing, but he said he cannot help but feel like he's supposed to be on the field coaching the Orange. Robinson coached the running backs at Syracuse for two seasons before the move. He's also coached the running backs during stints at Notre Dame and West Virginia.

- Donnie Webb

dwebb@syracuse.com

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