Cal Lutheran Hires Redell to Direct Sport Fund-Raising

Crespi High football Coach Bill Redell will be introduced Wednesday as director of athletic development in charge of fund-raising at Cal Lutheran University.

Redell resigned from his teaching position at Crespi but will continue to coach the school’s football team while maintaining the full-time position at Cal Lutheran, Crespi Athletic Director Paul Muff said.

Asked about his new job Friday night at a roast for Detroit Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson at the Westlake Plaza Hotel, Redell declined to comment.

Cal Lutheran Athletic Director Robert Doering, who was sitting next to Redell, also declined to comment.

Redell, 45, a former Cal Lutheran assistant coach, led Crespi to a 13-1 record and the Southern Section Big Five Conference championship last season. He was named Valley Coach of the Year by The Times.

Ernie Sandlin, a Cal Lutheran assistant football coach, said that Redell, who coached at Cal Lutheran during the 1980 and 1981 seasons and formerly coached in the United States Football League, will not do any coaching at Cal Lutheran.

“If he has designs of coaching at Cal Lutheran,” said Sandlin, who described himself as a “close friend” of Redell, “they’re not immediate. . . . Nothing like that came up in the hiring process.”