Reports out of Honolulu have Hawaii special teams/defensive tackles coach Ikaika Malloe taking over as Yale's defensive coordinator.

Malloe was a graduate assistant at the University of Washington in 1999 which was the first of new Yale coach Tom Williams' three years as the inside linebackers coach with the Huskies.

Malloe is a former safety and linebacker at Washington who also had coaching stints at Western Illinois and Texas-El Paso.