New Sam Houston head coach Phil Longo has hired North Carolina State safeties and nickels coach Freddie Aughtry-Lindsay as his defensive coordinator, per a report from Matt Zenitz of 247Sports.
Aughtry-Lindsay, a former linebacker at NC State from 2001-04, joined his alma mater's football staff in 2020. His unit's best year came in 2021, when the defense ranked second in the ACC with 19.7 points per game allowed and second in passing efficiency defense. He helped mentor NFL players Tyler Baker-Williams, Robert Kennedy III, and, most recently, Tamarcus Cooley. He was named interim DC for NC State in the Military Bowl after Tony Gibson took the Marshall head coach job.
NC State head coach Dave Doeren, in naming him the bowl game DC, credited Aughtry-Lindsay for staying with the program despite opportunities to take mid-major defensive coordinator jobs. Aughtry-Lindsay was a defensive coordinator for one season (2019) at FCS NC Central, where his unit ranked 11th in the nation in pass defense.
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