SMU hires Ole Miss assistant Maurice Crum as linebacker coach

SMU solidified its defensive coaching staff by hiring Maurice Crum, a source confirmed to DCTF. Crum, who spent 2022 at Ole Miss, arrived in Oxford after five seasons at Western Kentucky. He was the defensive coordinator at WKU in 2021, holding opponents to 21 points or less in seven of their last eight games that season. He was at Indiana State in 2016 and was a defensive graduate assistant at Notre Dame in 2015. 

Crum was a four-year letterwinner at Notre Dame from 2005-08. He played in 52 games, starting 42 straight times. He recorded over 300 tackles and eight sacks in his career. He was a team captain in 2007 and 2008.