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Neal Brown Begins Staff Hires at North Texas
Baylor defensive coordinator Matt Powledge, Texas director of scouting Errin Joe expected to join Neal Brown's first staff as head coach of the North Texas Mean Green.
The first major hire of the Neal Brown era at North Texas was made on Monday when news leaked that Matt Powledge would become the defensive coordinator for the Mean Green. Powledge, 38, has spent the last three seasons at Baylor as the defensive coordinator and safeties coach, though head coach Dave Aranda called the plays on the defensive side of the ball for the last two seasons.
Powledge played fullback at Sam Houston from 2005-09 and cut his teeth as a coach in Louisiana as a GA at Southeastern Louisiana and then as an offensive coach at Northeastern State. Powledge was at Kentucky with Neal Brown in 2013 before Powledge went back to Louisiana to work at ULM and then Louisiana until his first stint at Baylor as special teams coach in 2020. He’s been at Baylor since except for the 2022 season when he was the co-DC at Oregon.
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