AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has named South Carolina's Coleman Hutzler as the Longhorns' co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach the school announced Tuesday afternoon, confirming what a source close to the situation told Horns247 earlier in the day.

Sources confirmed to Horns247 Monday night Hutzler — South Carolina’s linebackers coach and special teams coordinator under Will Muschamp the past four seasons — was gaining traction as a candidate to join Tom Herman’s staff at Texas, and a deal has since been finalized, the source told Horns247.

Hutzler will serve as in co-coordinator capacity with Chris Ash. The former Rutgers head coach and Power Five coordinator at Arkansas, Iowa State, Ohio State and Wisconsin will be in charge of calling the game and will also coach safties for the Longhorns

“Coleman is a coach who came highly recommended by several people I have a great deal of respect for in our business,” Herman said in a statement. “When we had a chance to sit down and talk with him, he certainly lived up to everything we had heard. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience, is high energy and has accomplished a great deal while spending much of his career coaching in big-time environments in the SEC. He’ll do a terrific job developing our linebackers and helping us grow on defense. We’re excited to get him on board and to get him around our team and out on the road recruiting for us.”



Hutzler replaces former Texas defensive coordinator Todd Orlando as the Longhorns' linebackers coach. Orlando, now the linebackers coach at Texas Tech under Matt Wells, was let go by Herman in a staff shakeup on Dec. 1.

Hutzler, 35, has served as special teams coordinator and linebackers coach at New Mexico (2012-13), Florida (2014), Boston College (2015) and South Carolina (2016-19).

Hutzler began his college coaching career as a defensive assistant under Jim Harbaugh at the University of San Diego in 2006 and followed Harbaugh to Stanford in 2007 as a recruiting assistant. Hutzler became a defensive quality control assistant at Stanford in 2008 and 2009 before going to Florida in 2010 as a quality control assistant to then-Gators outside linebackers coach D.J. Durkin under Urban Meyer.





When Muschamp took over as head coach at Florida in 2011, Hutzler remained as a defensive quality control assistant to Durkin, because Durkin was retained by Muschamp as linebackers coach and special teams coordinator of the Gators. After two years at New Mexico under Bob Davie, Hutzler was reunited with Muschamp at Florida in 2014. After Muschamp was let go following the 2014 season, Hutzler joined Steve Addazio's staff at Boston College for the 2015 season before reuniting with Muschamp once again at South Carolina in 2016.

A native of Las Vegas, Hutzler played linebacker at tiny Middlebury College in Vermont, where he was a team captain and left as the program’s second-leading, all-time tackler.

In 2018, South Carolina's Joseph Charlton set a school record, averaging 44.8 yards per punt, while kicker Parker White improved from a 56.0 percent success rate on field goals in 2017 to an 81.2 percent success rate in 2018. Deebo Samuel also returned his school-record fourth career kickoff for a touchdown, tying the SEC record.

In 2017, South Carolina punter Joseph Charlton ranked among the nation's top 30 with an average at 43.5 yards per punt, and Samuel returned two kickoffs for touchdowns in the season’s first two games of the season.

Under Hutzler in 2016, the South Carolina kickoff return team led the SEC and ranked eighth in the nation, averaging 25.8 yards per return. A trio of players, Deebo Samuel, A.J. Turner and Rashad Fenton, all returned a kick at least 50 yards, with Samuel scoring on a 100-yard return. Placekicker Elliott Fry became the school’s all-time leading scorer.

At Boston College in 2015, freshman Michael Walker ranked in the top 10 in the nation in kick return average, while the Eagles were second in the nation in punt return defense, allowing just 1.66 yards per return. The Eagles also blocked three punts on the year. Hutzler was also part of a staff that produced the nation’s stingiest defense, as the Eagles allowed just 254.3 yards per game and 24.1 percent of third-down conversions and were second in rushing defense at 82.8 yards per contest.