{"id":85600,"date":"2025-12-08T01:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85600\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:06:10","slug":"nebraska-hiring-san-diego-states-rob-aurich-as-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85600\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska hiring San Diego State\u2019s Rob Aurich as defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-0989-1024x576.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-4606816 attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Img 0989\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>Courtesy San Diego State Athletics<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) \u2013 Nebraska has found its next defensive coordinator, ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel reported Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Huskers have agreed to a three-year deal with San Diego State\u2019s Rob Aurich as the team\u2019s new defensive coordinator, Thamel reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a post on X, Thamel noted that Aurich helped San Diego State finish No. 5 in scoring defense with 12.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Aurich joined the staff at San Diego state in 2024 as the defensive edges coach.\u00a0 The next season, he was named the defensive coordinator. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The hiring comes after Nebraska fired defensive coordinator John Butler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Huskers\u2019 season finished with lopsided losses to Penn State and Iowa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nebraska is set to face off against Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy San Diego State Athletics LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) \u2013 Nebraska has found its next defensive coordinator, ESPN\u2019s Pete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12111,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-85600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-huskers","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}