{"id":122196,"date":"2026-01-14T02:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122196\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:08:10","slug":"blake-gideon-leaving-georgia-tech-to-join-texas-defensive-coaching-staff-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122196\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Gideon leaving Georgia Tech to join Texas\u2019 defensive coaching staff, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A familiar face is reportedly joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\">Texas\u2019<\/a> coaching staff for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2011221607847772444?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2011221607847772444?s=20\">According to CBS Sports\u2019 Matt Zenitz<\/a>, Blake Gideon is leaving Georgia Tech to join the Texas staff as a defensive pass game coordinator and secondary coach. Gideon spent the 2025 season at Georgia Tech as the program\u2019s defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Gideon notably played safety at Texas from 2008-11. He started 52 games throughout his collegiate career, recording 234 total tackles, 10 interceptions, three pass deflections and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">After playing for two seasons in the NFL, Gideon started his coaching career in 2014. He has coached at several schools, including Florida, Houston and Ole Miss. He worked under Will Muschamp at Florida as a defensive quality control coach throughout the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Gideon has coached at Texas in the past, working as the program\u2019s safeties coach from 2021-24. He\u2019s set to reunite with Muschamp, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/2025\/12\/18\/texas-fires-dc-pete-kwiatkowski-brings-back-former-dc-will-muschamp\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/2025\/12\/18\/texas-fires-dc-pete-kwiatkowski-brings-back-former-dc-will-muschamp\/\">was rehired as Texas\u2019 defensive coordinator in December.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Texas coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A familiar face is reportedly joining Texas\u2019 coaching staff for the 2026 season. According to CBS Sports\u2019 Matt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3688,154,27,29,537,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-122196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-colleges","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-longhorns","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}