{"id":349656,"date":"2025-12-15T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349656\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:17:08","slug":"kentucky-support-staffer-will-be-new-defensive-coordinator-at-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349656\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky support staffer will be new defensive coordinator at Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Kentucky head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/will-stein-177513\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Stein<\/a> is working swiftly to hire his first coaching staff while also helping Oregon prepare for a College Football Playoff game. After getting both coordinators set, the ball really got rolling this weekend with four hires. While that was happening, a former Kentucky staffer found a new landing spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/brad-lambert-131991\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Lambert<\/a> spent the 2025 season with Kentucky as a defensive analyst. The long-time defensive coordinator and former Charlotte head coach will no longer be working as a support staffer in college football. Marshall has hired the 60-year-old to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballscoop.com\/2025\/12\/13\/sources-marshall-tony-gibson-land-veteran-defensive-coordinator-with-acc-sec-ties\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the next defensive coordinator<\/a> in Huntington.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert joined the Kentucky program last offseason as he reunited with one of his former players. Former Kentucky defensive coordinator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/brad-white-134014\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad White<\/a> was a linebacker at Georgia when Lambert was the linebackers coach in Athens. Lambert then left the SEC after head coach Jim Donnan was fired. White followed him to Wake Forest.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC defensive coordinator spent 10 seasons in Winston-Salem before becoming a head coach at Charlotte in 2011. After an eight-year run where Lambert helped the 49ers transition to the FBS, Lambert landed at Marshall to be a defensive coordinator in 2019. What followed were stops at Purdue (2021) and Wake Forest (2022-24) as a defensive play-caller. Now the long-time coach is returning to Marshall where he will be a defensive coordinator again.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another former Kentucky staff member has found a new landing spot.<\/p>\n<p>Where former Kentucky coaches have landed this offseason<\/p>\n<p>CoachPosition at KentuckyNew SchoolNew PositionBush HamdanOffensive CoordinatorMississippi StateAssociate Head Coach for OffenseBrad WhiteDefensive CoordinatorFloridaDefensive CoordinatorChris CollinsDefensive BacksFloridaSafetiesL\u2019Damian WashingtonWide ReceiversOle MissWide ReceiversEric WolfordOffensive LineLSUOffensive LineDerek ShayTight EndsTexas A&amp;MTight EndsChase HeukeDirector of RecruitingLouisvilleTBDBrad LambertDefensive AnalystMarshallDefensive Coordinator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Kentucky head coach Will Stein is working swiftly to hire his first coaching staff while also helping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[41113,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-349656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-brad-lambert","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}