Brian Vaughn

I'm a 18 year college coaching veteran  as a Defensive Coordinator and Defensive Backs Coach. I've coached D2, D3, and JuCo. I also write a football website blitzology.com.

Brian Vaughn enters his second season as the linebackers coach at West Texas A&M. Vaughn made the move to the Texas Panhandle following two seasons as the inside linebackers coach at Nebraska-Kearney. 

Brain Vaughn was with Nebraska-Kearney in 2021-2022, serving as the Lopers inside linebackers coach. 

An Illinois native, Vaughn has had coaching stops at Division II Florida Tech, Division III Rhodes (Tenn.) College, Rose-Hulman (Ind.) Institute of Technology, and WesternNew England (Mass.) University as well as junior college member New Mexico Military Institute. As a player he was a defensive back at Division III Illinois College.

Vaughn most recently was co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Florida Tech. The Panthers began playing football in 2013 and competed in the tough Gulf South Conference (GSC). Tech reached the 2018 D2 playoffs but the program was dropped in May 2020 due to financial strains from the ongoing pandemic. Vaughn saw the 2019 Panther defense have 11 interceptions for 125 yards and one score, 21 sacks and five forced fumbles. Three were named to the GSC all-league team including two defensive backs.

He was defensive coordinator at Rhodes, located in Memphis, during the 2017 season while being the DC at NMMI from 2014-16. There he crossed paths with Lynn and current Loper offensive coordinator Drew Thatcher as well as several future UNK players.

Vaughn was DC at Rose-Hulman in Terre Haute, Ind., for six years where he developed 22 all-league players and helped the Fightin’ Engineers win a conference title for the first time in a quarter century. Finally, he began his coaching career at WNEU in Springfield, Mass., and was the Golden Bears DC for four years.