Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga linebacker Jimmy Lindsey, who also had two separate coaching stints with the Mocs, was announced Sunday as South Carolina’s defensive line coach.
Lindsey spent this past season as defensive ends coach at Illinois but now joins the inaugural staff of Gamecocks head coach Shane Beamer. Tracy Rocker had been retained as defensive line coach by Beamer from Will Muschamp’s staff, but Rocker left this past week for the same role at Auburn.
Before Lindsey’s one season with the Fighting Illini, he spent three seasons at Western Kentucky under defensive coordinator Clayton White, who is now overseeing South Carolina’s defense with a specific focus on inside linebackers.
“Jimmy has a really impressive track record of success with the guys he’s coached and came highly recommended by Coach White, who worked with him at Western Kentucky,” Beamer said in a release. “I love that he has ties to the Carolinas – born in South Carolina and raised in North Carolina – and has coached and recruited in this region as well.”
Lindsey played for Buddy Green’s Mocs from 1996-99, serving as team captain his senior season. He began his coaching career under Green’s successor, Donnie Kirkpatrick, as a student assistant during the 2000-01 seasons and worked as linebackers coach in 2002 after earning his degree in sports administration.