Having grown up in a military family, Kameron Brown likes structure.
And as much as he loves Auburn — the place he spent the first four seasons of his college football career — it was almost as if some of the things that made the school and the Tigers great as a program, the place where he watched his older brother Derrick become an All-American who was selected seventh overall in the 2020 NFL draft, and the place that Kam himself had graduated from in 2022 had come up missing.
Three coaches in four years will do that.
So when the 6-foot-1, 245-pound linebacker from the Atlanta area decided to transfer, he searched for a place that would provide the familiar comforts of structure and stability, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and head coach Rusty Wright provided just that. Wright was invested in the program even before taking over as head coach ahead of the 2019 season, having not only played for the Mocs but spent two stints as an assistant at his alma mater, and UTC has shown its commitment to him with a contract extension earlier this year.
“Coming here, there’s a new standard, a new culture,” Brown said. “It’s been here, but now it’s getting through to everybody. Just like at Auburn when my brother was there, the standard was so high and things weren’t focused on the money aspect of things. It was more on the ball and just getting the best out of each other every day, because dudes had a bigger goal than just coming out and being bored at practice every day. They wanted to get better every day, and that’s how it feels here now.