LSU football names Matt House as next defensive coordinator

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• NFL draft: Full list of Chiefs' Day 3 picks
• Former Chiefs LB coach Matt House explains decision to return to college football
• Matt House officially named LSU's defensive coordinator
• LSU fires 4 defensive assistants, including defensive coordinator Matt House
• Jaguars 2024 coaching search tracker and staff updates

In Matt House, new LSU coach Brian Kelly hopes he has found a defensive coordinator who can deliver instantly in Baton Rouge. In his first year at LSU, House had to overhaul a Tiger defense that was decimated due to the NFL Draft and players leaving the program. The result was nothing short of remarkable as the Tigers ranked among the top half the SEC in nearly every major defensive category. The project is described only as an original story that Galluppi developed and brought to Raimi and team. No word on a plot or who all will be producing, as it’s early days here.

NFL draft: Full list of Chiefs' Day 3 picks

If those two players are any indication, fans may see guys like Josh Allen dropping into coverage more often. The 2022 unit saw similar struggles on defense, with three of its four losses coming in games in which it allowed 38 points or more. Kelly on Dec. 5, 2023 said he was evaluating the defense and its staff, adding the unit "did not play to the level that our standard is set at." Kelly added that whatever decisions he would make would not be made hastily. The 2018 season saw the Wildcats with their first 10 win season and ranked No. 12 in the nation and defeated Penn State 27.24 in the Citrus Bowl. While at Kentucky, House helped middle linebackers Courtney Love and Jordan Jones combine for 185 tackles as first-time starters and Jones also made the All-SEC second team.

Former Chiefs LB coach Matt House explains decision to return to college football

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Matt House officially named LSU's defensive coordinator

House also served as defensive coordinator at Pittsburgh and FIU with varying levels of success. The Kansas City Chiefs lost a pair of defensive position coaches this offseason. This year, the Chiefs have clinched the AFC West with an 11-4 overall record and they are led by a defense that ranks among the top five in the NFL in points allowed per game (20.4) and takeaways (28). House, currently the linebacker coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, will commence his duties with LSU, including recruiting, once the NFL season is complete.

The House came together Saturday to pass a sweeping $95 billion foreign aid package, a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation in the closely divided chamber. But the move only intensified infighting among House Republicans, who split sharply on the strategy to deliver assistance to foreign allies including Ukraine and Israel. "If I operated out of fear of a motion to vacate, I would never be able to do my job," Johnson told reporters this week. "History judges us for what we do. This is a critical time right now."

LSU defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Matt House on the field before kickoff against Missouri, Saturday, October 7, 2023, at Faurot Field on the campus of The University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. At first, House was reported to be leaving his job as defensive coordinator at the University of Kentucky to join the Chiefs as linebackers coach. Then, abruptly, Kentucky refused to negotiate House’s buyout on his contract. Eventually, they got the deal done, and now House is happily with the Chiefs. Since 2015, House has been a defensive coordinator and linebackers coach in both college and the NFL. LSU football on Wednesday announced it has fired defensive coordinator Matt House and several defensive staffers following what was largely a disappointing season for the Tigers' defensive unit.

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LSU fires 4 defensive assistants, including defensive coordinator Matt House

With House on staff, the Chiefs have made two Super Bowls and are currently the AFC's No. 1 seed with two regular season games left. LSU said in a release that House will join new coach Brian Kelly's staff following the end of the Chiefs' season. House will continue coaching Kansas City through its postseason run before joining Kelly and LSU, the school announced. Cooks had come with Kelly from Notre Dame, where he was a defensive analyst after coaching defensive backs at multiple schools.

House went back to the pros in 2019, joining the Kansas City Chiefs staff as linebackers coach. He was with the Chiefs for three seasons, picking up a ring for the club’s Super Bowl LIV win. House continued coaching inside linebackers while he was the defensive coordinator for the 2017 and ’18 seasons. Kelly now has multiple spots to fill with vacancies at offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, defensive line, inside linebackers, safeties and cornerbacks. He kept the majority of his staff intact before his second season, but his third will be defined by how well he adjusts.

Winning a Super Bowl is the ultimate achievement for a football coach, so that had to make this decision very easy for him. During House’s coaching journey, he coached Jaguars’ franchise linebacker Josh Allen at Kentucky for two seasons. Allen had 14 sacks between 2016 and 2017 while House was on staff with the Wildcats. With Nielsen now the team’s new defensive coordinator, he has been quickly moving to fill out his position coaches.

Offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock took the same position at Notre Dame in December. Denbrock came to LSU after he was the offensive coordinator at Cincinnati for four seasons. He previously served as an assistant at Notre Dame from 2010 to '16.

That defense produced first-round pick Josh Allen, second-round pick Lonnie Johnson Jr. and third-round pick Mike Edwards. After a season in Carolina, he spent three years working with the St. Louis Rams under defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo working as a defensive quality control coach. House returns to the college ranks for the first time since 2018 after spending three seasons in Kansas City, during which he was part of a Super Bowl victory during the 2019 season. He held the position of defensive coordinator at three other schools before heading to the NFL.

But in voting against conservative measures they do not believe go far enough, other Republicans say, hard-liners are weakening Johnson’s hand in negotiations because the conference is not united around a set of demands. Most House Republicans have grown weary of colleagues who consistently vote against legislation that must be addressed rather than work to seek compromise within the party. The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a more than $60 billion bill to provide military and economic aid to Ukraine.

Before his time in Lexington and Miami, House spent time as a defensive coordinator at Pittsburgh ( ) where he coached first round NFL Draft pick Aaron Donald. Donald has since become one of the most dominant defenders in the NFL, twice being named the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year. Pitt won two bowl games during House’s three years with the Panthers. House has been coaching football since 2001, when he took a job as a graduate assistant at Michigan State. He worked his way up to the NFL ranks in 2008, taking his first stop in the pros as an assistant special teams coordinator for the Carolina Panthers. House brings an impressive combination of experience and success in both the SEC and NFL, proving himself as a defensive coordinator at the Power 5 level at both Kentucky and Pittsburgh.

Instead of staying in Kansas City or pursuing another NFL job, former Chiefs LB coach Matt House joined the college football ranks. Speaking to the media in his introductory press conference on Wednesday, House explained why he decided to leave such a high-profile NFL job to return to college football. Saturday's vote marked the first time the House had approved billions of dollars in Ukraine aid since December 2022, when Democrats still controlled the chamber. At the time, it was the crime capital of America; Youngstown, Ohio, averaging about a murder a day with a population of about 40,000 people.