USC reportedly adding experienced defensive assistant as analyst, per report

Lincoln Riley is adding a defensive coach with more than 4 decades of experience to his Trojans staff.

According to Matt Zenitz of On3, Greg Brown is joining the Trojans as an analyst.

USC is expected to hire veteran defensive coach Greg Brown as an analyst, sources tell @on3sports.

Brown has been a coordinator at places such as Colorado, an NFL assistant for 10 years and a college secondary coach for teams like Alabama and Auburn.https://t.co/DlIXY67ten pic.twitter.com/q4RKjzj8wJ

— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) March 10, 2023

Brown, 65, brings 42 seasons of coaching experience to Los Angeles. He got his start as a graduate assistant at UTEP, his alma mater, in 1981.

Brown coached at a Colorado high school, in the USFL and with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers before his first on-field college football gig as a defensive backs coach at Wyoming in 1987.

After stops at Purdue (1989-90) and Colorado (1991-93), Brown returned to the NFL as a defensive backs coach with the Atlanta Falcons (1994; 2000-01), San Diego Charger (1995-96), Tennessee Oilers (1997-98) and San Francisco 49ers (1999). He was a defensive assistant for the New Orleans Saints from 2002-04.

Since 2005, Brown has been back in the college ranks. He has been a coordinator at Arizona (2010), Colorado (2011-12) and Charlotte (2022). Brown’s other stops include Alabama (2013), Louisville (2014-15), Missouri (2016), Auburn (2017-18) and Purdue (2019-20) as a defensive backs coach.