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When the 2024 season begins, Tyrone Nix will begin his third season at Tarleton State as the defensive coordinator. He will also lead the inside linebackers for the second straight season after leading the safeties in 2022.

In 2023, the final year of the program’s four-year NCAA Division I reclassification, Nix helped the Texans to their best record as a Division I school, finishing 8-3 overall and 4-2 in conference play. They finished second in the standings in the United Athletic Conference’s inaugural season.

In all, Nix has coached at eight different Division I programs, spending 15 years in Conference USA, nine years in the Southeastern Conference, one year in the Atlantic Coast Conference, one year in the Sun Belt Conference, one year in the Western Athletic Conference, and now one year in the United Athletic Conference. He’s a former Broyles Award finalist, given to the nation’s top assistant coach. In the SEC, Nix elevated as high as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at both Ole Miss, under head coach Houston Nutt, and at South Carolina, under head coach Steve Spurrier.

The Attalla, Alabama, native, played four years at linebacker for Southern Miss from 1990-93 before returning to coach at his alma mater for 10 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Southern Miss in 1995. Nix’s brother Derrick is the wide receivers coach for Ole Miss. Tyrone Nix is married to Toya Nix and they have two children – a son, Ty, and a daughter, Tiah.