USC associate director of sports performance leaves for North Texas Mean Green

Bryan Kegans worked with Lincoln Riley for the past several seasons. Like Riley, he briefly played for Mike Leach at Texas Tech.

North Texas and new head coach Eric Morris are set to hire Bryan Kegans as their new head strength coach, per Brett Vito of the Denton Record-Chronicle in Texas.

Kegans served this season as the associate director of football sports performance at USC. He previously spent time at Guyer High School in Denton.

Bryan Kegans came to USC in January of 2022 as associate director of football sports performance.

He spent the previous four seasons (2018-21) at Oklahoma, where he was assistant director of sports performance/director of sport science.  The Sooners won the Big 12 title in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and made a pair of College Football Playoff semifinal appearances in 2018 and 2019.

Kegans was an offensive lineman and special teams player for four years (2002-05) at Texas Tech, starting at guard as a 2005 senior.

In those years at Texas Tech he played with Kliff Kingsbury, B.J Symons and Lincoln Riley. He played under Spike Dykes — an assistant coach at the time — and head coach Mike Leach.

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