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Butcher, Brandon

Brandon Butcher

  • Title
    Linebackers
  • Alma Mater
    Coastal Carolina '14
  • Email Address
    nposada@utep.edu
  • Phone
    915-747-5224
Brandon Butcher was named UTEP's linebackers coach in February of 2025. 

Butcher previously coached at the University of Tennessee at Martin for the last four seasons. He served as co-defensive and special teams coordinator for the Skyhawks for the first two years and was elevated to defensive coordinator/linebackers coach before the 2023 season. 
 
UT Martin is coming off back-to-back Big South-OVC conference championships in 2023 and 2024. The no. 17 Skyhawks finished 9-5 overall and 6-2 in Big South-OVC play this past season. UT Martin dismantled no. 16 New Hampshire 41-10 in the first round of the FCS Playoffs but fell to no. 1 Montana State in the second round. 
 
Under Butcher, in 2024, UTM ranked fifth in FCS in rushing defense, seventh in third-down defense, 15th in turnovers and fifth in defensive touchdowns. Six players on the defensive side of the ball were named Big South-OVC All-Conference first team members – S Oshae Baker (48 tackles, seven pass breakups), NG Christian Dowell (26 tackles), CB JaMichael McGoy Jr. (38 tackles, 17 pass breakups), DE Charles Perkins (38 tackles, 8.5 TFL), LBs Jaylon Sharpe (75 tackles, 14.5 TFL) and Tevin Shipp (75 tackles, 3 INT). LB Chris Hunter Jr. (72 tackles, 7.0 TFL) was named to the second team.
 
While at Southern Miss with Walden, Butcher was the assistant coach for the nickels in 2020, while being a defensive assistant/defensive graduate assistant in 2019. 
 
Before coaching in Hattiesburg, Butcher served as a defensive grad assistant/defensive analyst at Coastal Carolina for three seasons (2016-2018). He got his start as a defensive graduate assistant/student assistant at East Carolina in 2014 and 2015. 
 
Prior to his work in the college ranks, he spent one year as defensive coordinator with the Palmetto Havoc – a semi-pro football team in Myrtle Beach, S.C., from 2013-14. 
 
Butcher received his Bachelor of Science in Sports Management from Coastal Carolina University in 2014. 
 
The Wooster, Ohio, native is married to Rebecca Butcher. The couple has one son – Cal.