University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels Add Dave Huxtable to Football Staff
January 3, 2001 | Football
Jan. 3, 2001
Chapel Hill, N.C. ------ North Carolina head football coach John Bunting announced today the hiring of outside linebackers/special teams coordinator Dave Huxtable.
Huxtable comes to Carolina after a year as the linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at Oklahoma State. He is a 21-year coaching veteran who has also coached at East Carolina, Georgia Tech, Western Kentucky and Iowa State.
"Dave comes to UNC with high recommendations from many coaches," said Bunting. "He has great intensity, high energy and is a real teacher of the game, which is our No. 1 priority. He has demonstrated to me a real knowledge of linebackers and schemes for the front seven in general. In addition, he has extensive background in special teams and will coordinate that part of the game."
efore coaching the Cowboys last season, Huxtable spent two years on the ECU coaching staff working with the defensive line in 1999 and inside linebackers in 1998. It was his second coaching stint with the Pirates. He coached linebackers and special teams at ECU in 1990-91 and was on the staff that defeated NC State in the 1991 Peach Bowl.
In 1999, the Pirates' defense was 10th in the NCAA in pass efficiency defense and 14th in the country in scoring defense. ECU earned a berth in the 1999 Mobile Alabama Bowl.
Huxtable was on the Georgia Tech staff from 1992-97 as defensive coordinator, linebackers coach and special teams coordinator. He was part of the staff that coached Georgia Tech to a 35-30 win over West Virginia in the 1997 Carquest Bowl. He also coached at Western Kentucky from 1985-89 and was the defensive coordinator there in 1989. Huxtable coached first-round draft picks Robert Jones (Dallas Cowboys, 1991) at ECU and Keith Brooking (Atlanta Falcons, 1997) at Georgia Tech.
A 1979 graduate of Eastern Illinois University, Huxtable and his wife, Vicki, have two children, Shea (14) and Jake (11).
