Phillip Simpson has been officially hired as Nebraska’s outside linebackers coach, the university announced Thursday.
Simpson returns to Nebraska from Florida State, where he spend one year as an outside linebackers coach. Simpson was hired on Rhule’s first NU staff as a defensive quality control assistant. Before that, Simpson had made his name as a successful high school coach in the Miami area. Simpson knows Rhule well; he was a defensive lineman at Temple from 2004-07 and Rhule was his position coach in 2006.