Michael O’Guin is in his first season with the Bearkats, serving as defensive line coach and defensive recruiting coordinator.
He joined the Kats after serving as a defensive line assistant with Notre Dame for the 2020 season, helping the Fighting Irish to a 10-2 record.
That came after a 2-year stint in Lubbock where he was a graduate assistant working with the defensive line at Texas Tech for both the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
O’Guin arrived in Lubbock after 2 seasons at the defensive line coach at North Shore High School in the Houston area, which claimed the Class 6A Division-I state title in 2018 thanks to a thrilling Hail Mary pass as time expired. North Shore was later named the top high school team in the country by MaxPreps following the season.
The Mustangs previously advanced to the regional finals during O’Guin’s first season on staff in 2017. He was part of playoff teams in each of his five seasons at the high school level before accepting a graduate assistant position with the Red Raiders.
O’Guin coached Tony Bradford Jr. during his time at North Shore, pushing the eventual Tech signee to Defensive Player of the Year honors at the Touchdown Club of Houston’s area end-of-year awards banquet in 2018. Bradford was also named the District 21-6A Defensive Player of the Year following a strong senior season.
North Shore was the third position for O’Guin, who previously worked at Angleton High School from 2015-17 and John Tyler High School from 2014-15. He was the recruiting coordinator at Angleton, a role he also shared while at North Shore. O’Guin coached or assisted with the defensive line in each of those two stops.
Prior to joining the coaching profession, O’Guin was a scholarship student-athlete at SMU where he saw action in six games as a true freshman in 2010 before a knee injury the following spring unfortunately ended his career. O’Guin remained with the program as a student assistant coach for the next three years, working primarily with the defensive line while also overseeing SMU’s annual Junior Day event and assisting with recruiting.
O’Guin, a native of Missouri City, Texas, earned dual degrees during his time at SMU, graduating with a bachelor’s in history as well as applied physiology and sport management in 2014.
