Former DC for Miami Hurricanes scores another opportunity at FBS program

Former Miami defensive coordinator Lance Guidry is getting another shot to run an FBS defense. This time, it's all the way across the country in Corvallis.

Per multiple reports, Guidry is expected to become Oregon State's new defensive coordinator after spending the 2025 season as a defensive analyst at LSU.

Lance Guidry to become Oregon State's new DC

Guidry has been around the block in his career. The Louisiana native was Miami's defensive coordinator in 2023 and 2024 before being fired after a late-season collapse that torpedoed the Hurricanes' ACC title hopes. Miami's defense struggled down the stretch in 2024, including giving up 42 points to Syracuse in the regular-season finale and 41 to Iowa State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, results that helped push Mario Cristobal to make a change.

Before Miami, he coordinated top-10 caliber defenses at Marshall in 2021-22, where the Herd finished in the top 10 nationally in a host of defensive categories during an 8-4 season in 2022. He was also head coach at McNeese State from 2016 to 2018, posting a 22-13 record, and previously called defenses at Western Kentucky, Southeastern Louisiana and Florida Atlantic.

After Miami cut ties with him, LSU scooped Guidry up as a defensive analyst in January 2025. Working under then-head coach Brian Kelly and interim coach Frank Wilson, he was part of a Tigers staff that finished the regular season ranked top four in the SEC in scoring defense and top six in total defense.

Guidry brings decades of experience to Oregon State. The question is which version of Guidry the Beavers are getting: the one who built efficient defenses at Marshall and WKU, or the one whose Miami group folded at every opportunity. If it's the Hurricanes version, Beaver fans will not want him to be in the building for very long.