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Former Red Raider McBath is among Texas Tech's new football staff

Six new members of the Texas Tech football coaching and staff staff were announced Wednesday, including the return of former Red Raider Darcel McBath.

McBath returns to Lubbock after a standout performance at Texas Tech as a defensive back from 2004-08. In his senior year, McBath led the nation with seven interceptions and earned All Big 12 First Team honors with an 11-2 team.

After college, McBath was selected in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. He also spent time with the Jacksonville Jaguars and San Francisco 49ers, where he was a member of the Super XLVII squad.

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McBath spent the last four years as cornerbacks coach at Mississippi State. He began his college coaching career in North Texas in 2016 and then moved to Washington State, where he coached under the late Mike Leach, McBath's coach at Texas Tech.

“With his experience,” Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said in the announcement, “Darcel will be an asset to both our offensive and defensive staffs in this newly created role on our staff.”

McBath will work on advance scouting for Texas Tech, analyzing opponents on both sides of the ball and scouting the Red Raiders themselves.

Other additions to the staff include Taylor Young (defensive quality control assistant), Jackson Kimble (offensive assistant), Tito Overton (offensive assistant), Wes Harwell (assistant director of scouting) and Shelby Saul (campus recruiting coordinator) . .

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Kimble previously worked at Buffalo after being an offensive lineman at Baylor. Overton will work with the Tech receivers after serving in a similar role at Vanderbilt.

Young was an assistant for Baylor during the 2019-20 season. Harwell was a recruiting assistant at Nebraska last year and will assist general manager James Blanchard in identifying potential players for the Red Raiders.

Saul is a daughter of former Texas Tech defensive lineman Tracy Saul. She worked as a student assistant in human resources and operations departments before graduating from Tech in May 2023.

Several new support team members have departed. Jake Pittman, Tech's assistant director of scouting, is now director of scouting at Houston. James Lockhart, a former defensive quality control assistant at Tech, is now outside linebackers coach at UT-Rio Grande Valley. Diego Ortiz, formerly a quality assurance assistant on the Tech offensive line, joined the Indianapolis Colts as a diversity coaching colleague under Tony Dungy.

Lou Bunning's term as offensive graduate assistant also expired.

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