Source: Penn State defensive line coach Deion Barnes leaving for SEC job
Penn State will have to find a new defensive line coach for next season.
Deion Barnes is leaving to take a job coaching defensive ends and outside linebackers at South Carolina, a source told the Centre Daily Times.
ESPN first reported the news.
Barnes, who played defensive end at PSU from 2012-2014, leaves Penn State after rising up through the coaching ranks with the Nittany Lions. He was a graduate assistant from 2020-2022 and became the program’s defensive line coach in 2023, a role he has held since then.
He is the second assistant to leave Penn State for the Gamecocks, after running backs coach Stan Drayton did the same earlier in December.
Jon Sauber
Centre Daily Times