Brown enters his first season after becoming the eighth head coach in program history in January 2025.
Brown began his collegiate career in 2007 as recruiting coordinator and director of football operations at Big 10 mainstay Northwestern. In 2011, the Morehead State graduate took his talents to the NAIA where he served as defensive coordinator at Pikeville. Brown returned to the NCAA Division I ranks in 2013 when he took the director of recruiting role at Southern Mississippi before going on to the director of football operations spot at Kent State in 2016. Brown returned to the power conference ranks in 2018 when he served as assistant director of recruiting and a special teams analyst at Kansas before taking a similar role at Troy in 2019. By 2021, Brown moved into the role of special teams coordinator and tight ends coach for the Trojans.
Brown returns to the collegiate ranks after a brief stint as defensive coordinator at Alabama Class 7A Enterprise High School. Brown's career has also featured head coaching stops at Harmony High School (Fla.) and Magoffin County High School (Ky.) as well as assistant coaching stints at Saint Cloud High School (Fla.) and Lake Howell High School (Fla.).
Brown and his wife Gina were married in 2009 and are members at the Landmark church of Christ.
