Report: Former Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee assistant Brian Niedermeyer to become IMG Academy coordinator

IMG Academy is reportedly turning to the SEC for its new defensive coordinator.

Brian Niedermeyer, who served as an assistant at Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, is preparing to take the role, according to FootballScoop’s John Brice. Niedermeyer spent 2021 at Saint Thomas Aquinas in Florida in multiple roles.

Niedermeyer played tight end at Arkansas-Pine Bluff before jumping into coaching in 2012 as an assistant with the Golden Lions. He jumped to Miami in 2013 as a volunteer assistant and worked as a graduate assistant at Georgia in 2015. He then became a GA under Nick Saban at Alabama in 2016 before moving up to assistant in 2017.

From 2018-20, Niedermeyer served as the tight ends coach at Tennessee under Jeremy Pruitt. After that, he moved to Florida to work at Saint Thomas Aquinas and is now reportedly taking on his new role at IMG Academy, one of the most prestigious prep academies in the country.

IMG Academy promoted Billy Miller to head coach in March in addition to his role as special teams coordinator. He spent the last eight seasons with IMG after working in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New England Patriots. With both teams, Miller served as a special teams assistant before joining IMG in 2014.

IMG Academy produced four national top-50 prospects from the Class of 2022, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. Alabama signees and five-star recruits Jihaad Campbell and Tyler Booker came in as the nation’s No. 16 and No. 29 prospects, respectively, while four-star Georgia signee Daylen Everette was the No. 34 player in the country. Kamari Wilson, a four-star safety who signed with Florida, rounded out the group as the No. 42 player in the nation.