The Nebraska football program is about to have a brand new recruiting coordinator in Matt Pearce, an NU alum who returns to Lincoln after seven seasons at Coastal Carolina.
Pearce attended the university of Nebraska from 2014 to 2018 and did get his start working as a front office-type with the Huskers when he spent time as in both the recruiting and video departments as a student assistant. After finishing his school, he moved to Coastal Carolina where he's moved through the ranks.
Nebraska football brings back alum Matt Pearce to overhaul recruiting strategy
Can confirm Nebraska is set to expand their recruiting department with the hire of Matt Pearce, who joins the program after seven years at Coastal Carolina
— Tim Verghese (@TimVerghese) July 25, 2025
Pearce, a UNL alum, brings valuable evaluation experience to the #Huskers' staff
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Before reportedly returning to the Nebraska football program, Pearce served as a football recruiting analyst for Coastal Carolina during the 2018 and 2019 seasons. He was promoted to coordinator of football on-campus recruiting and operations in 2020 and named the assistant director of recruiting and operations in 2021. He was promoted to Director of Recruiting before he departed the Sun Belt power.
Pearce is credited as having a substantial impact on the kind of talent that both former head coach Jamey Chadwell and current head man and former Nebraska assistant Tim Beck had while at the helm of the Chaunticleers.
Most recently Pearce helped sign the Sun Belt's No. 1 class in 2024.
In recent years, Pearce has been a bit of a thorn in the side of the Cornhuskers. While NU didn't lose any big recruiting battles to Coastal Carolina, it appears the NU alum knew that there was plenty of lower-level high school talent that was worth pursuing.
More than once, the Sun Belt squad was taking recruiting aim inside the border that the Nebraska football team has tried to lock down. Now Matt Pearce has come home and will reportedly add a veteran recruiting voice to a staff that has undergone several changes in the last few years.