Larry Hart

Biography

Larry Hart is in his first season as defensive tackles coach at Air Force. Hart comes to the Academy after spending 2025 at Campbell University. Hart joined Campbell’s staff in Spring of 2024, coaching the defensive line and serving as run game coordinator. During that time, Campbell’s defense jumped almost 70 spots in run-defense from 2024-2025 PFSN also listed them as the highest graded DL in the CAA Conference. Prior to Campbell, Hart spent three seasons at the University of Houston as a senior analyst where they finished top 10 nationally in sacks (2021) and saw back-to-back bowl wins after the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Hart served as South Alabama’s outside linebackers coach prior to that. Despite losing three of six individuals on the preseason depth chart for most of the 2018 season, Hart helped three members of the position group — Sean Grayer, Chason Milner and Taji Stewart — combine to post 15½ stops behind the line of scrimmage including 7½ sacks. Milner would end the year among the top 10 in the Sun Belt Conference in sacks per game while all three would set new career highs in both tackles for loss and sacks in a season. Three different individuals would post career-high tackle totals under Hart’s direction in 2019, led by Senior Bowl invitee, and honorable mention all-Sun Belt Conference selection Riley Cole; not only did he post 59 total stops, he ranked second on the team with nine tackles behind the line and third on the squad with three sacks. This secured Cole