Football
- Title:
- Defensive Assistant
- Email:
- cgeier@athletics.pitt.edu
Collin Geier is in his first season with the Pitt football program as a defensive assistant.
Geier joins Pitt from Eastern Illinois University, where he held the position of defensive coordinator and linebackers coach from 2023-24, linebackers coach in 2023, and outside linebackers/nickels coach from 2022-23. During his tenure at EIU, he guided the linebackers to accumulate 215 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, and one interception. Additionally, two of his players received all-conference recognition, with one earning first-team honors and the other second-team honors in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC).
Prior to Eastern Illinois, Geier served as a defensive analyst at the University of Arkansas in 2021. He also held the position of graduate assistant at Central Methodist University in 2019 and as a student assistant at Missouri in 2018.
A native of Naperville, Illinois, Geier played football at Trinity College in 2014. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Missouri in 2018 and a master’s degree from Eastern Illinois in 2018.
