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Campbell Overhauls Defensive Staff After 2025 Fourth-Quarter Collapses

Campbell head coach Braxton Harris retooled his defense after a string of 2025 fourth-quarter losses, hiring a new defensive coordinator and multiple assistants to address late-game breakdowns.

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Campbell Overhauls Defensive Staff After 2025 Fourth-Quarter Collapses
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Campbell’s offseason response to a season of fourth-quarter losses is decisive: head coach Braxton Harris has retooled the defensive staff, bringing in a new defensive coordinator and multiple assistants tasked with fixing the late-game breakdowns that cost the Camels in 2025. That sentence is the clearest accounting available of the changes the program made after a year defined by late collapses.

The original piece carried the header "After Late-Game Struggles in 2025, Campbell Overhauls Defensive Staff" and the byline "By Eric Lusk," and the report’s narrative cuts off midstream with the fragment "The hires are presente". The report names Harris and the Camels and makes the hires the central action, but it does not list the names, dates, or backgrounds of the new defensive coordinator or the assistants.

Campbell’s stated aim in the report is specific: the personnel moves are meant to fix late-game breakdowns that cost the Camels in 2025. The phrase "fourth-quarter losses" appears repeatedly in the underlying material and anchors the program’s stated rationale for a defensive reset under Braxton Harris. Beyond that, the supplied report does not provide game-by-game examples, fourth-quarter statistics, or quotes from Harris, athletic department officials, or players.

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As written on March 2, 2026, the reporting on Campbell documents a defensive overhaul led by Braxton Harris aimed squarely at remedying the Camels’ 2025 late-game failures, but it leaves key verification details out of the public record: the names of the new defensive coordinator and assistants, hire dates, and any quotes explaining schematic or personnel plans. The move itself is clear; whether the new staff ends the fourth-quarter slide will be measured on the field next season.

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