An assistant coach for 17 seasons overall at Texas State, Mike Hudson served five years as the defensive line coach for the Bobcats from 2011-15.
Hudson produced defensive end Michael Odiari was named an All-Sun Belt Conference First Team defensive end in 2014 after ranking second in the league with 9.0 sacks and fifth in tackle for losses with 13.0. He also was third among team leaders with 73 tackles and led the Bobcats with seven quarterback hurries.
In 2013, Odiari was named an All-SBC Third-Team selection by College Sports Madness after recording three sacks, three quarterback hurries and breaking up two passes.
In 2012, Hudson tutored Joplo Bartu, who earned Second-Team All-WAC honors as a defensive end and linebacker. In 2011, he coached a pair of All-Independent Team players in Michael Ebbitt and Jordan Norfleet.
Ebbitt was selected as the Independent Team’s Defensive Player of the Year after recording 11.5 sacks and 15.5 tackles for losses. He also recovered two fumbles and returned one 63 yards for a touchdown. Norfleet added 2.5 sacks and led the team with six quarterback hurries.
Beginning his 25th season as a coach, Hudson returned to Texas State as an assistant coach for the third time in his career in 2011 after serving on the staff at Montana for six seasons.
He coached several positions during his six-year stint at Montana. He spent the 2010 season coaching linebackers after serving as Montana’s secondary coach for two seasons.
He also was the football director of operations in 2009, and was Montana’s associate head coach while coaching running backs and secondary from 2005-08. During his tenure there, the Grizzlies were FCS Playoff finalists in 2008 and 2009. Montana also won or shared the Big Sky Conference from 2005-09.
In 2010, he coached All-Big Sky Conference linebacker Caleb McSurdy after producing a pair of all-conference defensive backs Shann Schillinger and Trumaine Johnson in 2009.
Hudson went to Montana from Sam Houston State, where he was the defensive coordinator in 2003 and 2004 after serving one year as a defensive line coach.
While at Sam Houston State, the Bearkats advanced to the semifinals of the 2004 NCAA FCS Playoffs.
Hudson began his collegiate coaching career as a student coach at Texas State in 1987 and also served as a graduate assistant coach, working full time with the defensive line in 1990 and 1991 under Dennis Franchione.
He also was the linebackers coach at Texas State from 1995-2002, and produced Second-Team All-Americans Ypres Thomas in 1995 and Myron Coleman in 2000 and Greg Pitts in 2002. Pitts also was a Third-Team All-American in 2001.
Hudson also served as defensive coordinator during the last two seasons. In addition to his coaching duties, Hudson handled numerous administrative responsibilities that included serving as the liaison for academics and student services, study hall and summer school coordinator and the director of football camps.
In between his first two stints at Texas State, Hudson was an assistant coach at Trinity University in San Antonio for two seasons before rejoining Franchione as the defensive line coach at New Mexico in 1994.
Hudson earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology at UTSA in 1994. Born in Bryan, Texas and raised in San Antonio, Hudson played collegiate football at Angelo State University in 1983 and 1984. The Rams won a Lone Star Conference championship in 1984.
He and his wife, Dyan, have two children, Lee and Loryn.
