Carson Hall was promoted to Defensive Line Coach/Run Game Coordinator in January 2025, after serving as the Defensive Line Coach during the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
Strong play from Hall's defensive line unit helped the Hilltoppers earn a berth in the 2024 Conference USA Championship Game and the Boca Raton Bowl. WKU was fourth in CUSA in scoring defense in 2024, allowing an average of 24.6 points per game, and ranked third in the category against league opponents during the regular season at just 20.1 points allowed through those eight games. WKU finished fourth in the league in sacks and were third in the league in turnovers gained in 2024.
Hall coached numerous players to All-Conference USA honors during his second season on The Hill, highlighted by an All-CUSA First Team Defense selection in defensive tackle Hosea Wheeler, who led the league in tackles from a defensive tackle and was also named to the 2024 CUSA Football All-Academic Team and the 2024 Lombardi Award Watch List. Defensive tackle Dallas Walker and defensive end Deante McCray received All-CUSA Honorable Mention status.
Hall joined WKU as the team's Defensive Line Coach in March 2023, after a two-year run at Georgia, where he helped the Bulldogs to a 29-1 record and back-to-back National Championships.
Hall helped lead an aggressive Hilltopper defense in 2023 during his first season with the program. The Hilltoppers recorded 26 takeaways, which led Conference USA and ranked tied for seventh nationally. WKU's 11 fumble recoveries were seventh nationally and the 15 passes intercepted were 15th in the country – marks that ranked first and second in CUSA, respectively. Hall coached defensive tackle Hosea Wheeler to All-Conference USA Second Team honors, while defensive end Deante McCray earned CUSA All-Freshman Team honors. Following the season, nose tackle Kenyonte Davis earned a rookie mini camp invitation from the New York Giants.
He was named a 30Under30 top young coach by 247Sports in 2024.
Prior to his arrival at WKU, Hall helped Georgia go on one of the greatest two-year runs in college football history, winning 29 of 30 games and consecutive National Championships. As Assistant Defensive Line Coach in 2021, Hall helped Georgia go a perfect 12-0 in the regular season before falling to Alabama in the SEC Championship. After defeating Michigan in the Orange Bowl and College Football Playoff Semifinal, the Bulldogs avenged their loss to the Crimson Tide by winning the National Championship by a score of 33-18.
The following season, Hall helped Georgia go a perfect 15-0 with an SEC Championship, College Football Playoff Semifinal and Peach Bowl victory, and a victory over TCU in the National Championship. Georgia's 65-7 championship performance was one of the most dominant in recent history with Hall helping lead the Bulldog defensive line. Hall mentored multiple elite defensive linemen at Georgia, including the trio of Travon Walker, Jordan Davis and Devonte Wyatt, who were all first round picks in the 2022 NFL Draft.
Before joining the staff at Georgia, Hall had a brief stop at LSU where he spent the 2021 spring season with the Tigers as an Assistant Defensive Line Coach. Before joining LSU, he was a Graduate Assistant at Illinois from 2019-20. Hall helped the Illini qualify for a bowl game in his first season, the program's first in five years.
Hall started his coaching career at Valdosta State where he was an assistant coach working with the team's outside linebackers. Valdosta State went a perfect 14-0 that year under Hall's leadership and went on to beat Ferris State to claim the Division II National Championship.
Hall owns a bachelor's degree in sport management from the University of Georgia where he played defensive line from 2015-17. During his time as a player with the Bulldogs, he helped the team go to three bowl games, including the 2018 Rose Bowl and College Football Playoff Semifinal where Georgia beat Oklahoma in double overtime to advance to the National Championship game against Alabama.
Hall is joined in Bowling Green with his wife, Laurel.
