Assistant coaching jobs After playing at Baylor, Linguist spent a season as a
graduate assistant with the Bears. The following year, he coached defensive backs and
special teams at Valdosta State. From 2009 until 2011, he coached
safeties at James Madison. In 2012, he joined the coaching staff at Buffalo for the first time as a defensive backs coach. In 2014, he was hired to coach the secondary at Iowa State. Linguist spent the 2017 season coaching defensive backs at Minnesota. Following the season, he was named an assistant head coach to
P. J. Fleck. However, less than a month later, in January 2018, he left the Golden Gophers to join the coaching staff at Texas A&M. After serving for two years as the
cornerbacks coach at Texas A&M,
Mike McCarthy hired him as the secondary coach of the
Dallas Cowboys, his first job in the
National Football League.
Buffalo Following the
2020 NFL season, Linguist was hired as the co-defensive coordinator at the
University of Michigan. However, on May 7, 2021, he was hired as the head coach at the
University at Buffalo. Despite Buffalo's poor performance in 2021, Linguist's recruiting class for 2022 was described by
Sports Illustrated as the second-best in the
Mid-American Conference. In July 2022, he signed a one-year contract extension. In his second season as head coach, Linguist led the Bulls to a 6–6 record in the regular season, earning an invite to the
2022 Camellia Bowl. UB defeated
Georgia Southern 23–21, earning their first bowl win under Linguist.
Alabama On January 16, 2024, it was reported that Linguist had resigned as the head coach of the
University at Buffalo Bulls in order to join the
Alabama Crimson Tide coaching staff as
Co-Defensive Coordinator and
Defensive Back coach which was confirmed by the University at Buffalo later the same day.[https://www.wkbw.com/sports/college/ub-head-football-coach-maurice-linguist-set-to-leave-for-alabama#:~:text=On%20Tuesday%2C%20the%20university%20released,the%20best%20in%20the%20future. ==Head coaching record==