Nigel Burton

Nigel Burton (born July 30, 1976) is an American football commentator and the former head coach for the Portland State Vikings college football team.

Playing career Burton grew up in Sacramento where he attended Jesuit High School. He attended the University of the Pacific in 1995, but when the school eliminated its football program the following year, he transferred to the University of Washington, where he graduated in 1999 with a bachelor's degree. He played safety for both schools' football teams. He earned all-academic honors from the Pacific-10 Conference three times at Washington and later earned a masters in business administration at the University of South Florida. He became the second African American head football coach in school history after Ron Stratten, who coached in the early 1970s.

In 2015, Burton joined Pac-12 Networks as an analyst.

Personal Burton is married and has two children.

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